Connected construction sites

Innovation platform for sustainable attractive cities

In the accelerating need for conversion of cities and communities, necessary all over the world, Kiruna has the opportunity to be in the frontline due to the city transformation, caused by the local mine. The process forces the municipality to speed up planning and building of a sustainable and carbon dioxide neutral city, 250km north of the Arctic Circle, in an arctic climate.

Sustainable industry development through innovation promoting procurement

Procurement is a key driver for innovation in the construction sector, but it can also inhibit development as it clearly affects all the components of the innovation system. Within the infrastructure sector, Skellefteå municipality, as the first municipality in Sweden, used an innovation promoting procurement strategy based on competitive dialogue followed by a cooperation agreements for procurement of maintenance work of its road network. The idea with this strategy is to focus less on technical solutions and instead focus more on functionality, competence, collaboration and dialogue to jointly achieve more long-term sustainable solutions. This strategy is unusual in Sweden and this specific case has attracted much attention among Sweden's public and municipal clients. However, despite great interest from clients, this strategy has not been implemented in construction projects to a greater extent, much due to the increased risk and uncertainty that new strategies might imply.

Qualitative follow-up of design-build contracts

The aim of the research project is to see how procurement strategies have been implemented and how they have worked in practice, but also how the procurement strategies have affected the project outcome.

Follow-up and evaluation of innovation pilots for road maintenance

The purpose of the project is to follow-up and evaluate the experiences and the effects of the innovation pilots’ business strategies, organizations and work procedures for prerequisites of development and innovation on the supplier market.

Follow-up of consultancy contracts with fixed fees

The purpose of the project is to evaluate the effects of various project conditions such as complexity and uncertainty, but also the introduction of fixed fees as compensation forms on consultancy deliveries in the traditional areas of Time, Cost and Content as well as the development areas Cooperation and Innovation.

Digital instructions on-site, WP4 – Connected building site, Smart Built Environment

The purpose of the project is to identify structures for the information flow at the construction site. Ongoing studies at Lindbäcks Bygg and BoKlok are analyzed in detail based how information is changed and transferred between actors as well as which structures carry information along the production process.

VALLA Coach

With inspiration from the cross country ski team's waxing huts, the VALLA Coach project has developed methods and tools to create the conditions for learning and measuring at the construction site. The goal is to offer opportunities for development at the construction site with those involved in the production: A Virtual Lab, VirtuAL LAboratory, with a coaching approach, Coach.

DORIS - Doctoral research project for resource efficiency in the community building sector

DORIS is a collaboration project between Luleå University of Technology and Luleå municipality. Through collaboration we will develop, test, evaluate and exchange experiences on new working methods for resource-efficient dialogue processes, from idea to concrete housing solution.

Timber on Top

Stage 1 within Timber on Top aims at creating frameworks and starting positions for how additions / extensions become flexible and circular, by describing obstacles and opportunities for biobased prefabricated building systems.

Connected Construction site

The temporary nature of the construction projects and its supply chains makes it difficult to collect and transfer data within and between construction projects, which include prevents the coordination of production and logistics. However, current industrial digitization can provide an opportunity for a leap of both technological development and the way of doing business in the construction industry.

Sustainable building - Kiruna Sustainability Center

In the Sustainable building sub project, LTU and RISE work with development of methods for construction of buildings that are optimized for life cycle energy and cost and in the future social sustainability.

Farming - Kiruna Sustainability Center

Energy-efficiency of buildings from a life cycle perspective in the sub-arctic climate

I am working as a PhD student at the timber structure research group in the division of industrialized and sustainable construction here at LTU. The research project is titled as EEBAK (Energieffectiva byggnader i arktiska kommuner) which is a collaboration with Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and Northern Research Institute (Norut) Narvik, Norway.

What governs property managers' energy-related decisions?

In this research project, we explore the potential for introduction of energy-related technologies/method innovations in the property stock. The project is supported by the Swedish Energy Agency through the program E2B2.

Dynamic properties of high-rise timber buildings

This project study dynamic properties in high-rise timber buildings. At what height will dynamic movement be important design criteria and when do we need special design solutions? The project is financed by Sweco Structures AB and TräCentrum Norr.

Platforms as a tool for learning

The research is funded by NCC and FORMAS and the background is that there is an identified need in Sweden to address the refurbishment of buildings built before and during the Million Homes program. NCC wants to increase knowledge sharing and experience feedback between different refurbishment projects and intend to develop a platform for refurbishment processes.

Flow efficiency through platforms in construction

We want to understand flow efficiency in construction, which today focus resource efficiency. Platforms decrease variability and increase flow efficiency. Supporter: Swedish Construction Federation.

House of Sustainability

This research project is unique since it collaborates very closely with a running low energy building project in Gällivare of northern Sweden. Construction documents produced in the research project will be used in the building project. Design Evolution (Tyréns), Sweco Architects, Gällivare municipality and HSB Norr are collaborating partners.

Quantifying and mitigating embodied energy in industrialized building platforms

An international research project between China and Sweden

Reduction of the embodied impact during the building design and pre-construction phase

The main purpose of this research, which is funded by Attract and E2B2, is to integrate BIM and LCA in order to facilitate assessment of the embodied impact associated with material selection and construction processes for the designers and contractors during the design an ore-construction phase.

Requirement Management in Idustrialized House-Building

Industrialized house-building has become popular among construction companies to increase productivity by for example focusing on production process improvements. In this research project, the implications from industrialized house-building on the architect’s creative process are explored.

Developing education collaboration on green construction between Sweden and China

The project is to develop double-degree education programme between Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT, China) and Luleå University of Technology (LTU, Sweden) regarding green construction.

Quantifying and mitigating embodied energy in industrialized building platforms

An international research project between China and Sweden.

Design for mitigating emission of greenhouse gases in industrialized construction