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the NDEA. The communication strategy of the project suggested that the NDEA shouldmanage issues connected to the public, but the high level of public scrutiny the project wassubjected to made project exclusive resources in this area necessary.It could perhaps come as a surprise that there is assumed to be no direct interaction betweenthe focal project and its owner in classical terms (cf Figure 2). The empirical investigations,however, showed that the Ministry of Defence coordinated its activities with the projectmainly through the NDEA and the End User Committee, which explains why it has beenlabelled as a separate actor B in Figure 2.The End User Committee was made up of representatives from the Ministry of Defence,which in classical terms means that it would be seen as a distinct part of the organisation itstemmed from. Here, however, the resources controlled by, and the activities performed bythe End User Committee is consistent with the view that it represents an actor among otheractors in the network. First of all, the end users have a formal right to be consulted, whichmeans that their impact on the design of the project could be substantial. Secondly, it wasobserved that the communication with the end users took place with the End User Committeeas the main and coordinating link between the focal project and the Ministry of Defence.The new building’s planned location on the historical ground of the Akershus Fortress area 8 ,implicated that the collaboration with cultural heritage authorities was deemed to be importantin order to get the necessary permits to even be allowed to build on the chosen location.Although the planned location of the building was in a “corner” on the outer limits of theAkershus Fortress area, the cultural heritage authorities both on the central and the local level8 The history of the fortress stretches back to the thirteenth century and it represents one ofNorway’s most important cultural-historical landmarks.23