The future of the built environment is smart
Innovations and development are a significant part of our operations at Granlund Group. Our development work supports Granlund Group’s mission to create well-being for people, buildings and the environment.
Our focus is on value creation and ecosystem lifecycle thinking
At Granlund Innovations, along with the development of technology, we put strong emphasis on how technology breakthroughs create value for our industry and support our overall company strategy. We work closely with our business units to give context and real applications to our innovations, but at the same we thrive being creative and explorative, finding new ways of doing things.
The ecosystem lifecycle approach enables us to consider the different stakeholders involved in the construction and real estate industry and to understand the impact of our innovations in a long-term and holistic way.
With this perspective, we apply different innovation processes, methodologies, and tools for evaluating our innovations based on desirability (human), viability (business) and feasibility (technology). In our innovation projects, we use agile thinking, intended collaboration and bold experimentation as core principles. We strongly believe that people are the key factor in the success of our innovation projects.
THESES
Theses and doctoral dissertations ensure the development of expertise
Theses play a key role in our innovation activities. We encourage people to write theses and reward the best every year. Dozens of studies ranging from bachelor’s theses to doctoral dissertations are completed each year at Granlund. We also offer interesting work and research opportunities to PhDs, and we currently have more than ten of them working with us.
Our innovation themes: smart energy, digital twins, AI, and XR
smart energy
Smart energy
With our research projects, we have promoted smart energy in many ways. We have developed simulation and optimisation tools for design phase, hybrid energy solutions for both individual buildings and neighborhoods, demand responses to limit energy use during peak hours, analytics to optimise building operations and visualisation tools to encourage building users to save energy.
Digital twins
Digital Twins
Digital Twins have a wide range of applications in the built environment. Our innovation team researches different use cases and implements the most recent technologies to develop and represent Digital Twins in our industry.
AI
Artificial intelligence
AI offers several possibilities, from automating routine tasks to finding anomalies in large datasets and forecasting the future. We apply AI to real estate and construction applications and help our customers to utilise the benefits of artificial intelligence.
XR
Extended reality
We believe that XR will have a stronger role in all phases of construction projects in the future. Our goal is learning, understanding and researching the potential applications of XR and how it can deliver tangible value to our industry.
E3
The E3, Excellence in Pandemic Response and Enterprise Solutions Co-Innovation project is one of the largest joint projects between companies and research institutes ever funded by Business Finland. The goal is to find research-based solutions to prevent the spreading of viruses.
Our goal is to develop new smart and modular pandemic safe solutions for healthcare. This includes effective and innovative concepts for smart modular, scalable and movable healthcare, EPCM (Engineering Procurement and Construction Management contract) based models for new constructions and renovations, safe and digital operation in healthcare and solutions for various modular hospital spaces.
Would you like to know more about our innovations? Contact us
Heikki Ihasalo
Francisco Forns-Samso
Read more about our innovations
On the basis of the E3 research project, purifying indoor air reduces the spread of viruses
18.12.2024 – The extensive interdisciplinary E3 research project launched during the COVID-19 pandemic will come to an end at the end of…
HumanIC – Developing future healthcare facilities through human-centric design
12.12.2024 – Granlund is a partner in the EU-funded HumanIC network, which focuses on developing human-centric indoor climate solutions for healthcare facilities.…
The building services sector is transformed by innovating together
25.01.2023 – Granlund’s new Innovation Director Heikki Ihasalo considers the renewal of the building services sector to be inevitable. Operating methods change…
Innovation Director Heikki Ihasalo: “Innovation is needed throughout the entire lifecycle of a building”
03.01.2023 – Heikki Ihasalo, who started as Granlund’s Innovation Director in January, emphasises the importance of joint work and willingness in the…
Granlund acquires Lean 4D to take construction project scheduling to the next level
14.01.2022 – The aim is to take the data-based scheduling and cost control of construction projects to a completely new level and…
An IC room module as a solution to the coronavirus crisis
09.04.2020 – Granlund’s hospital design and Inoroom have developed an intensive care room module.
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