The current conventional energy production and forecast for fulfilling the demand of future energy need with conventional energy production pose a serious threat to the humanity. With abundant energy source and huge technology advancement, solar energy is one of many magic pills that could drive the world towards sustainable energy use. This thesis […]
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This thesis includes two phases. The Phase I is about the Challenge Lab process, which is applied to identify a research topic as a leverage point for moving towards sustainable urban development. Since overcoming sustainability challenges needs interorganizational collaboration and user involvement, the Phase II focuses on these issues. In […]
© JOHAN LARSSON AND AMANDINE LAUMONT, 2015. Increasing concerns are being raised about the symptoms of the present unsustainable trends linked to the systems we have built up to fulfill our needs. This calls for a transition in systems related to energy supply, mobility, agriculture, and consumption. In order to […]
Sustainable urban development was defined as the challenge to be addressed by the students of the 2015 version of the Challenge Lab and as the framework under which research questions would be derived. The Challenge Lab is a neutral arena where students become change agents and address complex problems from a systems’ perspective. […]
Around 90% of the total costs of commercial buildings´ operations are attributed to the staff in terms of salaries and benefits. Energy-related behaviors of building occupants are directly related to high fluctuations of energy consumption in buildings. Evidently, Green buildings and upcoming sustainable building technologies will need to justify their […]
The world could be entering an era of carbon neutral, decentralised electricity production; fuelled by plummeting prices of solar photovoltaic systems, and the empowerment of property owners and small-scale investors. The entry of individual homeowners poses however challenges for the further diffusion of photovoltaics, as they are likely to bring new mechanisms onto the […]
District development in Sweden both shapes and is shaped by multiple societal, environmental and economic factors. The role and responsibility of district development projects is therefore important and requires great attention from both The Client and The Suppliers. Multiple researchers point at the need of transitions towards sustainability within the construction industry, as the […]
In this project a bioretention planter (BP) that retain stormwater and reduce nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is designed for use in Gothenburg. Initially the research question was defined following the Challenge Lab process. As the maximum capacity is reached at the wastewater treatment […]