David Chapman in international jury

David Chapman, a researcher in architecture at Luleå Technical University, was part of the international jury for Cosentino Design Challenge 13 2019 in Spain.

Workshop in the Multifuctional datacenter project

During Wednesday May 22 Cristina Ramos Cáceres and Marcus Sandberg visited the datacenter operator Acon i Lycksele and arranged a workshop..

How do we build climate-smart societies in the Arctic environment?

9 May. 2019 12:00 – 13:00 , Vetenskapens hus:

Welcome to a popular science lunch lecture in The Arctic Five's director, where researchers from Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University present challenges and solutions linked to sustainable community building in the Arctic region.

Welcome to the opening of the snow igloo!

22 Mar. 2019 14:00 – 15:00 , Between Teknikens hus and the D-House, by the fountain:

Now opens the snow igloo that the students have built in the middle of the university area, welcome!

Second place in architectural competition

Anton Magnusson is doing his degree project in architecture at White Architects and has together with his colleague Hugo Hardell participated in the competition "Steel Race Reuse" which resulted in a prestigious second place. The competition task was to produce a proposal for an entrance portal to t...

Architecture on Mars

Anna Schylander has, in her thesis work on the civil engineering program in architecture, chosen to explore the possibility of building a house on the planet Mars. In her building, existing technology, Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), is used for solar cells as an energy source.

In the media: LCA in soil mechanics, are we ready?

The construction sector today accounts for a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden. Two major factors are the production of building materials and the use of work machines in the production stage. When building a building, large amounts of resources such as concrete, steel, land us...

Small-scale climate smart, ecological and sustainable communities

The district of Porsön next to the Luleå University of Technology campus will be part of a case study, becoming a so-called "living lab", for a new study in Architecture and Construction Management and Building Technology in how smaller neighborhoods or communities in cold climate can become more se...

In the media: If you do not have spikes, you have to walk as an elephant

If you do not have spikes under your feet, you will go as an elephant, says researcher Glenn Berggård at Luleå University of Technology.

In the media: Suggestions to improve accessibility in Kiruna

The assignment was to present measures to create good accessibility * to Kiruna's new center that is adapted for the climate in Kiruna, and which works both in the near future and in a longer perspective. The assignment has been carried out in collaboration with Luleå University of Technology.

Published:31 October 2013
Updated: 14 June 2019
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