Founded 6 June 1907
The Norwegian Association of Municipal Engineers works for the total and sustainable development of the municipal sector, with particular emphasis being placed on technology, infrastructure, the environment and competence.
The municipal engineering professional field is considered to include the following areas: administration and management, waste and recycling, buildings and properties, fire, safety and emergency preparedness, building permit issuance, physical planning, the outdoor environment, park and sports facilities, mapping and geodata, water and waste water and roads and transport.
Members
Being a member of NKF provides you and your employer with access to opportunities for professional updating and follow up within all the municipal engineering fields. You will receive the magazine KOMMUNALTEKNIKK (11 issues a year) and newsletters and you will be entitled to member discounts for courses, seminars, topic booklets and admittance to the Miljø & Teknikk / Kommunalteknikk trade fair. NKF has 2,400 members. The majority of our members are employees of municipal engineering organizations. However, many of our members are also consultants and suppliers of goods and services. NKF is open to all interested in municipal engineering.
NKF is lead by a committee in which the county divisions and professional forums are represented.
Management
The association is managed by the executive council. NKF’s secretariat has 6 employees at offices located in Oslo.
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Professional forums
NKF has county divisions which primarily act as professional forum for the engineering organizations in municipalities. The county divisions organize professional conferences/meetings which primarily aim to provide members with opportunities for professional development through experience exchange and through contact and cooperation between municipalities.
NKF has organised and established professional forum in which the following are chairpersons:
· Administration and management
· Building permit issuance More
· Physical planning
· Public buildings and properties
· Roads and transport
NKF’s professional forums arrange meetings of small groups of professionals from municipalities, who are particularly interested in development within a specific professional field, in a network. The network groups primarily work with the development of the group member’s competence and organisation. In the largest network, building permit issuance, 320 municipalities participate in 35 network groups. Within public buildings and properties, 260 municipalities participate in 27 network groups. Each network group has 2-4 meetings a year.
Agreements
NKF has cooperation agreements with The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. An important part of this cooperation is focussed on NKF providing assistance to KS in association with special interest and consultative issues, report work and intermediary and lobbying work aimed at central authorities and other municipal engineering organisations. NKF has profiled the organization well through assignments carried out for the ministry on operation and maintenance costs of municipal buildings and roads.
NORVAR
NKF has cooperation agreements with NORVAR - Norwegian Water and Wastewater BA. NKF and NORVAR have established a non-profit foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to publish Water and Waste Water/Environment Standards and to cooperate within the operation of network groups within water and waste water.
The Magazine KOMMUNALTEKNIKK
NKF publishes the professional journal KOMMUNALTEKNIKK, a journal for technology and the surrounding and natural environment. Kommunalteknikk is issued 11 times a year and has a circulation of 6,800 copies. The magazine is today the most important publication for communicating experience between colleagues in the industry. The association also publishes a series of topic booklets and guidelines. The topic booklets are prepared by a professional forum and are sent free of charge to members of the forum. More
The trade fair Miljø & Teknikk / Kommunalteknikk
NKF together with KS arranges the trade fair Miljø & Teknikk / Kommunalteknikk. In 2005 the trade fair had 222 exhibitors in the 9,360 m2 exhibition hall, 336 visitors participated in 9 seminars and the trade fair was attended by 4,173 visitors. The final of the ‘Norway’s Best Drinking Water’ competition was held and Norway’s best outdoor space was chosen.
Nordic and international participation
NKF participates in Nordisk Kommunalteknisk Samarbeidskomite, in the Scandinavian magazine cooperation and is an associate member of the International Federation of Municipal Engineers - IFME.
NKF has issued a number of topic booklets. Examples of these are:
o Best practice cleaning - National quality goals
o Paving stones and flagstones of concrete - a guideline
o Contract management
o Better use of school areas
o Building automation and integration in municipal buildings
o Key figures for time and resource usage in planning and construction cases
o Municipal property management - a brief introduction for elected representatives
o Key figures for building permit cases
o Key figures for municipal planning work
o Maintenance standards from a bicycle perspective
o Excavation work in public roads
o Process code, operation and maintenance standards for municipal roads
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