stillingsbetegnelse:
PhD scholarship in Radical Innovation of Sustainable Building

jobbeskrivelse:
DTU Management Engineering offers a 3-year fully funded PhD fellowship to conduct research into Radical innovation of sustainable building. The position will be based in the Engineering Systems Group. The research project, part of the NordicFiveTech Universities Alliance Partnership, will be carried out in association with Chalmers University of Technology and NTNU and other industry partners within the Nordic construction industry. Responsibilities and tasks The development of sustainability opportunities within buildings is quickly accelerating and multifaceted. It has become difficult – if not impossible – for construction professionals to update on new methods and approaches for processes of innovation as well as the technological development of new products, i.e. building components and systems. Moreover, the full implications of these changes appear to involve fundamental shifts in the paradigms for conceptualizing, producing and operating buildings. Sustainable initiatives in construction on the other hand have poor voluntary uptake. This is due to the fact that sustainability is perceived resource heavy and demanding by users of construction. Because of this double challenge of lack of knowledge about technical options and a negative perception of sustainability measures, the take up of new sustainability opportunities is moderate in the Scandinavian countries compared to the opportunities. At the same time, some clients are prepared to pay the continuously diminishing premium for higher levels of sustainability. Moreover, the regulatory frame is moving, posing ever stricter demands (even if the legislation is behind the technological development). These supporting trends make the Scandinavian countries some of the best prepared to do become trailblazers for ambitious sustainability efforts in buildings. Still, at present most construction projects stay close to the building regulation. The unrealized potential creates a possibility to take a quantum leap in sustainability by transcending existing norms such as LEED, Cradle to Cradle, DGNB and present day and foreseen building regulation. The research objectives The project addresses the challenge by adapting a strategy with a specific focus first developing a research based conceptual frame for radical sustainable building innovation (O’Conner et al 2008) and second by developing a toolkit for radical sustainable innovation in construction. The rationality behind this is to let the toolkit act as the content of the diffusion device rather than the build product. The toolkit amplifies the impact of the project by the implementation of business development practices in companies. This is ensured by designing the toolkit for adaption by business managers, consultants, innovators, developers and change agents just like the business model canvas (Osterwalder and Pigneur 2010). The ultimate ambition of the project is to initiate a movement on radical sustainable innovation in line with BIM and the business model generation and thereby make a significant contribution to the sustainable development of construction. Recent development in other industries has provided tools and frameworks for enabling radical sustainable innovation. This includes knowledge areas within Sustainability, Radical Innovation, Service Design, Sociotechnical transitions and Business models innovation – all representing pieces of a puzzle that needs to be aligned with the context of construction. We invite talented candidates who will be passionate shaping and solving this problem through key research activities like: 1.identifying state-of-the-art within the areas of Sustainability, Radical Innovation, Service design, Sociotechnical transitions and Business models innovation 2.developing a research based conceptual frame for radical sustainable building innovation 3.facilitate the collection of a dynamic repository of sustainable technologies and building materials 4.analyzing existing practic

Arbejdsgiver Navn: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

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Job kort beskrivelse:
Undervisning og forskning på universiteter og højere læreranstalter

land: Danmark

region: Hovedstaden

krævede uddannelse: Ikke angivet

Kilde til jobtilbud: AMS, Offentlige arbejdsformidlinger, Danmark