A living lab co-creation environment exemplifying Factor 10 improvements in a city district
Journal article, 2015

The greater proportion of global emission production and resource consumption takes place in cities. Innovations are needed to reduce the use of resources and emissions within the building sector, but the sector is slow to innovate and integrate new technology, and high-impact city-scale interventions are difficult, owing to the complexity of factors. In this paper, a district-scale approach is projected to be an effective way to invoke change within the built environment of a city system, exemplified through the European Union-funded Climate-KIC Smart Sustainable Districts (SSD) Flagship Project in Gothenburg, Sweden. The SSD aims to reach Factor 10 reductions in the use of resources within the Johanneberg District. A co-creation environment is proposed to incorporate technology innovation for sustainable living into the district, and ultimately city, level, which will be realised through the HSB Living Lab Project, a living lab infrastructure under construction on the campus of Chalmers University of Technology. Interventions to reduce the use of resources at a district-scale systems level in combination with real-world testing and creation of innovative technology within living lab environments have high potential to effect a reduction in city system resource consumption and emissions. This pilot stage proposition will be tested through the implementation of both SSD and HSB Living Lab projects.

use of resources

co-creation

Factor 10

district scale

Smart Sustainable Districts

HSB Living Lab

Author

Leonardo Rosado

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Water Environment Technology

Shea Hagy

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology

Yuliya Kalmykova

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Water Environment Technology

FRIST competence centre

Greg Morrison

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Water Environment Technology

York Ostermeyer

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal

1752-9638 (ISSN) 1752-9646 (eISSN)

Vol. 8 2 171-185

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Areas of Advance

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Architecture

Other Civil Engineering

Environmental Sciences

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10/30/2019