Sustainable Infrastructure

Sustainable infrastructure seeks to maximize connectivity while minimizing resource use.  This is achieved by forecasting future conditions and risks, developing better construction materials and processes, improving maintenance practices, reusing and recycling materials, and evaluating economic and environmental costs from a lifecycle perspective.  

The long-term goal of the Sustainable Infrastructure project is to contribute to the design, planning, positioning and construction of new types of infrastructure, and advance the refurbishment, management, and deconstruction practices for existing infrastructure.

Strategic Focus Areas

  • Forecasting sustainable infrastructure
  • Future materials and technology for construction and management
  • Vulnerability and safety of critical infrastructure

 


 

Transportation Network

Buildings and Structures

Hydraulic and Environmental

Energy Production and Distribution

Codes and Regulations 

Sustainability Indicators

 

Sustainability Indicators

 

Sustainability Indicators

 

Sustainability Indicators

 

Climate Change and Consequences 

 

Bridge design for harsh climatesInsulation Materials

Dams and hydraulic construction

Bio-retention for stormwater

 

Risks, Safety and Security

  

 

 

 

Fiber reinforced concrete

Prediction models for aging

 

Vulnerability in water supply

Probabilistic modeling

Landslides

 

Facility Management

 

Future construction materials

   

Lifecycle Planning and Recycling

 

 

 

Environmental indicators

 

 

 

Building stock modeling

LCA of infrastructure

System dynamics

Carbon neutral settlements

 

 

 

 

TNCR
BSCC
HERSS
EPDFM
 LC

Key Contacts

Per Jostein Hovde,
Professor
Dept. Civil and Transport Engineering

Rolf André Bohne
Associate Professor
Dept. Civil and Transport Engineering