A Vision for Building Services
Le Corbusier wrote famously in 1927 that “A house is a machine for living in.” The phrase is now more accurate than ever.
If you study a federated BIM model of a modern Finnish building, the amount of HVACE technology is staggering. For example, a newly built Finnish hospital's BIM model contained around 40,000 structural objects, while it had 450,000 MEP objects.
There are many reasons why the amount and importance of building services technology is increasing. In the harsh climate of Finland, we want to ensure user comfort and health while keeping energy consumption as low as possible. In pursuing carbon neutrality throughout the building life cycle, using alternative energy sources introduces innovative and intricate solutions.
The forward-thinking Finnish consortium
While the importance of building services is reaching new heights, The?Finnish?leaders in the sector decided to team up with two universities, Aalto and Tampere, to prepare for the future. They founded the Talotekniikka 2030 consortium (Building Services 2030) to fund and lead research and raise the profile of the sector.
The new consortium followed the example of Building 2030, a similar group in construction technology. As their counterpart, Talotekniikka 2030 wanted to define a shared vision. Its purpose is to promote the expansion of the roles of building services operators in both construction and property management and bring about a leap forward in productivity and sustainability.
The vision work is now completed.
The vision
Here’s a freely translated summary of the recently released vision and its value propositions.
The vision for 2030:
Building services create the world's most responsible buildings.
The value propositions:
Advanced technology and data enable productivity and continuous improvement.
Next steps
The vision guides the sector’s development efforts and hopefully gets traction in all Finnish companies and organizations involved in building services.
The consortium continues in the coming 12 months by defining a roadmap toward the vision and setting quantifiable goals to measure how the vision is being realized.
Download the Finnish version of the vision and follow Talotekniikka 2030 on LinkedIn.
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