How can digital accelerate sustainability and the transformation of society?
Sigurd Løvfall, Chief Digital Officer at Sweco
Digitalisation plays a key role for engineers, architects and climate experts, in adapting sustainable actions to accelerate the transformation of infrastructure, energy, construction, and urban planning. This isn’t news. Companies have been implementing digital into their organisations for 20 years at least. What’s new is that the pace of the digital transformation, and the acceleration of the implementation of digital technology, provides new opportunities to respond to the challenges of climate change.
At Sweco digitalisation is about working continuously with our clients to develop digital innovations to transform society together.
Four examples of digital innovations developed together with our clients
Carbon circularity
The largest impact in a construction project comes in the early stages of planning and design. If financial and climate-related costs of design choices can be compared in these stages, we can facilitate strategic decision making and support the green transition. Sweco’s Carbon Cost Compass is a service that provides users with direct feedback on the climate footprint and cost of different design choices in an easy-to-use and clear web interface.
Harnessing urban data
As cities and buildings grow smarter with sensors and digital communication, we open the possibility of smart solutions to manage resources, streamline flow, and reduce energy consumption. CROMAS is a digital system that can display and predict crowds in an area or location to spread out and prevent crowds.
Digital Twins
Digital 3D models of a property can be linked with business, operational and climate data. With Sweco’s Twinfinity® platform, owners can minimise the building’s climate impact, optimise their business, lower administrative costs, and create new value for tenants and users.
Using AI to preserve biodiversity
AI can help in preserving biodiversity and designing infrastructure for the benefit of both animals and humans. CAPTURE, an IT platform developed at Sweco that with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, can distinguish images of animals and deliver the right data to researchers.
These are just a few of the digital solutions for transforming society that Sweco has developed with together with our clients to realise their visions and solve their most pressing needs. We have a proud history of helping our clients and we have much more to tell you about how Sweco co-creates digital solutions with clients on projects to accelerate sustainability in infrastructure, energy, architecture, construction and urban planning.
