Aquaculture & Hatchery

Land-based aquaculture is capital intensive and operationally complex. Water treatment, biosecurity and environmental control are not systems added after the building is drawn. They are the primary drivers from day one.

We design aquaculture facilities from compact coastal hatcheries to large inland RAS installations. Phased expansions add new production stages to operating sites without breaking biological continuity; structural grids, pipe corridors and water treatment are sized for the next stage from the start.

New smolt and post-smolt facilities combine production flexibility, biosecurity zoning and serviceability across species and delivery windows. Innovation and education centres bring industry, research and training together under one roof.

Three of Norway’s largest smolt facilities were designed here: SalMar Tjuin at 17,000 square metres, described as the world’s largest at construction start, NRS Dåfjord at 15,800 square metres, and Lerøy Belsvik, with 14 million smolt a year and 98 per cent water recirculation.

Serviceability, biosecurity isolation and staged capacity growth are resolved at the drawing stage, not as afterthoughts. In land-based projects, building and process are usually separate contracts. Our role is to hold them together: the layout is drawn around tank halls and water treatment, and carried through permitting to a finished, operating facility.