Load-bearing capacity of infrastructure

Client

Annehem Fastigheter is a Swedish real estate company originating from Peab, where properties and property management are detached into separate companies. The company has its headquarteres in Ängelholm and owns and manages properties in, among others, Malmö, Ängelholm, Helsingborg, Ljungbyhed, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Helsinki. The properties consists mainly of office buildings.

The business is characterised by close collaboration with tenants and a long-term management focus. In 2022, Annehem's share was green-listed on Nasdaq, which marked the start of a strengthened focus on sustainability.

A special strategic focus is on the development of Ljungbyhed Park outside of Klippan, where Annehem owns both land and properties and has control over the airspace. Today, the park works as a cluster for education, research and development. Here you can for example find Lund University's commercial aviation school, the municipality's aviation engineering center, high school and vocational training, drone schools, Ljungbyhed Motorbana where, among other things, the police are trained, as well as companies and student housing.

Work is also underway in the park to develop the area into a total defense center where various actors come for training and exercises. The ambition is to create conditions for collaboration between different social functions such as the police, healthcare and emergency services, so that joint exercises can be carried out in a realistic environment. This is something that is already happening on a smaller scale today, but is expected to expand further in the future.

Task

Annehem's planned development of Ljungbyhed Park will involve more exercises, increased visitor frequency, more overnight guests and more and heavier vehicles that will use the road network within the park. There are a couple of primary entrances to the park that are considered particularly important when it comes to road load capacity.

The purpose of this project is to investigate today's road load capacity of the roads, make a forecast for the load capacity that will be needed in the future and develop suitable measure proposals. Important aspects to take into account will be load capacity (how heavy vehicles the road can handle without being damaged), the road construction, soil conditions and how the road load capacity varies over the year.

The number of sites to be investigated and the final delimitations are made in consultation with the university supervisor and the project client. Both the student and the client should be aware that appropriate academic grounding must be applied in the work.