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Bifröst Business School is located in a large lava field in Borgarfjördur, a grand flat-bottomed valley rising from the head of Borgarfjord in Western Iceland. The location is remote and virtually uninhabited; the nearest town is 40-km distant and the campus is 120-km from the capital, Reykjavik. The school was first established in 1918 and has been expanded slowly over the intervening years. The enlargement of the school campus has required the removal of some of the lava-field. To mitigate the effect of this disturbance the lava was carefully removed and stored during construction and then reinstated on the roof where the moss can continue to grow peacefully. Furthermore the special characteristics of the site have been harnessed in the natural ventilation system and heating is provided by locally supplied geothermal power.