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.

Call for CAMM2 high-risk projects 2020

CAMM2 announces funding for so-called high-risk projects aiming at increasing interdisciplinary research. Submission of proposals to Betty Christakopoulou - betty.christakopoulou@ltu.se - electronically as pdf file no later than 2019-10-18

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 ...

In the media: Best thesis project for Viktor Wiklund, Luleå University of Technology

When the Swedish Geotechnical Cociety presented this year's best degree projects in connection with the Annual General Meeting. Four degree projects had also been nominated this year.

Igloo building in the middle of the campus

The students on the course snow and ice at Luleå University of Technology are working with building the snow igloo in the middle of the university campus in Luleå. The purpose of the project is to learn how to construct a snow building. The igloo is built using an inflatable igloo tent, which is 6 m...

In the media: Surface stabilization of road terrace to reduce the influence of freezing

Fine-grained soils are mostly not suitable as terraces under road or railway banks or other major structures. For clay soils, one of the main causes is their often soft consistency with low deformation modulus, but for silt soils their frost sensitivity

Published:26 October 2013
Updated: 7 October 2019
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