Testbed KTH 1.0
Testbed KTH is located in a permit free residence area in one of Einar Mattsson's three plus-energy buildings at KTH Campus Valhallavägen. It consists of a flexible number of apartments distributed over 120 square meters, a project office, and a basement for all necessary installations.
About Testbed KTH
The premises are a total of 305 sqm and consists of a living space of approximately 120 sqm, a 150 sqm service space and a project office of about 20kvm. Within Testbed KTH, different apartment configurations will be built on an annual basis, and KTH will rent these out to students wishing to participate in the Testbed project. Testbed KTH is extremely flexible in terms of deisgn and installations. The testbeds also have solar power, boreholes with the possibility of replacing the collector and a ground source heat pump.
Within the 150 sqm, different formations of apartments will be built depending on the needs of the projects currently in progress. The innovative environment is designed to accommodate future technology, but it will also initially provide insight into today's cutting edge technologies. In addition to clean product tests, the testbed also enables adaptive control and management systems, extended sensor installations and future IoT platforms to develop new services and processes related to user and building data.
The buildings have load-bearing exterior walls. The inner walls and all apartments are constructed of light materials. This means that there is great potential for change, which in addition to enabling research on future housing, also creates the prerequisites for researching issues related to the existing built environment, such as environmental programs or single-family houses. Systems involving different lifetime techniques can also be tested and optimized. Important parameters that affect management strategies and planned maintenance can be investigated, adjusted, optimized and packaged in business models and strategies.
Testbed KTH layout
