Buildings Post Corona

Research Project, 2021 – 2025

The overall purpose of the proposed research is to support the building sector for future scenarios of impending climate change; to design, build and operate buildings that are healthy, use limited resources, and are climate-resilient.
Previous research has identified how extreme temperatures, with periods characterized by extreme cold and heat, place completely new demands on the climate systems in the buildings. Additionally, including the perspective of changes in the Earth´s ecosystem, it is found that we likely will experience new types of airborne diseases beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the escalating global increase in CO2 emissions calls for radial energy use reduction from the building sector. The research will establish new knowledge development by applying an interdisciplinary methodology with researchers utilizing their disciplinary perspective, collaborating with stakeholders with the societal connection providing knowledge, systems, and indoor spaces. The research offers the opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary platform to obtain the new knowledge required. The methodology will utilize a collaboration network that will be established and activated. With the support of the network, the project will set up and evaluate a methodology to design sustainable buildings with healthy indoor air and minimal risk of disease transmission. The results suggest best practices for the design of future sustainable buildings with a healthy indoor environment.