Engineering Resource Library Available
Canada-France Ground Freezing Project
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Les White
Permafrost Environmental Consulting
E-mail: white [at] permafrost.ca
Phone: 613-746-4422
URL: http://www.permafrost.ca
The Canada-France Ground Freezing Project was launched in 1981 and
finished in 1994. Over this twelve-year period, six long-term buried
chilled pipeline frost heave test cycles were conducted at a research
laboratory operated by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) in Caen, France. This project successfully highlighted the
significant challenges of the construction and performance of gas
pipelines in cold regions characterized by permafrost-affected terrain.
Permafrost Environmental Consulting, a cold regions research company,
has over the past five years undertaken the task of finding and
preserving this legacy of research through the retrieval of all raw data
produced from the six experiments. Six databases containing raw data
sets for each of the ground freezing experiments and an accompanying
resource library consisting of a fourteen-volume set of reports have
been produced.
All six databases and their accompanying resource libraries will be
released on 30 September 2006. Universities, libraries, research
institutes, corporations, governments, and regulatory bodies that are
stakeholders in the development and operation of northern gas pipelines
can acquire these databases by contacting:
Dr. Les White
Permafrost Environmental Consulting
E-mail: white [at] permafrost.ca
Phone: 613-746-4422
URL: http://www.permafrost.ca
*** Please note that the engineering resource library consisting of a
fourteen volume set of reports complete with a user manual containing
data file indexes for the six databases can now be purchased for
$5,000.00 CDN.
Upon request, corporations, governments, research institutes, and
universities may purchase individual data files and databases.
A portion of the sales from these databases will be used to fund an
endowment for a northern research scholarship at Carleton University.