• Artificial Thawing of Frozen Ground: A Review 

      Ngo, Phan Thu Huong; Sveen, Svein-Erik; Gjerløw, Eirik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-27)
      Understanding the freezing and thawing processes in porous media such as soils is important, especially in regions experiencing seasonal frost or permafrost. These processes have a wide range of implications as diverse as how to maintain the structural integrity of roads, railways, pipelines, and buildings, to when to plant seeds during the growth season. Thawing of frozen ground is the opposite ...
    • Green Building in the Arctic Region: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Opportunities 

      Ravasio, Lucrezia; Sveen, Svein-Erik; Riise, Raymond (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-10)
      The concept of Green Building refers to environmentally friendly constructions with the target of minimizing the impact on the natural environment through sustainable and efficient use of resources over their life cycle. Since modern buildings are large contributors to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, policies and international strategies intended to reduce the carbon footprint ...
    • Green Buildings in the Arctic region: a literature review 

      Ravasio, Lucrezia; Riise, Raymond; Sveen, Svein-Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)
      Green Buildings are defined as environmental-friendly buildings aimed at minimizing the impact on the natural environment through a sustainable and efficient use of resources over their life-cycle. This is, perhaps, a recently-introduced building concept that is increasingly gaining attention due to the policies and strategies intended to reduce the carbon footprint of conventional buildings, which ...