Data Sets Now Available
Canada-France Ground Freezing Project
For further information, please contact:
Les White
Permafrost Environmental Consulting
E-mail: whitetlw [at] sympatico.ca
The Canada-France Ground Freezing Project was launched in 1981 and
finished in 1994. The project was coordinated by Carleton University's
Geotechnical Science Laboratories in co-operation with a team of French
researchers representing the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS). Over this twelve-year period, six long-term buried
chilled pipeline frost heave test cycles were conducted at a research
laboratory operated by the 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.
Although the tests results from the Canada-France Project are described
in literature found in the public domain, complete data sets containing
raw data produced from each of the ground freezing experiments appeared
to be no longer readily available.
Permafrost Environmental Consulting, a cold regions research company
developed from the former research unit at Carleton University's
Geotechnical Science Laboratories, has over the last 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:
Les White
Permafrost Environmental Consulting
E-mail: white [at] permafrost.ca
The price for corporate and government clients is $25,000 CDN per
database or $120,000 CDN for all six databases. Universities are offered
an academic edition of the six databases and resource libraries for
$45,000 CDN.
A portion of the sales from these databases will be used to fund an
endowment for a northern research scholarship at Carleton University.