Scaling Deep and Scaling Up Digital Innovation: Driving Structural C hanges toward Sustainable, C ircular, and Resource-Efficient Built Environment
Facts
- Contact person:
- Ju Liu
- Financer:
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- Formas
- Responsible at MaU:
- Ju Liu
- Project members at MaU:
- External project members:
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- Olli Vigren Department of Real Estate and Construction Management KTH
- Collaborators :
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- Heba Fastighets AB
- Hemsö Fastighets AB
- Vasakronan AB
- Vyer Technologies AB
- Time frame:
- 01 July 2025 - 30 June 2029
- Faculty/department:
About the project
The built environment has significant impacts on carbon emissions and material extraction. While digital innovations offer opportunities to optimise resource use, reduce waste, and minimise climate impact, their adoption is hindered by structural challenges such as skill gaps, cultural and organisational barriers, and regulatory constraints. This project aims to promote structural changes in the built environment for scaling deep, embedding digital innovations within organisations and scaling up – expanding their application across sectors and regions to achieve a sustainable, circular, and resource-efficient built environment (SCREBE).
Using digital twin innovation as an example, the project is set to:
- Explore the context and current state of digital innovation for SCREBE;
- analyse the actors, determinants, processes, and impacts of digital innovations on SCREBE; and
- co-design adaptable strategies and solutions to promote structural changes toward SCREBE.
Deliverables include articles, reports, best practices, policy recommendations, and capacity-building materials for industry, policymakers, and academia. The project advances beyond earlier technology- and engineering-focused research by introducing a human-centred, systemic, and inclusive approach while broadening its scope of inquiry to the built environment system.
The project contributes to enhancing innovation capacity, environmental sustainability, societal benefits, and good governance in the built environment.