New unique project to minimise the risk of infection in buildings

The project "Buildings Post Corona" will work out how buildings should be designed to be sustainable and ensure a healthy indoor environment with minimal risk of transmission of airborne diseases.

- Akademiska Hus is one of Sweden's largest real estate companies and more than 300,000 people research, study and work in our premises. Being able to contribute to making the buildings of the future safer in the event of an airborne risk of infection is of course an important issue for us," says Peter Karlsson, Innovation Manager at Akademiska Hus.

Through the breadth of expertise available at the four universities and partners, the project will cover the perspectives and methods needed to design a good indoor environment based on sustainability, energy use, health and risk of infection. Akademiska Hus is one of the participating parties in the project, which is also carried out in close collaboration with the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, Svensk Ventilation, the Property Owners' Association, Bengt Dahlgren, Tovenco, Länsgården Fastigheter, Swegon, Einar Mattsson, the Local Administration of Gothenburg, Geberit and the Energy & Environmental Technology Association.

- How Covid-19 spreads is something that researchers all over the world are working on right now. Infection via air has been a crucial component for many of the plagues that have developed into pandemics such as influenza, smallpox and now Covid-19. The indoor environment with technical systems and floor plans, how we behave, and the spread of infection together form complex areas," says Jonas Anund Vogel, director of KTH Live-In Lab.