Grindaker
Grindaker is a privately held Norwegian landscape architecture consultancy headquartered in Oslo, employing over 40 landscape architects to deliver urban, public, residential, and cultural landscape projects for public-sector clients, private developers, and cultural institutions across Norway.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1986
- HeadquartersOslo, Norway
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Grindaker does
Grindaker AS is a privately held Norwegian landscape architecture consultancy headquartered at Rådhusgata 25 in central Oslo. The firm positions itself as one of Norway's largest landscape architecture practices and employs over 40 landscape architects with diverse specializations spanning blue-green infrastructure, community and diversity design, environmentally friendly resource use, and transport and mobility planning. Its deliverable set centers on design advisory across the full project lifecycle — from preliminary studies through detailed design to construction follow-up — with named proprietary outputs such as the 145-page Lilleaker Planteveileder planning guide and the Lilleakerbyen Plant Nursery (1,000 indigenous trees).
Grindaker generates revenue as a professional services consultancy through project-based fees negotiated per engagement, with no public pricing. Work is acquired via direct commissions from public and private clients and via architectural competitions, frequently as part of multi-disciplinary joint ventures with architecture firms such as LPO, Filter Arkitekter, BIG, and KIMA Arkitektur. Customer segments are roughly balanced between the Norwegian public sector (municipalities, county councils, Statens vegvesen) and private property developers and cultural institutions (Mustad Eiendom, Høegh Eiendom, Hotel Union AS, Kistefos Museum), with select cross-border competition activity in Sweden.
The firm's competitive position rests on talent density, a portfolio of award-recognized projects (notably the 2025 Bærum Municipality Architecture Prize for Vollsveien 13H), and recurring engagements with anchor clients such as Mustad Eiendom across multiple Lilleakerbyen-adjacent programs. There is no disclosed external funding, parent company, M&A activity, or AI/ML capability in the available source data, and the firm is privately held with no public listing.
Grindaker firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Grindaker
- Legal name
- Grindaker AS
- Website
- https://grindaker.no
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1986
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Grindaker is a privately held Norwegian landscape architecture consultancy headquartered in Oslo, employing over 40 landscape architects to deliver urban, public, residential, and cultural landscape projects for public-sector clients, private developers, and cultural institutions across Norway.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Grindaker industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Landscape Architecture Services
- NAICS
- Landscape Architectural Services (541320)
- SIC
- Services-Engineering Services (8711)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)
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Where Grindaker is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Oslo
- HQ country
- Norway
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
Grindaker business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Landscape Architecture Consulting Services: Professional landscape architecture services for urban spaces, public areas, residential developments, commercial properties, and cultural landscapes. Revenue generated through design consulting fees for projects across all phases from preliminary studies through detailed design and construction follow-up.
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels5 records
Grindaker product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Grindaker provides professional landscape architecture and urban planning consultancy services, delivering design solutions for urban spaces, parks, residential developments, commercial properties, schools, kindergartens, cultural landscapes, and tourist routes. The firm delivers projects across all phases from preliminary studies and competition entries through detailed design and construction follow-up, applying specialized expertise in blue-green infrastructure, ecological design, climate adaptation, inclusive community design, and sustainable resource use.
Product overview
Grindaker is one of Norway's largest landscape architecture firms offering comprehensive landscape architecture services. The company operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Core services include urban space development, landscape planning, park and garden design, with specialized focus areas in community and diversity planning, transport and mobility solutions, environmentally friendly resource planning, and blue-green structures and landscape ecology. Notable specialized offerings include the Lilleaker Planteveileder (Plant Guide) - a 145-page guide for holistic green structure planning, and the Lilleakerbyen Plant Nursery - an initiative to cultivate 1000 indigenous trees. The company employs over 40 landscape architects with diverse backgrounds, educational backgrounds, professional interests, and specialized competencies, enabling work on all types of landscape projects.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Landscape Architecture Services Comprehensive landscape architecture services including urban space design, park planning, garden design, and outdoor area development for public and private sector clients. The firm creates outdoor spaces that inspire and contribute to positive societal development, delivered across all project phases.
- Blue-Green Structures and Landscape Ecology Planning Planning of urban and landscape spaces grounded in natural conditions including local climate, light, soil, bedrock, topography, vegetation, biodiversity, and ecological processes. Focuses on preserving and strengthening native biodiversity and improving landscape ecological connections.
- Community and Diversity Design Services Inclusive design approach creating spaces where people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests can meet through various activities. Includes user participation and co-creation processes for community-oriented landscape projects.
- Transport and Mobility Planning Services Design of smooth, intuitive, and environmentally friendly transport solutions that make walking, cycling, public transport, and shared mobility attractive. Focus on soft traffic and connections to public transport and cycling networks.
- Environmentally Friendly Resource Planning Services Sustainable and innovative solutions using environmentally friendly materials with low emissions, long lifespan, and focus on reuse of materials and circular economy principles in landscape projects.
- Lilleaker Planteveileder (Plant Guide) A comprehensive 145-page guideline document ensuring holistic planning and design of new green structures in the Lilleakerbyen urban development area. Includes landscape ecological strategy, green roofs, riverside restoration, and a plant palette of seven vegetation types. Developed for client Mustad Eiendom.
- Lilleakerbyen Plant Nursery Initiative A local tree nursery initiative within the Lilleakerbyen development project aiming to plant 1,000 native trees cultivated on site, serving as a meeting place and learning arena while creating corridors for local flora and fauna.
Quantifiable outcome
- Bærum municipality architecture prize 2025 awarded for Vollsveien 13H rehabilitation project
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Companies that use Grindaker
Customer profileNamed customers15 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Grindaker technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
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Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature5 records
Grindaker partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
18 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Ghilardi + Hellsten arkitektercoreCollaboration on competition entry for Viken fylkeskommune headquarters and surrounding urban structure in Sandvika. Joint team participated in idea competition.
- Longva arkitektercoreWinning team collaboration on Östersund kommunhus competition. Longva arkitekter and KOHT arkitekter joined with Grindaker to win the competition for new municipal building.
- KOHT arkitektercoreWinning team collaboration on Östersund kommunhus competition. Joint venture with Longva arkitekter and Grindaker won the architectural competition.
- Filter ArkitektercoreCompetition winning team collaboration on Tangvall skolesenter. Filter Arkitekter and Grindaker won the competition together with contractor BRG.
- BIG - Bjarke Ingels GroupcoreLocal partnership role for Kistefos Museum's new The Twist building designed by BIG. Grindaker served as local partner for landscape architecture and museumsbygg project.
- LPO arkitektercoreArchitecture firm collaboration on Helgerudkvartalet project in Sandvika. LPO arkitekter served as the main architect while Grindaker provided landscape architecture services for roof gardens and terraces.
- Asplan Viak AScoreCollaboration as pre-project landscape architect on Helgerudkvartalet. Provides multi-disciplinary consultancy services including landscape architecture.
- Flyt landskap ASminorServed as landscape architect consultant during construction phase on Helgerudkvartalet project.
- Arne Henriksen Arkitekter AScoreArchitecture firm collaboration on Hauklandstranda project along National Tourist Route Lofoten. Grindaker assisted with establishment of rest area, parking, pathways and landscape restoration.
- Arkadia landskapcoreCollaboration on Hotel Union Øye historical garden project. Arkadia landskap, represented by Ingeborg Mellgren-Mathiesen, worked jointly with Grindaker to design historically accurate Victorian garden.
- KIMA ArkitekturcoreArchitecture firm collaboration on Vollsveien 13H rehabilitation project. KIMA Arkitektur served as main architect for the historic Granfoss bruk transformation.
- Naturrestaurering AScoreCollaboration on Lilleakerbyen plant guide project. Naturrestaurering AS provided expertise in ecological restoration and native plant species for the comprehensive 145-page guideline.
- LPOcoreArchitecture firm collaboration on Lilleakerbyen plant guide project.
- AlabminorArchitecture firm collaboration on Lilleakerbyen plant guide project.
- CivitasminorConsultant collaboration on Lilleakerbyen urban development project providing urban planning expertise.
- Aas JakobsenminorConsultant collaboration on Lilleakerbyen urban development project.
- ViaNovaminorConsultant collaboration on Lilleakerbyen urban development project.
- Rever og DragecoreArchitecture firm collaboration on Farstadsanden project along Atlantic Ocean Road. Grindaker worked with Rever og Drage and Norconsult from preliminary design through completion.
Scale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Grindaker competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- White Arkitekter: Major Scandinavian architecture practice with a dedicated landscape and urban design team. Competes for the same Nordic public-sector and developer-led landscape commissions as part of broader architectural bids.
- Asplan Viak: Norwegian multi-disciplinary consultancy with an in-house landscape architecture practice. Already a documented partner of Grindaker on Helgerudkvartalet, it represents a competitor that can absorb landscape work into broader engineering-led bids.
- Norconsult: Norway's largest engineering consultancy with landscape and urban planning capabilities. Competes for landscape commissions on large infrastructure and urban development projects through integrated, multi-disciplinary offerings.
- Rambøll: Large Nordic engineering and design consultancy with landscape architecture and urban design capabilities. Competes for landscape work as part of integrated multi-disciplinary bids on infrastructure and urban development projects.
- Snøhetta: Internationally renowned Norwegian architecture and design firm with a substantial landscape architecture practice. Competes for the same high-profile public and cultural landscape commissions (e.g., Kistefos-adjacent work) but as part of a much broader multi-disciplinary portfolio.
Direct peers
- SLA: Danish landscape architecture and urban design firm of comparable scale and profile. Operates as a direct Nordic peer in landscape architecture consulting for urban development, climate adaptation, and biodiversity-driven design, with a similar project-based professional services model serving both public and private clients.
- InSitu Landskap: Norwegian landscape architecture firm operating in the same domestic market with overlapping service offerings in urban development, residential projects, and public space design.
- Østengen & Bergo: Established Norwegian landscape architecture practice with a similar full-service profile (urban design, parks, recreation, ecological design). Directly comparable on customer segments (municipalities and developers) and project typologies.
- Bjørk Bjørk Landskap: Norwegian landscape architecture consultancy competing head-to-head with Grindaker in the same domestic market. Provides comparable services for urban spaces, residential developments, and public-sector projects, making it the closest geographic direct competitor.
- LAND: Copenhagen-based landscape architecture consultancy with a Nordic footprint comparable to Grindaker's Norwegian focus. Specializes in urban landscape, climate adaptation, and nature-based solutions, overlapping directly with Grindaker's blue-green infrastructure and ecological design practice.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Grindaker social profiles
Digital presenceGrindaker compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
Grindaker financial estimates
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Funding rounds
Investors
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Grindaker M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Grindaker
What does Grindaker do?
Grindaker provides professional landscape architecture and urban planning consultancy services, delivering design solutions for urban spaces, parks, residential developments, commercial properties, schools, kindergartens, cultural landscapes, and tourist routes. The firm delivers projects across all phases from preliminary studies and competition entries through detailed design and construction follow-up, applying specialized expertise in blue-green infrastructure, ecological design, climate adaptation, inclusive community design, and sustainable resource use.
Is Grindaker a public or private company?
Grindaker is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Grindaker founded?
Grindaker was founded in 1986. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Grindaker based?
Grindaker is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, in the Europe region.
How does Grindaker make money?
One revenue line is on record: landscape Architecture Consulting Services.
Who are Grindaker's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are White Arkitekter, Asplan Viak, Norconsult, Rambøll and Snøhetta. Direct peers are SLA, InSitu Landskap, Østengen & Bergo, Bjørk Bjørk Landskap and LAND.
Does Grindaker have an API?
No public API is recorded for Grindaker.
What industry is Grindaker in?
Grindaker's product category is Landscape Architecture Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAHAKAC, Landscape Architecture & Site Design. Its NAICS code is 541320 and its SIC code is 8711.