News at the department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
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Smart Design, Control, and Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage
The Juvelen building in Uppsala. Photo: Skanska Published Aug 12, 2025Amirmohammad Behzadi at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, will publicly defend his doctoral thesis on 28 August 2025.
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KTH launches new centre for total defence
The new KTH Centre for Total Defence will take an active responsibility in building knowledge and capacity to meet the threats and challenges of the future. Photo: Mostphotos Published Jun 18, 2025Amid increasing security challenges and a changing geopolitical landscape, KTH is establishing a Centre for Total Defence with the aim of coordinating, developing and highlighting research and educati...
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KTH and Skanska tackle society's challenges together
Examples of Skanska's projects: Högaliden wind farm, Electrolux' headquarters, final repository for short-lived radioactive waste in Forsmark and Subway extension, Nacka. Photos and illustrations from Skanska Published May 07, 2025Since the beginning of the year, Fredrik Johansson has been KTH's partnership manager for Skanska. The ambition is to strengthen collaboration in both education and research to maximize the benefits o...
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Building safety from the ground up
Gunilla Franzén, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, works to ensure that the foundations of a building - soil, rock and water - are up to scratch. (Photo: Private) Published Apr 14, 2025Through pioneering work, she has contributed to increased safety in our built environments - from houses to roads and bridges. Gunilla Franzén, geotechnical safety expert, has been awarded an honorary...
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Yue Wang has received an IAWS award for excellence in PhD research
Published Jan 14, 2025Dr. Yue Wang, KTH Building Materials, was recently awarded by the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) with third place in the 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Prize. This is a prestigious award giv...
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Former PhD student awarded the Best Paper 2023
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"We Swedes need to get our house in order"
Floods in Sweden are causing more and more damage. The picture shows an incident in Hallsberg in August this year (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Nov 10, 2023Embankments and motorways collapse. Damage from extreme weather events is getting worse while knowledge of how to protect ourselves from them is lagging behind. Johan Silfwerbrand, professor in concre...
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Industry night with former PhDs
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Seminar - Sensor based assessment of structural condition and safety
Published May 12, 2023We will present ongoing projects in the area and get insights into "what’s going on". Discuss how the industry can together implement results from ongoing projects. Discuss ideas and future needs for ...
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“Driverless vehicles of the future could have an adverse impact on human health”
“As a society, we need to think about how we actually want to use autonomous technology. We can’t ban motor traffic, it does have a place after all. But pedestrian and cycle traffic has one too, and it has positive side effects,” says KTH researcher Erik Almlöf. Published Nov 09, 2022If autonomous vehicles become commonplace on our roads in the future, fewer people will walk or cycle while emissions will increase, according to a new research study. “More people will take the car ...
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Telford Premium award till Carl Wersäll
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He is planning a new student competition about self-sufficiency
Foto: Pixabay / Pexels Published Mar 18, 2021Zeev Bohbot is a teacher and Programme Director for the Degree Programme in Constructional Engineering and Design and the Degree Programme in Construction Management. He has worked at KTH since 2009 a...
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The School of Architecture the Built Environment rises in QS Subject Rankings 2021
Published Mar 03, 2021In the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, KTH and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment have once again placed high in several subject areas. Architecture / Built environme...
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Article awarded RILEM's Outstanding Paper award
Published Feb 03, 2021The article "Vibration-induced aggregate segregation in asphalt mixtures. Mater Struct (2020) 53:27" by Feng Chen, Denis Jelagin & Manfred N. Partl has been awarded an Outstanding Paper award by journ...
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Several of the school's researchers amongst top 2% in the world according to new citation ranking
Foto: Pixabay / Pexels Published Dec 10, 2020Fourteen researchers from the School of Architecture and the Built Environment have been ranked amongst the world's top 2% in a new article from Stanford University, published in the journal PLoS Biol...
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Bacteria in the air visualised in hospitals
Published Mar 16, 2020KTH researchers are now using virtual reality (VR) to visualise bacteria in the air. “We visualise particle movement in indoor air and pollutants in operating rooms via so-called supercomputer simula...
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Exhibition with timber bridge models
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Creepy Christmas
Published Oct 30, 2019This year Road2Science will reintroduce its annual competition "Creepy Christmas" where we make a Christmas tree of asphalt and let people guess how much it will deform before we have our Open House (...
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Growing concern for the sustainability of Swedish bridges
Published Oct 03, 2019After the recent bridge collapse in Taiwan, there are concerns that similar incidents will happen in Sweden.
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The Nordic Steel Construction Conference (NSCC)
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