The State Administration Database

Norwegian Building Authority

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1985 Regular founding

Name: National Office of Building Technology and Administration
Short name: BE
Affiliations: Central agency/directorate
Hierarchical level: Highest level
COFOG 06 Housing and community amenities
Main affiliation category: National single organization (without subordinated units)
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2012* Maintenance by reorganization

Change of location; 1/3 of the agency is moved from Oslo to Gjøvik.

01.01.2012 Change of name

Name: Norwegian Building Authority
Short name: Direktoratet for byggkvalitet

On 16 September 2011 it was decided to change the name of the "National Office of Building Technology and Administration" to the "Directorate for building quality". The name change applies from 1 January 2012.

The change is made ​​to give the agency a name that reflects the mission organization, and is easy to communicate.

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.