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Five Key Insights into the Future Superblock – Achieving Carbon Neutral Urban Planning
11.06.2024 – Local area energy plans support carbon neutral urban planning. The superblock of the future is built on these principles.
- Energy
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Finland and Sweden are the best locations for data centres
06.06.2024 – Of all the countries in the world, the best locations for a data centre are Finland and Sweden. We offer…
- Data and digitalisation
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Development of sustainable solutions expands from real estate to city blocks
06.02.2024 – At the moment, all development activities are focused around mitigating climate change. We must find new ways of reducing emissions.
- Data and digitalisation
- Innovations
- Sustainability
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Three things to consider when choosing a data center designer
20.11.2023 – Responding to the ever-growing need for sustainable data processing means new data center sites are popping up and existing ones…
- Data and digitalisation
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Why wouldn’t you share data?
25.10.2023 – The lack of a data sharing culture prevents the construction and real estate industry from utilising data to its full…
- Data and digitalisation
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How we calculate our carbon handprint
10.10.2023 – When we help our customers reduce their carbon footprint, we increase our carbon handprint. We calculate our carbon handprint using…
- Sustainability
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What’s data got to do with it?
28.09.2023 – Imagine a building project where a building information model could simulate and analyse different scenarios based on energy, costs, schedules,…
- Data and digitalisation
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Should we calculate carbon handprint alongside carbon footprint?
30.03.2023 – Carbon handprint aims at capturing the positive climate impacts that a company produces to its’ clients or to the society…
- Sustainability
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EU taxonomy for sustainable activities should not be ignored
31.01.2023 – The EU classification system for sustainable funding, also known as EU taxonomy, impacts construction projects. The planning stages of a…
- Energy
- Sustainability
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Recycling waste heat from data centres to district heating networks should be increased
11.01.2023 – Energy-efficiently built data centres are part of the power reserve of the electricity grid. By using renewable energy sources for…
- Data and digitalisation
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How data center operators should prepare for water risks?
17.12.2021 – Data centers are long-term investments and the clients appreciate security, connectivity, stability and scalability. How should the data center operators…
- Data and digitalisation
- Maintenance
- Property management
- Sustainability
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Smart matters! 4 essential questions to make sure your building is smart
07.12.2021 – As part of the Finnish team in the Dubai 2020 Expo, we at Granlund are excited to talk about our…
- Energy
- Property management
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How can gamification benefit property management? – The Four S’s of gamification
25.11.2021 – At the Dubai 2020 Expo, Granlund introduces a game that makes everyone a property manager – for two minutes. The…
- Property management
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Why test Data Center performance after construction? 5 key reasons
17.09.2021 – Data center investors are willing to use large amounts of money on capacity and resiliency in data centers. What are…
- Productivity
- Property management
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Using Augmented Reality in Facility Management – more potential than challenges?
14.11.2020 – At Granlund, we are tapping into the potential of Augmented Reality for facility management. Our goal is not only to…
- Maintenance
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BLOG: The Future City should be Citizen Centric, Smart and Sustainable
11.09.2019 – Why does anyone care if a building is smart? In other words: why should we invest in or why would…
- Data and digitalisation
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Making properties function better
09.09.2019 – More than MEUR 200 is wasted in Finnish properties every year because the basics are not in order. All properties,…
- Maintenance
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Smart future of the built environment
05.09.2019 – Smart buildings using artificial intelligence. Autonomous data centers. New ways to design technical building services. Future data offers multiple possibilities,…
- Data and digitalisation
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Blog: Filter Kahvia spiced with some hacking and chocolate bread
05.02.2019 – This year the AEC (=architecture, engineering, construction) hackathon was held in Copenhagen at the end of January. Granlund participated for…
- Innovations
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