MAINTAINING ASSET INTEGRITY IN CONTINUOUS PERMAFROST REGIONS 8

A warming environment is a threat to infrastructure built on permafrost. Darren Hughes from Concrete Canvas explains how Concrete on a Roll could help When considering land area, around a quarter of the northern hemisphere has continuous permafrost, that is 23 million km2 where the ground is frozen all year round. This phenomenon is widespread in the Arctic regions of Siberia, Canada, Greenland and Alaska, and even on the floor of the Arctic Ocean as undersea permafrost. The definition of permafrost can be quite complex, but a simple way to think of it is as a layer of soil, rocks […]