Aarhus University would like to congratulate all the newly graduated MSc and BSc engineering students.

In collaboration with the construction industry, three engineering students are working on a massive CLT slab in a push to replace climate-intensive materials such as concrete. The aim of their experiments is to identify the dynamic properties of the deck and to understand how rigidity affects comfort and hopefully to help companies optimise processes and reduce resource wastage in the future.

Buildings are responsible for a large percentage of anthropogenic carbon emissions. In any kind of sustainable future, this percentage must be reduced drastically. Fortunately, this is possible, but it requires research and development and closer collaboration across the sector, says Steffen Petersen, who is a new professor at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Aarhus University.