Morphology of Tigris River inside Baghdad City

Licentiate seminar in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Ammar Adel Ali

The Bergforsk Awards 2013

The Bergforsk Awards for best thesis, licentiate and doctoral thesis in 2013 was presented at the Stads Hotel in Luleå.

New website launched at LTU

The new website is a collection of reports and research on the subject of "Secondary materials in a sustainable society"

Visit from Baghdad

A delegation from the University of Al-Mustansiriyah in Baghdad, Iraq, visited LTU last week. It is a further step in the cooperation process LTU has with the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq to develop and stabilize Iraq´s competence after years of dictatorship.

People without land

Dr. Dilan Roshani is an old LTU student from the early 90s studying Geo Science here on campus. When he now returns as the Vice President of the University of Koya, Kurdistan, it is to lecture on the possibilities of collaboration and exchange students.

For the benefit of the nation

Nadhir Al-Ansari, researcher in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has by the State of Iraq been awarded for outstanding research for the benefit of the Iraq nation.

In the media: Local storage provides environmental benefits

Tyresö municipality in cooperation with Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering project Optimass.

OptiMass - Recycle soil and rock masses save the environment in big cities

Rock masses blasted away in large construction projects as tunnels, roads etc creates problems in big cities. Rock masses are often transported long distance or are moved several times because there is no space in the city to deposit the masses. Systems to reduce environmental effects and facilitate the reuse of rock masses is now being developed by researchers at Luleå University of Technology in collaboration with the municipality of Stockholm, construction companies, The Transport Administration and Formas.

Film about Avalanche Research

Vital technology reduces avalanche danger

One for Sweden new type of monitoring stations to facilitate avalanche forecasts are tested for the first time against satellites by researchers at Luleå University of Technology. The measuring station was recently placed in the Lapland mountains in an area where both residents and winter tourists seriously suffer from tremendously powerful, so-called slush avalanches.

LTU on a visit in Iraq by invitation of UNESCO

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering has had a close relationship for a long time with several universities and government agencies in Iraq.

In the media: Sven Knutsson on mining accident in Finland

We build dams in a different way in Sweden.

In the media: Jenny Greberg in deep mines

Swedish radio interview with Jenny Greberg, Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering.

In the media: Stored snow

Researcher Nina Lintzén from the Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering interviewed on Swedish Television.

Environmental technologies and new business opportunities

On October 24, North Wastewater Infrastructure arranges a seminar where environmental technologies and new business opportunities are in the spotlight.

Licentiate seminar Saleh Zakaria

On June 8, 2012 presented Saleh Zakaria his essay "Rain Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation at Sinjar District in Northwest Iraq"

Minister Visit from Iraq

LTU was visited on Thursday and Friday (24 and 25 May) by representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Iraq.

Bergsforsk Days 2012

Three scholars from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering were Awarded for Best PhD Thesis, Dissertation and Thesis.

Workshop on frost damaged roads

In Sweden there are several thousands of miles of smaller roads which form a very important part of society´s communication system.

Pay back - Conditions for researchers from Mexico

Universidad de Sonora in northern Mexico is the home university for graduate student Juan Rodriguez. A year ago he moved with his wife and two year daughter to Lulea for a PhD.

In the media: Debate on Uranium Weapons

Scientists: May cause cancer and birth defects - Swedish soldiers may be affected.

In the News: Roland Pusch, adjunct professor

Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

In the News: Iinternational conference on SBN

LANDFILLS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: Iraqi uranium research in Luleå.

Waste management and depleted uranium topics in workshop

How can you safely store hazardous waste in landfills over time and how can it be possible to isolate the depleted uranium from weapons and ammunition, used in the Iraq war. That was two issues that dominated a workshop recently at Luleå University of Technology. The workshop was attended, among others, by President of the Iraqi Parliament and the country's environment minister

Mining Dams and Dam Safety

The Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering i with Sven Knutsson at the head has completed a contract teaching for dam owners, contractors and consultants.