Peter Möllerström and Bjorn Evers is expectant fire engineers who recently presented his thesis: a more environmentally friendly and cost effective way to expose ammunition to fire. This may sound somewhat crazy but for Bofors Test Center this is the everyday practice.
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Students from LTU's architecture program was recognized recently when they exhibited their projects at WOOD 2013 Virserums art gallery in Småland. The energy, housing and the city is the theme of this year's träutställning who want to see a sustainable society where the wood in all its forms is included in construction.
Ulf Wickstrom, Professor of Steel Structures, is a passionate mentor for graduate students working at Luleå University of Technology. It is within the programs Master Programme in Fire Engineering and Fire Protection Engineer Ulf Wickstrom work.
This year, between 27-29 May, visit near Mo i Rana and both tunnels, roadworks and rock cuts have been studied.
First-year students in the education MSc Civil Engineering are invited to Norway to study tunneling.
More photos from the project.
Scientists Helena Johnsson and Kajsa Simu are studying the quality of Swedish construction. They see a trend towards increased collaboration and improved communication between all providers in the construction process as necessary. Otherwise Swedish building industry won´t cope with the fierce competition from foreign construction companies. Old and attached structures are, however, major obstacles to change.
Mats Emborg professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering in Windpower News..
The programme content is designed to meet the demand for specialist and is aimed at people who lead Swedish builders.
Construction engineers are the winners. They have had the best wages of all engineering categories.
Peter Collin, Professorat the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering at Luleå University of Technology and Marketing Director at Ramboll, visit high schools to inform students about the construction industry.
It is entirely possible to build more energy efficient than what is done today and thus contribute to reducing energy consumption, but the rules need to be revised. It appears from a new doctoral thesis at Luleå University who studied the barriers and driving forces in the construction process in order to find a more sustainable and energy efficient construction.
This project is now launched by Professor Kristina L. Nilsson within research subject Architecture. The results of the research will be useful for both large and small property owners
Star in Northland Basketball and working at LTU.
The Geosektion yearlyaward for the best teacher - Adéliepriset. This year, Helena Johnsson received the award handed out at Geolusse Ball.
Sari Ekblom received er engineering degree at LTU Civil Engineering 1996. Since then she has worked in the construction industry, where she eventually worked for the NCC as project manager for the construction of the much talked about Facebook Server Halls in Luleå. In the summer of 2012 she got an offer and a challenge Sari Ekblom could not turn down - As CEO of Lulea Bus Transport AB.
The Fire Conference is organized by the Fire Protection Association and the Swedish Association of Fire Officers. This year it was held in Uppsala, Sweden.
Gabriel Sas from the Division of Structural and Construction Engineering is engaged a major new project in Norway.
Tore Lundmark is the head designer at Ramboll consulting and expert in steel construction and bridge construction.
Ramböll´s Robert Hällmark and Mattias Nilsson both work on bridge constrction in Luleå. Recently they presented their licentiate in bridge construction at Luleå University of Technology.
There is perilously poor quality in building structures in Sweden today. So bad that it causes death. The Government must take urgent action. This is the theme in an article published on DN debate 6 november
Serious errors in planning. Structures collapse and Sweden are being developed into a construction technology third world country.
Ove Lagerquist, Professor of Structural and Construction Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, LTU, is this year´s recipient of the Silver Beam.
The research project HISTWIN, one of Professor Milan Veljkovics research on high-strength steel structurse, is selected as one of ten success stories funded by the EU program RFCS.
Vinnova take help of LTU researchers in the field of industrial construction in order to formulate an agenda for future construction.
In conjunction with his 96th birthday on September 2 Sven Thysell shared grants for Structural Engineering technology research at Luleå University of Technology.
During 2011/2012, Luleå University of Technology has created a Lab funding to provide university research an extra kick. Good infrastructure with new labs and new equipment gives LTU researchers better terms. An example of support from the lab fund is for new equipment to test diffrent material's durability in the knee and hip prostheses.
New knowledge in order to increase the carrying capacity of railways, particularly for the benefit of the growing mining industry, has been investigated in a new doctoral dissertation at Luleå University.
Students are given the opportunity to courses based on virtual building practices throughout their education. The need and the response from the industry is clear. It´s about new methods and new technology, BIM - Building Informatiom Modeling and VDC - Virtual Design and Construction.
Milan Veljkovic, a professor at LTU, hope and believe that an EU-funded projects with movable building modules can be the future for student residences, but also save for the Iron Fields.
Arto Puurula have studied a 50 year old railway bridge in Örnsköldsvik, which was charged to the breakning point in July 2006 when the new Bothnia Line was built. A new type of carbon fiber reinforcement of the bridge was tested simultaneously.
Some exciting student projects were presented on 25 May at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering.
The construction industry has tried to emulate the industry and move hustillverkningen to the factory.
One day course in the new building regulations with a focus on the new rules, their implementation and control. Michael Strömgren, who led the review process of Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning held a full day course.
2012 04 23 - Lulea University of Technology. Olivier Vasart opposed on Bjorn Uppfeldt´s licentiate thesis and participated to the subsequent workshop by a video link, ad hoc established, between LTU and ArcelorMittal, Luxembourg.
The Master Programme in Civil Engineering organized mini-course building a bridge to high school Kasseler. A creative task with technical complications.
A new mentoring program has started at LTU, via LTU- career. It is free to all students who passed at least half their university educationt to apply to the program. In the first round, fifteen students were admitted. Everyone has now a personal mentor in business or public sector.
In the world there are only a dozen. It's about a fire oven available at Luleå University of Technology. Because the fire oven tests both how the load and fire affect the construction and structural elements of steel, concrete and wood, advanced measurements are to be made.
The Yearly Bridge Contruction Competetion completed at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering.
Visiting Professor Will Hughes a passion to change the terms of the construction industry. Will Hughes, researcher at the University of Reading, where 90 percent of the research is of international standard.
Professor Dr Yongming Tu, Southeast University, Nanjing, PR China, has been appointed as Guest Professor in Structural Engineering at Luleå University by Vice Chancellor Johan Sterte.
Particularly suitable for student accommodation, a house in modules, built on a steel skeleton, which is easy to build and move, especially in urban areas. It is the idea of a new large EU funded research project led by Luleå University of Technology, in cooperation with, among others Kalix Company Part AB.
