Training Research Areas of strength About Chalmers In English Start Areas of strength Building Futures News Helene Hellmark Knutsson inaugurated HSB Living Lab Building Futures Profile areas News Calendar Society and business Training Center plug Photo: Niklas Maupoix Helene Hellmark Knutsson inaugurated HSB Living Lab The research is underway and almost 200 people visited the unique experimental house at Chalmers during the opening day. Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister of Higher Education and Research, spoke at the inauguration and emphasized the importance of collaboration between business and academia. - The development of Sweden's research is extremely central to the country. Through this good example of an open research arena, opportunities are now given to bring important housing innovations to market more quickly. My hope is that more people will follow this form of collaboration and invest in the good housing of the future, says Helene Hellmark Knutsson. During the opening day, the guests were given a taste of the research that is going on in the experimental house. Here, the future Laundry Studio, an integrated laundry and social area, the new innovation BioBlender, which separates water from kitchen compost and enables composting on its own balcony, was demonstrated. The house's district heating return system, which saves energy and money, was also shown here. Likewise, the twelve planned large holes in the facade drew many curious people. These interchangeable wall modules are one of many examples of HSB Living Lab's research potential. - Thanks to the opportunity to test new wall systems as well as insulation and facade materials for as long as ten years, we now have the very best conditions for succeeding in developing sustainable future solutions. For me as a researcher, the interchangeable wall modules in HSB Living Lab are equal to the idea that we would have access to 120 houses to test. It is a fantastic opportunity, says Angela Sasic Kalagasidis, assistant professor at Construction and Environmental Engineering at Chalmers. On June 1, HSB Living Lab was ready to move in, and students and guest researchers now live and work here at the same time as research is ongoing, around the clock. During the inauguration, guests had the opportunity to visit the students' homes and see how such an area as small as 12 square meters, or 47 cubic meters as the private apartment is preferred, can be experienced as spacious and bright. Rebecca Eurenius is one of the 33 residents in HSB Living Lab and shares with five other students a kitchen, bathroom, living room and balcony. She is proud and happy to have been chosen to live in the house. - For me personally, it is important to be able to contribute to the research that will hopefully result in new innovations and solutions for future housing. That they measure everything we do and how we move does not matter to me at all, it's just fun to be a part of pulling my weight for a sustainable world, says Rebecca, an everyday student at HDK in Gothenburg. In HSB Living Lab, twelve partners from business and academia collaborate. Together, they focus on housing, where collaboration is considered central. The collaboration makes it possible to obtain resources for a relevant research platform and to gain access to knowledge and experience from other industries in the housing sector. In the autumn of 2016, at least fifteen research projects and studies will be started up. The hope is that the HSB Living Lab can speed up the process and that in just two years, instead of the current ten years, you can bring housing innovations to market. If you want to know more, contact: Shea Hagy, research manager HSB Living Lab +46 709 84 70 67 Stefan Andersson, project manager HSB Living Lab, + 46 705 80 59 90 Cecilia Lööf, communications manager HSB Living Lab, +46 707 21 51 77 Join us on the journey towards future housing. HSB Living Lab is the journey towards the housing of the future. The idea of a living lab for research on a sustainable living environment was born in 2010 and is now a reality in 2016. Here at Chalmers, students, HSB members and researchers live and live to test innovations and technical solutions for the next generation of housing. In 29 apartments equipped with measuring stations and 2,000 sensors, 33 people live in an ever-changing building where walls, facades and interiors are developed as research progresses. HSB Livning Lab is a collaboration between 12 collaboration partners and a unique arena for creating the sustainable living environments of the future. 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