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  • Rule changes for better housing: Linda Teng interviewed by Fastighetstidningen

    Linda Teng, conceptual manager for student and researcher housing at Akademiska Hus. Photo: Akademiska Hus
    Published May 19, 2025

    Linda Teng sees a need for housing innovation. In an interview for Fastighetstidningen she describes how rule changes for student housing can produce buildings of higher quality, that are more resourc...

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  • KTH Live-In Lab visits the Empa NEST and Sisslerfeld Living Labs

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    Top left: Sisslerfeld Living Lab; bottom left: Empa NEST Living Lab (© Zooey Braun, Stuttgart); right: Marco Molinari presenting at the Living Labs collaboration workshop.
    Published Apr 11, 2025

    How can we test solutions at the city scale and provide solutions for smart and sustainable cities? To move closer to an answer, Marco Molinari, Director of KTH Live-In Lab, recently traveled to Zuric...

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  • AI research at KTH to facilitate maintenance work for older buildings

    Published Apr 11, 2025

    A research collaboration between Einar Mattsson and KTH explores how AI can improve the understanding of renovation needs in various types of buildings. In the project ”AI-driven Predictive Maintenanc...

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  • Beware! Fireproof battery storages lack regulation

    Picture of battery storage in the Einar Mattsson property at KTH Live-in Lab.
    Battery storage in the Einar Mattsson property at KTH Live-in Lab.
    Published Sep 19, 2024

    Interest in different types of battery storage is increasing due to big opportunities for property owners, but what about the safety? Regulations are lacking, and Einar Mattsson is participating in se...

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  • KTH Live-In Lab Annual Report 2023

    Flowers growing outside building
    Published Aug 26, 2024

    Our projects, courses, and collaborations in 2023 focused on sustainable building innovations and knowledge sharing.

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  • New KTH Live-In Lab Director: Meet Marco Molinari

    Marco Molinari has a background in mechanical engineering and a PhD in building technology.
    Published Aug 18, 2024

    He has been part of the KTH Live-In Lab for most of the center’s existence, working on conceptualization and education, as well as his own research on smart building controls. Marco Molinari is now ta...

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  • New thesis on human-centered digital transformation in buildings

    Katarina Bäcklund
    Katarina Bäcklund posting her dissertation Human-Centric Operations of Smarter Higher Educational Buildings in Sweden.
    Published Jun 09, 2024

    Katarina Bäcklund's research indicates that smart buildings are not yet smart enough, and that not all data is smart data. There is still much to be done before the digital transformation can be fully...

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  • Stefan Ränk awarded KTH's Award for Industrial Collaboration

    Stefan Ränk accepts KTH's award for industrial collaboration 2023.
    Stefan Ränk accepts KTH's award for industrial collaboration 2023. Photo: Studio Slakthuset
    Published Apr 16, 2024

    On Friday the 12th of April, Stefan Ränk, the CEO of Einar Mattsson, received KTH's Award for Industrial Collaboration. This took place in grand fashion during KTH's inauguration of new professors at ...

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  • Open position: Doctoral student in Digitalisation and RE business models

    Staircase in building
    Image from Unsplash.
    Published Apr 08, 2024

    PhD project in Real Estate Construction and Management, focusing on how applications of innovative digital solutions in Real Estate generate value from a corporate and societal perspective.

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  • Open positions: Doctoral students for projects on Digital Twins

    Engineers standing around a table
    Photo: ThisisEngineering, Unsplash.
    Published Mar 22, 2024

    Apply for two open PhD positions focusing on Digital Twins – one at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and one at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management. Both proj...

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  • New project explores fire protection for battery storage in buildings

    Published Feb 18, 2024

    A new project intends to evaluate how fire protection for battery storage can be developed as cost-efficiently as possible in collaboration with other important requirements, such as radiation and ven...

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  • Smart and Sustainable Buildings: new book from Jonas Anund Vogel

    Jonas Anund Vogel outside KTH Live-In Lab.
    Jonas Anund Vogel outside KTH Live-In Lab.
    Published Feb 16, 2024

    In his new book ”Smarta och hållbara byggnader” (Smart and Sustainable Buildings), Jonas Anund Vogel, director of KTH Live-In Lab and Dig-IT Lab, gathers his experience from research and networking on...

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  • Building The Future: Unveiling Educational and Competence Demands for Smart and Sustainable Building

    Published Feb 12, 2024

    A new paper details how the Swedish construction sector is becoming increasingly dynamic, and the challenges that arises from that.

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  • The mystery of the right amount of milk in coffee is finally solved!

    Image showing how different animals' fur can correspond to the amount of milk in coffee
    The study's suggested coffee-milk-system.
    Published Jan 23, 2024

    How can one bet communicate how much milk one wants in their coffee? Science has an answer.

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  • Untapped Energy-Saving Potential in Green and Smart Higher Educational Buildings

    Testbed Akademiska Hus.
    Testbed Akademiska Hus.
    Published Dec 21, 2023

    A study conducted by Katarina Bäcklund et al. explores the energy awareness ad energy-saving behaviours of occupants of a higher education smart building, a building that also acts as a testbed for th...

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  • Social Interactions for a Sustainable Lifestyle

    Illustration of KTH Live-In Lab used in this experimental campaign.
    Published Nov 27, 2023

    A study conducted by Angela Fontan PhD et al. in collaboration with KTH Live-In Lab explores digital technology in smart homes and its relation to sustainable living.

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  • Dig-IT Lab – New competence centre accelerating digitalization in the construction industry

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    The new virtual testbeds that are now being planned within Dig-IT Lab – including an overall "Testbed Xn" – will support research and development in areas such as optimization, operations, business models, organization, sustainability and circularity. Ethical considerations, legal compliance and lifelong learning are other important areas.
    Published Sep 13, 2023

    Dig-IT Lab is a new Vinnova-funded competence centre at KTH, aiming at reducing the environmental impact of buildings through digitalization. The centre will promote collaboration as well as accelerat...

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  • Embodied carbon savings of co-living and implications for metrics

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    Co-living design. Med författarens tillstånd.
    Published Aug 17, 2023

    A study conducted by Tove Malmqvist and Johanna Brismark in collaboration with KTH Live-In Lab, Co-Kitchen, and Max4lax explores the potential embodied carbon savings associated with co-living design.

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  • KTH Live-In Lab Annual Report 2022

    Researcher at KTH Live-In Lab
    Published Jun 22, 2023

    2022 was a year of collaboration, evolution and learning for KTH Live-In Lab. Read more about our work and our new projects in the Annual Report for 2022.

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  • Final Report CoKitchen

    Published May 05, 2023

    CoKitchen is a research project that investigated shared housing for students and has now completed its final report. The results can contribute to sustainable forms of housing and guide the design me...

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