Dig-IT Lab will promote collaboration and the use of data collected from buildings to create actual change and benefit. It is run in collaboration between the business community, research organisations and universities in Sweden and a number of international research centres.
"We want to take advantage of the benefits of digitalization and make buildings more efficient and sustainable through collaboration and efficient use of data, reduce CO2 emissions and accelerate the market introduction of new technologies," says Jonas Anund Vogel, director of Dig-IT Lab.
"The centre will be a dynamic arena for academia, industry and politics to collaborate and create innovative solutions.
Dig-IT Lab builds on and broadens the ongoing research and collaboration within the framework of KTH Live-In Lab. KTH Live-In Lab, which started in 2016, creates opportunities for research in the real physical environment with the goal of streamlining the transfer of research results to practical use in the market. with a special focus on sustainability.
"Akademiska Hus is a partner in both centres and this type of collaboration in the industry, together with the latest research, is valuable in the work to achieve our tough climate goals – climate neutrality throughout the value chain by 2035," says Richard Petersson. Area Manager Technology and Service Akademiska Hus.
Dig-IT Lab brings together actors from academia and industry
Academic partners and research organisations:
RISE, and the Real Estate Industry's Board of Education. National collaborating academic partners (Umeå University, Uppsala University, Chalmers University of Technology and RISE) as well as international academic partners (AIT, Grenoble, Concordia, NTNU, Padua, Imperial College London, UT Sydney and UNITE!).
Industry partners:
Akademiska Hus, Bengt Dahlgren, Castellum, Einar Mattsson, EQUA, Myrspoven, Noss Invest, ProptechCore, Sally-R, Schneider Electric, SISAB, Swegon, Vasakronan.
