Need for modern multidisciplinary research and developments to change the built environment sector

Presentation of Lectio Magistralis:
Luca Cipriani Scuola Superiore Studi Città Territorio - Director

KALLE KÄHKÖNEN
Professor of Construction Management and Economics Tampere University of Technology, Finland
ISA Visiting Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy

The built environment (BE) is a key enabler for functioning of societies in economic and social terms, security, quality of life and overall competiveness. As a whole the BE can be understood as a heterogeneous complex system formed by multiple-interconnected sub-systems (i.e. products and product systems, services and service systems, human activity systems).  For example, the regulatory framework and related public and private decision making at different levels have created a complex sphere where a variety of agendas, their objectives and priorities are blurring the overall picture and targeted harmonized results can be very difficult to reach. The present problems are multidimensional and very tricky requiring new research based breakthroughs and innovations. Positive synergies can be achieved by the inclusion of institutions, companies and people for producing the missing knowledge towards future and success of the BE. This is calling for multidisciplinary research and development where new kind of ecosystems of experts and their organizations are working together and moving towards new solutions.

The lecture shall first address the characteristics of the built environment sector as a system. Second, recent examples of multidisciplinary research and its results are to be presented, those are integrated construction project deliveries, modularization of building construction and digitalization of building services.

L'Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Ravenna riconosce 2 CFP ai propri iscritti partecipanti alla lezione magistrale