New report: Competence needs for the smart buildings of the future
A newly released report addresses the engineering skills required for the planning, construction and management of the smart and sustainable buildings. It is based on an interview study conducted with project partners from KTH Live-In Lab.
The starting point for the study is that the traditionally slow building sector, with a focus on property management, is undergoing rapid changes in areas such as digitalisation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Among other things, the increased ability to collect, save, combine and analyse data from the use of properties places greater demands on the ability to analyse these large amounts of data.
The development entails a need for new combinations of competences – not only technical, but also from the areas of business and behavioral science – and puts the focus on how actors such as KTH can meet these new needs for competence development.
Per Fagrell, postdoctoral fellow at ITM Learning, KTH, has interviewed eight companies with connections to KTH Live In Lab within the framework of the study.
Read the report: Kompetensbehov för framtidens smarta byggnader (pdf 173 kB) (In Swedish only)
The study was carried out during winter / spring 2021 within the framework of IRIS – an initiative within the ITM school with the aim of contributing to increased sustainability in industry and society.