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School of Architecture and the Built Environment

Our research and educational programmes relates to the future of our society; how cities, buildings and infrastructure will be designed and built, how institutions and regulatory systems should be developed to produce a good living environment, and how to provide good development conditions for business.

The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is comprised of six departments and seven centres for advanced research.

The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is one of five schools at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Departments

Architecture

Civil and Architectural Engineering

Philosophy and History

Real Estate and Construction Management

Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED)

Urban Planning and Environment

Competence Centres 

The new virtual testbeds that are being planned within Dig-IT Lab.
The new virtual testbeds that are being planned within Dig-IT Lab.

DIG-IT Lab aims to leverage benefits of digitalisation for more efficient and sustainable buildings

Several researchers from the Architecture and the Built Environment field will participate in the new DIG-IT Lab research centre, an evolution of KTH Live-In Lab. The centre's purpose is to reduce the...

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A yellow sea cucumber on the seabed
A "gummy squirrel" sea cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, living at a depth of 5,000 meters. Image courtesy of the DeepCCZ expedition/NOAA

The Ocean – a contemporary history

Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...

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QR codes for tips.
Boost interventions were communicated using QR codes posted next to the microwave, shower, and refrigerator.

Sustainable energy consumption via boosting or nudging - what works best?

"We are not as rational as we think but need help to make wise decisions in everyday life. That's why we need nudges, interventions that guide our decisions in a certain direction", says the nudge adv...

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