RISE Lund University/LTH, Malmö University and Uppsala University, Campus Gotland has been granted funds to run the practice-based graduate school ASSURE - Adaptation of urban Space through Sustainable Regeneration. The graduate school support ten doctoral projects that, in close cooperation with the construction and real estate industry, will develop practical knowledge about sustainable renovation and transformation of properties, neighborhoods and areas.

Four of the PhD students will be employed at RISE: one with a focus on circular material flows who is enrolled at LTH, one with a focus on building stock analysis who is enrolled at Malmö University, one with a focus on energy poverty and one with a focus on how to develop and maintain safe neighborhoods. All three will be enrolled at Malmö University   RISE will also be responsible for the contacts with the partner network and arrange two annual conferences on sustainable renovation and transformation between 2023 – 2027.

A network of partners is affiliated with ASSURE. The network includes four property companies: Framtidskoncernen, Stena Fastigheter, Vasakronan and HSB Malmö, Krook & Tjäder Architects and Structor Project Management Malmö AB. Two governmental authorities also participate in the network: the Housing Authority and the Swedish National Antiquities Authority. The network also includes the Eurac Research Institute for Renewable Energy as an international partner.

Two broad regional networks for the construction and real estate industry: Center for Management in the construction sector at Chalmers and Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship at Malmö University are also connected to the research school. The networks will contribute with research questions and concrete challenges that can be linked to the doctoral students' thesis projects.

Careful consideration is also required with other interests such as accessibility for all. Challenges exist both organizationally, technically and within in juristiction. The current legislation and the distribution of responsibilities is unclear but places a great deal of responsibility on the property owner, especially when it comes to the already existing infrastructure.

Within the project, we explore the legal possibilities and obstacles for climate adaptation of vital societal functions. More specifically, we intend to investigate:

1. If it is legally possible for a public or private actor to protect vital societal functions, even if this means a impairment for other actors in the immediate area.
2. If it is legally possible for e.g. a municipality, region or county board to demand that a public or private actor protect its vital societal functions.
3. If it is legally possible for a actor with vital societal functions to demand an external party to climate-proof for the benefit of its own infrastructure, citing that it is a vital societal functions.

FireBIM proposes developing a web-based BIM platform to improve and facilitate international fire safety documentation from the early design stage. European national building regulations on fire safety differs from country to country, making international collaboration demanding, costly, and prone to high risks. This hinders competition for stakeholders within the building design process who want to operate across borders in Europe. The goal of FireBIM is to develop the embedded mechanisms of fire safety assessment in an online BIM platform to increase cross-disciplinary facilitation of fire safety and across European borders. 

The project digitally couples the fire codes from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey. 

FireBIM is built by 33 partners from architecture, construction companies, consultants, fire safety experts, BIM developers, software design, and education.  

Ansatsen till projektet, och den förstudie som föregick pågående projekt, var att genom ett ökat digitalt arbetssätt möjliggöra samordning, samverkan och kommunikation mellan kommun, stat och medborgare genom att förenkla, effektivisera och delvis automatisera hanteringen, modifieringen och genereringen av olika sorters visualiseringar av infrastrukturprojekt för att visa anläggningar i landskapet. Från arbete med BIM/GIS-data, till visualiserade, upplevbara modeller i realtidsbaserad 3D-grafik i en och samma lösning - till skillnad från dagens fragmenterade lösningar.  
 
Projektet genomfördes som en fortsättning på förstudien ”Förstudie – Där landskapet möter anläggningen - Integrerad visualisering med hjälp av GIS och BIM (LAVIS)” (TRV 2019/90 306) vilken genomfördes under 2020.  

Projektresultat

Med grund i redan utförd förstudie har projektet utforskat, detaljerat och prioriterat behov som de identifierade användargrupperna har i relation till visualisering med avseende på användbarhet, lämpliga funktioner och användargränssnitt, utifrån ett perspektiv på hela visualiseringsprocessen. Projektresultatet presenterar vidare viktiga aspekter kopplat till kritiska beroenden, implementering och förvaltning samt tydliga insatser för att föra projektet resultat vidare. 

 LAVIS 2.0 har genom sina omfattande tester och prototyputveckling demonstrerat potentialen för en integrerad visualiseringsplattform som kan förbättra sättet infrastrukturprojekt visualiseras och hanteras på. Genom att sätta användarnas behov i fokus och kombinera avancerad teknik med användarcentrerad design, står projektet redo att forma framtidens arbetssätt inom Trafikverket och andra relaterade verksamheter. 

Slutrapport

Slutrapporten behandlar arbetet i projektet LAVIS 2.0. I introduktionen presenteras projektets bakgrund, fokus och forskningsfrågor och arbetspaketens upplägg. I metodöversikten redovisar vi arbetet med att utforma underlaget för de fem genomförda testomgångarna. Avsnittet användartester presenterar respektive testomgång med fokus, målgrupp och prototyper av den experimentplattform som utvecklas i projektet. Genom testomgångars har arbetsgruppen identifierat 77 användarfall som presenteras utifrån tolv olika tematiska huvudområden. Användarfallen belyser olika behov och önskemål från olika användargrupper för visualisering av anläggningar i landskapet, såsom medborgare, projektledare, kommunikationsansvariga och specialister. Majoriteten av de tematiska huvudområdena sammanfattas vidare i rekommendationer.

I avsnittet användarupplevelser har vi utifrån användarfallen försökt beskriva hur ett framtida arbetssätt borde gestaltas för att skapa en effektiv kommunikations- och informationsplattform. I kritiska beroenden behandlar vi också de kringliggande aspekter - implementering och upphandling - som behöver lösas för att vi skall kunna realisera den skissade vision som presenteras i framtida arbetssätt. I avsnittet slutsatser sammanfattar vi de insikter och rekommendationer som projektet lämnar vidare till verksamhet och identifierade behovsägare utifrån arbetet med projektets forskningsfrågor. Sammanfattningsvis berör avsnittet reflektioner vitala delar av projektets fokus, utvärdering och förslag på framtida forskning.

I rapporten hänvisar vi även till rörligt material från genomförda testomgångar samt prototyper utvecklade inom ramen för projektet. 

In order to reverse the development in vulnerable areas and to reduce segregation in society in Sweden, several major investments are now being made by both authorities and municipal property owners. This project will research and follow the Framtiden Group's major investment in vulnerable areas in Gothenburg. The Framtiden Group is Sweden's largest group of property owners, so their investment will be an important example for other municipal property owners in Sweden.

This project includes a PhD position. The doctoral student will focus on segregation problems and the development in Sweden's vulnerable areas. The Framtiden Group's investment will serve as a case study for the research. The project will generate greater contributions to the empirical, theoretical and practical state of knowledge as well as to policy development in the area of ​​segregation:

1. Evaluation of the development in Gothenburg's vulnerable areas partly in relation to the investments of the Framtiden group, partly through parallel analyzes of migration patterns among the residents. Within segregation research, there have been few studies that capture both of these processes (movements to and from areas, and changes in/within the areas per se), and no studies have been conducted with such an extensive and detailed dataset.
2. Analysis of residents' perceived security and area attractiveness using customer satisfaction surveys (conducted by the Framtiden Group), which include question on security issues. These provide a more comprehensive basis than other safety surveys carried out in Sweden. The customer satisfaction surveys have then been matched with register data on the entire Swedish building stock in multi-family buildings.
3. The goal is to contribute to showing which methods to reduce segregation that work and which do not with the support of extensive empirical evidence and analysis combined with in-depth theoretical understanding of segregation processes and area development. This also includes discussion of the importance of specific conditions and factors in the local context.
4. Finally, analyzes must be made of synergies between investments and ventures by municipal real estate companies and other Swedish authorities.

The project will also build on previous contacts with Swedish authorities from the previous doctoral projects. Project results will thereby also be useful for authorities such as the Boverket, the Ministry of Finance and the National Audit Office, to which the project

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for assessing the environmental impact of a product or (production) process (or service) from a holistic perspective. By studying the entire life cycle, the risk that an improvement measure will lead to emissions moving from one part of the system or life cycle to another part is counteracted.

In order to carry out an LCA of a product or process, knowledge is needed about how a life cycle analysis should be carried out, but also how the technical system around the product or process works. At RISE we have long experience about the building as a system, constructions and building products. This we can combine with an extensive knowledge about LCA.

To perform an lCA of a building, part of a building or to compare different design options is complicated, as it is necessary to understand both the LCA-methodology and the building as a system. At RISE we can provide guidance, education and investigations in such studies.

Are you interested in other LCA related tools? At RISE, we also offer other LCA-related tools: Environmental Declarations (EPDs), Climate Declarations (Carbon Footpint), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA).

Our offer

At RISE we have long-standing experience on how structures react to seismic events. We operate a test bed able to perform seismic tests of objects up to 2 tons. The test bed is combined with numerical simulations to offer a large window of services for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of equipment, buildings and infrastructures at different scales.

Analysis

We dispose of modelling tools for the analysis of the seismic response of structures by means of the most common linear and nonlinear seismic analysis methods. These include pushover analysis, modal analysis, modal response spectrum analysis (MRSA), and time-history analysis (THA).

Our engineers can select and generate various earthquake scenarios based on recorded, simulated and artificial ground motions, apply them to the model, and assess the results with respect to the structural integrity according to code provisions.

Our laboratory resources and experience in seismic tests are available for the formulation of non-standardized solutions, where experiments and simulations are combined to reduce the uncertainty and implement new loading scenarios (hybrid analysis).