Sweden Built Environment

Sweden Built Environment is a collection of articles and podcasts about the built environment and biodiversity in Sweden

Sweden Built Environment

Eco Architecture in Stockholm: Designing for the Climate and the Community

Stockholm · Eco-architecture · Systems Eco Architecture in Stockholm: Designing for the Climate and the Community Stockholm does not sell eco-architecture as a lifestyle. It runs it as infrastructure: near-universal district heating, nature-based stormwater, mass-timber districts and hard climate targets, all working together. This is how the city builds, and what can be learned from […]

Jackie De Burca · 7/13/2025

Biodiversity

Sweden Biodiversity and the Built Environment

Sweden · Biodiversity · Built environment Sweden Biodiversity and the Built Environment Sweden is a country that thinks of itself as wild — and in large part it is. But the nature it protects, and the nature its towns and timber towns are built from, are shaped by a forestry and planning model that is […]

Jackie De Burca · 4/11/2024

Biodiversity

Sweden Biodiversity: Animal and Plant Species and What Is Under Threat

Sweden · Biodiversity · Species Sweden Biodiversity: Animal and Plant Species and What Is Under Threat Sweden’s species list reads like a geography of the north: moose and reindeer, lynx and wolf, spruce and birch, orchids and lichens, cod and salmon. The threat to that list is not one crisis but a slow shifting of […]

Jackie De Burca · 2/26/2024

Green Building

Sweden Top Green Buildings

Sweden · Green building · Certification Sweden Top Green Buildings — Sustainable Marvels Swedish green building is not a boutique movement. It is a national system: a suite of home-grown certifications, a construction industry that has industrialised low-carbon timber, and a handful of buildings that have become the country’s calling cards abroad. This is what […]

Jackie De Burca · 2/13/2024

Green Building

Welcome to Estonia's Top Green Buildings!

Discover the nation’s dedication to sustainable development and innovative eco-friendly design. Estonia has some of the most energy-efficient buildings in Europe, with the lowest energy consumption. Estonia’s success in energy efficiency is attributed to the establishment of minimum energy performance requirements and the work of researchers and engineers. The country has implemented sustainable measures such […]

Jackie De Burca · 10/28/2023

Cities

Redefining Urban Progress: Exploring Post-Growth City Models

Sweden · Urbanism · Post-growth Redefining Urban Progress: Exploring Post-Growth City Models For a century, a successful city was one that grew — more people, more building, more economic output. A new body of thinking asks what a city looks like when growth is no longer the goal: what it measures, how it builds, and […]

Jackie De Burca · 8/18/2023

Net Zero

Zero-Emission Construction Equipment: Greening the Building Process

Sweden · Construction · Zero emission Zero-Emission Construction Equipment: Greening the Building Process A building site is the last place most people expect to find clean technology. Yet the excavation, lifting and hauling that precede a building are a major source of urban emissions, noise and pollution — and Sweden has become one of the […]

Jackie De Burca · 8/9/2023

Sustainability

The Intersection of Smart Cities and Sustainable Building Practices

Sweden · Smart cities · Urban systems The Intersection of Smart Cities and Sustainable Building Practices The smart city idea began as a technology story — sensors, data, dashboards. In Sweden it matured into something less flashy and more useful: using measurement and systems thinking to make buildings, heat, water and transport work together. This […]

Jackie De Burca · 8/9/2023

Net Zero

The Evolution of Passive House Design: Energy-Efficiency in Architecture

Sweden · Passive house · Energy The Evolution of Passive House Design: Energy Efficiency in Architecture Passive house began as a German experiment in the 1990s. In Sweden it became something more practical: an approach to building warm, healthy homes in a cold climate using a fraction of the usual energy. This is how the […]

Jackie De Burca · 8/8/2023

Biodiversity

S2, E8: Sustainable Housing In Europe Challenges and Opportunities with the Global Policy Research Group

S2, E8: Sustainable Housing In Europe Challenges and Opportunities with the Global Policy Research Group The Global Policy Research Group is the the policy hub for next-generation policymakers that brings senior researchers, young professionals, and students together. One of their most recent reports investigates case studies and other aspects of Sustainable Housing in Europe. Jackie […]

Katharina Fey · 4/13/2023

Podcasts

Episode 14: The Importance of Affordable Social Housing with Top Architect, James Mary O'Connor. Pete Talks to Steve About the Global Movement to the Countryside.

Henry Interviews Top Architect James Mary O’Connor Following one of our most important episodes to date, James Mary O’Connor, Principal-in-Charge at Moore Ruble Yudell, talks to Henry McDonald about the importance of affordable social housing and sustainability. We cannot be deciding whether I’m going to do the latest benchmark building here sustainably. I think it […]

James Mary O'Connor · 10/11/2021

Construction News

Biosite’s access control system launched on site near Stockholm

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admin · 12/14/2020