Nominate a mining innovation for the Swedish Mining Innovation Award

Now is the time to nominate for the Swedish Mining Innovation Award! The award, which was instituted last year, is awarded by the national strategic innovation program Swedish Mining Innovation.

In the media: Simulation of filling pond behavior

The project deals with an alternative method for sampling in dams, where it may be difficult to collect samples to determine the properties of the materials. Instead of destructive sampling, the focus is on utilizing measurement data.

Unique ice research in laboratory

Researchers within the research groups building materials and geotechnical engineering are currently conducting a completely unique ice research where natural crushed ice from Luleå harbor has been collected for testing in a lab environment. They want to investigate which forces and movements are mo...

Unique snow igloo was inaugurated at the university

The inauguration of this year's igloo building, designed and built by students at Luleå University of Technology, attracted both students and the general public. The igloo will now be open and available for booking during the rest of the winter season.

New research on best ways to store snow

The winter sports holiday is approaching, but parts of Sweden have not had any meteorological winter or snow this season. In a new study, researchers at Luleå University of Technology have investigated the best insulation materials for snow storage.

In the media: Test dam with built-in faults for research to make dams safer

To be better at finding faults in power plant dams, Vattenfall's research department in Älvkarleby has built a dam with built-in faults.

Jan Laue receives ICE Telford Award 2019

Jan Laue received the prestigious Telford Premium Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers, which acknowledges the best works published in the ICE journals. The ceremony was held in Westminster, London, on 4 October 2019.

How does the mine add value even after mining?

For the second year in a row, Luleå University of Technology organized a seminar in collaboration with Svemin, LKAB, Boliden, SIP STRIM and other companies, on the theme of how mining areas can be used in a new business way on the day mining is stopped. There was great interest in the seminar.

Swedish Mining Innovation Award

SIP STRIM Swedish Mining Innovation Award recognizes an innovation, project, organization, individual or other that is extremely important for innovation in Swedish mining.

In the media: Microplastics from artificial soccer fields small environmental problem

Previous estimates of the potential spread of plastic material from artificial turf may have been overestimated up to 50 times.

In the media: Fossil-free transport chains for soil and rock masses

Fossil-free transport chains for soil and rock masses in urban environment. Together with Ecoloop, Luleå University of Technology, the Volvo Group and Bellman's haulage and contracting, the City of Stockholm's development office and traffic office will try to increase the cargo capacity per car from...

Luleå University of Technology's research in report from NASA

Professor Nadhir Al-Ansari's research on the dam in Mosul is used in NASA Observatory's report "Reservoir Swells Upstream of Mosul"

In the media: Unique artificial turf in Kalmar should prevent the spread of microplastics

This soccer turf is part of a research project and is followed with interest from large parts of Europe, says PO Johansson, who is the operations manager for sports bathing and outdoor life in Kalmar municipality.

In the media: Congratulations to the licentiate degree Ingrid

Recently, a licentiate degree seminar was held at Luleå University of Technology when Ingrid da Silva defended her doctoral work on how large hydraulic gradients can be allowed in different types of moraine material to ensure dust safety.

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 ...

Published:26 October 2013
Updated: 14 May 2020
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