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	Örjan Svane, Associate Porfessor
	Title	:	Associate Professor
	Telephone	:	+46 8-790 85 19
	e-mail	:	svane@infra.kth.se
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	After graduating as an architect, I practiced doing refurbishments, and later with ”green architecture”. I was employed as a Ph. D. Student in autumn, 1995, and got my Ph. D. four years later. In January 2001, my first Ph. D. student was employed and she made her Licentiate in spring, 2003. I was appointed Associate Professor during the same year, and in 2006, my first two doctoral students made their Ph. D. In 2009, I was appointed full Professor. In all, I have supervised six doctoral students. In parallel, I have participated in undergraduate education. From 2010 I am responsible for a track within a new Masters’ programme. With the exception of the undergraduate teaching, all activities, including my own Ph. D. education, have been fully financed via external funding that I rose; they were also based on applications I developed. From the autumn of 2007 on I am the project leader of a 5-year, cross-disciplinary research project that I initiated, involving two Ph. D. students and a number of seniors including one each from ETH Zürich and the University of the West of England, and with a budget of € 1,1 million.
	Research interest
	Örjan has long experience as a practising architect, doing project design and implementation as well as resident consultation, mainly applied to the refurbishment of housing. He also practised within the field of sustainable construction. These themes he combined in his research. He has participated in research also on households, housing and sustainability and on experimental eco-building. Since the early 2000s, his research focus is on strategic planning and governance, energy and climate issues, all under the umbrella term of urban sustainable development.
	Research Projects
	In 2010, Örjan is occupied with various projects in parallel. He is supervising a number of Masters’ Theses and Ph. D. students, he is responsible for the “Environment and Planning” track of a new Master’s programme and teaches the Masters’ course “Sustainable Planning and Design”. Furthermore, he is involved in a number of projects concerning urban sustainable development. For example, he is the leader of the research project ”Situations of Opportunity for City Transformation– towards sustainable resource use in three Stockholm City districts” (SitCit for short). The latter is a large project in cooperation with KTH Energy Technology, the University of West of England and ETH, Zürich, involving senior researchers as well as PhD students, and running between 2007 and 2012. Learn more on the projects web site www.kth.se/abe/forskning/sitcit
	Publications
	Papers published in refereed international journals Elfors S & Svane Ö 2008: Action Research for Sustainable Housing  Theoretical and Methodological Implications in Striving for Research as a Tool for Change; The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Vol 7, no 2; Roskilde University. Weingaertner C, Svane Ö & Brikell B 2008: Daladala buses deregulated – analyzing urbanization’s Situations of Opportunity throgh a Tanzanian example; International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, Vol 3, no 1; WIT Press. Svane Ö 2007: Situations of Opportunity – Hammarby Sjöstad and Stockholm City’s Process of Environmental Management; Accepted, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Wiley, Available at www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/110497535. Weingaertner C & Svane Ö 2006: MAMMUT – Managing the Metabolism of Urbanization: Testing theory through a pilot study of the Stockholm Underground; Sustainable Development, Vol 14, no 5; John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Svane Ö 2005: Useful Concepts or Eternal Truths? Reflections on generalisation based on experience from a case study; In Vestbro D U, Hürol Y & Wilkinsson N (eds): Methodologies in Housing Research; Urban International Press. Johansson R & Svane Ö 2002: Environmental Management in Large-scale Building Projects – Learning from Hammarby Sjöstad; Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Vol. 9, no 4, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Svane Ö 2002: Nordic Consumers and the Challenge for Sustainable Housing; Sustainable Development, Vol. 10, no 1, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Svane Ö 1997: Agenda 21 Practised in Swedish Housing Management – Results from a Multi-Case Study; In Eco-Management and Auditing, Vol. 4, Number 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Sustainable Development, Vol 14, no 5; John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Selected other publications, including books Svane Ö 2009: Helping, Informing or Coaxing the Consumer? – exploring Persuasive Technology as applied to households’ energy use; Varma A 2008: Domotics: Smart Technology, Smarter Homes; ICFAI. Svane Ö 2008: ...but most buildings are already there   Basic starting points for environmental management in the housing sector; Columbus F: Housing: Socioeconomic, Availability, and Development Issues; Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Elfors S & Svane Ö 2007: Från sopsortering till solfångartak Miljöstrategier för bostadsområden baserade på underhåll och samråd; www.formas.se/formas_shop/ItemView____3553.aspx? epslanguage=SV Larsen K & Svane Ö 2005: Routines and Communities of Practice in Public Environmental Procurement Processes; KTH/CESIS Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation, No 44; http://swopec.hhs.se/cesisp/abs/cesisp0044.htm Svane Ö 2004: Sparstigen och solvägen – energisparande, möjlighetsutrymme och nyckelsituationer i bostads- och servicesektorn; In Blücher G & Graninger G (Eds) 2004: Krävs energi i samhällsplaneringen?; Stiftelsen Vadstena Forum & Linköpings universitet. Svane, Ö 2002: Sustaining Human Settlement; Book Review in Open House International, vol. 27, no. 3 2002; The Urban International Press. Svane Ö 2002: Nordic Households and Sustainable Housing – Mapping Situations of Opportunity; TemaNord 2002: 523, Nordiska Ministerrådet. Svane Ö 2002: Från sparkrav till möjlighetsutrymme – bebyggelsen, miljömålen och energin; In Effektivare energi i bostäder – en antologi om framtidens styrmedel; Energimyndigheten, Naturvårdsverket, Boverket. Svane Ö & Wijkmark J 2002: När ekobyn kom till stan – Lärdomar från Ekoporten och Understenshöjden; Formas T1: 2002. Svane Ö & Wijkmark J 2002: När ekobyn kom till stan – om ekobyarna Ekoporten och Understenshöjden; In Bygg & Teknik, 5.2002. Svane Ö 2000: …de flesta hus finns redan Utgångspunkt för miljöarbetet; In ByggForskning, No 4-5 2000. Johansson R & Svane Ö. 2000: Hammarby Sjöstad – ett exempel på miljöstyrning i stora byggprojekt; In Bygg & Teknik, 4.2000. Svane Ö & Bergdahl E 1999: Att förvalta Ekoporten - fastighetsskötare och boende i en ekologisk ombyggnad berättar; Report in Miljöanpassat byggande i Kalmar, Kristianstad och Norrköpings bostadsbolag; Bygg för hälsa och miljö, Boverket. Svane Ö 1999: A Sustainable Neighbourhood – a Place and its People, its Services and Exchange with Nature; Ph.D. thesis, KTH Built Environment Analysis. Björkholm Y & Svane Ö 1998: Miljöarbete i bostadsförvaltning: Från mirakeltrasa till miljöledning; Byggforskningsrådet T7:1998.
	Teaching Activities
	Örjan is main supervisor for three PhD students and occasionally opponent or member of the examination board of PhD candidates. On the graduate level, he besides supervising Masters’ Theses is coordinator of the master’s course ”Planning the Sustainable City”. That course and the master’s course ”Energy Management” are contentwise closely related to the research project ”SitCit” mentioned above.
	Other Activities
	Since 2003, Örjan is a member of the ”Byggråd” (Advisory Board on Building) of SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Borås. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal Sustainable Development, Wiley & Sons Ltd. Finally, he is a Union representative at KTH.
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