Projects in built environment

How can we raise consumer awareness about the risks of direct imports via e-commerce? In this project, we explore how to inform consumers in a fun yet fact-based way using short films.

Effective market models for reuse, together with regulations that promote them, are crucial factors in the transition to a circular built environment sector – from planning through implementation to management, and, when needed, conversion or dismantling and reuse.

In this study, improved solutions have been developed with a second barrier or secondary seal and drainage, which have been verified through laboratory tests. Commonly occurring façade details have been included, such as several variants of horizontal and vertical element joints, balcony, window, r…

What happens to the forest value chain, not to mention humanity, when forests are existential threats? How does this image reflect our contemporary relationship with the forest? Through foresight, speculative design, prototyping and visualization, with a broad group of experts, RISE invites to refl…

Wind turbine blades and solar panels are essential for the transition to both fossil-free and renewable energy. In order for circular value chains of solar panels and wind turbine blades to reach their full potential, this policy lab will facilitate industry collaboration on policy and regulatory d…

This study examines how municipalities' transition capacity can be strengthened through effective leadership and coordination of cross-sectoral work. Through qualitative studies, interviews, and a policy lab, tools are developed to create more integrated and sustainable urban development processes.

Despite having an understanding that the linear economy is devastating for our environment, the overwhelming majority of Swedish businesses still operate according to linear principles, where growth and profitability take precedence over a more sustainable use of resources. To achieve our environme…

The extractive industry in Sweden currently has ~177 km2 of mining disturbed land. The aim of the Waste2Place project is to create long-term stable landforms to help to deliver mining-disturbed land back to nature and people through a geomorphic approach to waste rock management. RISE plays a role …

During crises and conflicts, it is vital that key societal functions remain operational. A lack of spare parts could cause disruptions that impact both food and water supplies. To explore whether additive manufacturing of spare parts could enhance resilience, the Swedish Food Agency has commissione…

The aim was to increase knowledge of how the moisture safety of CLT structures is affected by precipitation during frame erection without weather protection. CLT elements and construction details, joints and connections, have been studied both in the field and in the lab to enable the industry to b…

System dynamics simulation modelling to facilitate/support decision-making practices made by municipalities and industry where WtE operations, the energy system, and high-level policy goals such as increased material reuse and net-zero targets are integrated

In the FLYH2UME project, Umeå Municipality, Swedavia, RISE and Umeå Energi are jointly taking significant steps to prepare for the introduction of hydrogen at airports and to enable hydrogen flights by 2035.

HS30 (Sustainable Stockholm 2030) gathers actors from the housing development sector in the Region of Stockholm, who work together to strongly reduce the ecological footprint of the industry and to take social sustainability even more seriously. RISE coordinates the forum.

Together with Umeå Municipality, RISE has developes and tested new ways of working holistically with system innovation to increase the city's ability to adapt. The project will enable new ways of collaborating and working more jointly with the climate challenge, across the city's administrations an…

This interdisciplinary research aims to offer new perspectives on how integrating the participation of the autism community in public transport planning processes can help initiate and improve the social participation of individuals with ASD in society.

C2B2 envisions a more sustainable, open and democratic, multi-sector and multi-actor blue economy and sustainable society. C2B2 aims to bring about transformative change through participatory governance supported by relevant and insightful data and knowledge by re-imagining the role of quintup…