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Girls at the University - IGE Day 2019

IGEday stands for Introduce a Girl to Engineering day and is an annual initiative from Womengineer to increase interest in technology and engineering among girls. Companies, organizations and universities around Sweden are encouraged to attend this day, where they will be able to invite girls for a day of activities and give them an insight into how it is to work as an engineer.

In the media: The buildings of the future

We have built a "highway" for that and combined with the pace at the factory, so we can display the right information at the right moment out of the project. We want to extend this to the building site so that we can cover the entire production chain, "says Helena Lidelöw, Construction Manager at Lindbäck's Building.

Architecture as summer job

This summer, high school students from Luleå have had the opportunity to put their mark on the future development of the residential area Kronen in the municipality of Luleå through a course in architecture and community development. It has been hard work and the creativity has flowed.

Building materials being tested

On the university campus in Luleå, a number of miniature houses have raised curiosity and speculations about beehives or dog houses. Alexandra Andersson Wikström, PhD-student in Urban Water Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, is working on the project where a number of building materials are being tested to gain knowledge on which may contribute with pollutants from the urban environment to stormwater.

In the media: Radical Innovation

What are the processes of innovation within the infrastructure sector? It examines Johan Larsson, Luleå University of Technology, the dissertation Managing Radical Innovation in the Swedish Infrastructure Sector. A Study of Industrialized Construction.

Powerful tool for building geographic analysis

Tim Johansson, PhD in Construction Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, is working with the 4D visualization. He has developed a powerful tool for geographic analysis regarding the need for renovation and energy efficiency of apartment buildings.

Future senior housing

New concepts for future senior, older - and sheltered housing should be developed by researchers in the construction, architecture and Health Sciences at Luleå University. With the future referred to 2050 as of today's technology developing rate there is room for futuristic visions.

Youth Architecture Project

During the summer, 12 youth has been employed to develop ideas for an interesting project in the municipality of Luleå. They have developed concept sketches and architectural proposals for a new travel center in the City of Lulea. The work has been supervised by students at Luleå University of Technology.

Published:27 February 2016

Updated: 11 October 2019

By:IT

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