Abstract This report is made in cooperation with the municipality of Vasteras and technical committee staff. The report addresses several topics that affect fuel stations in Vasteras. The report contains two parts, first is a inventory that review all stations in the area to be addressed. The inventory is made with consideration to various things that geographic situation, what companies are represented and what level of service stations have. And the second part of the report, is done with the analysis of how it looks in daily situations review. Then the new positions around Vasteras is chosen, which would be attractive to the new location of stations. The new positions were evaluated in various ways with a variety of policy issues that had been set, it is important to have a holistic view of how a new establishment affect the surrounding environment. The hope of this report is to create a document that may be useful to my commission in the future. It is intended to be a comprehensive document that addresses the fuel situation at large. It is not meant it to go into the detail level, but it is an overview. One conclusion that emerged from this work is that Vasteras have good accessibility to the fuel stations. Most fuels are available in one or more stations and all the major petrol companies are represented in the city. There are also a number of new positions that could serve as a good place for new locations.

During the last years of construction boom the prices on contractors for installations have escalated. According to Statistiska Centralbyråns, E84, the costs for installation contractors have increased with 48 percent on electrics and 18, 6 percent on VS from January 2005 to January 2008. This rapport aim on clarifying certain questions about the increasing prices by a closer analyze on the development in Västerås and how different contractors sets their prices. This rapport is based on interviews with several actors in the building trade. When it comes to material, there are many intermediaries from manufacturers to final customer. It can be as many as six intermediaries consisting of manufacture, general agent, agent, wholesale dealer, installation contractor and building contractor. These intermediaries create quite big additional costs for the final customer. In this industry the use of big discount systems are very common which makes it very difficult for the final customer to know the real cost for the products. By having these big discounts which creates gaps in the prices, the profit on the material can be large without anyone noticing. Supply and demand determine prices in many industries and so it also seems to be in the building industry. There has been high pressure on the market during the last years and a comparison in the rapport between new produced residential blocks in Västerås and nearby cities shows on a big difference depending on location. The existence of these diversities may have several natural causes as standards, technical solutions, number of apartments, etc. but it can also depend on the market situation in different cities. To decrease the total cost for a residential project there has to be more trust between all who are involved in the project. Partnering can be a great solution on this problem where everyone involved works with open book and towards the same goal, to decrease the total cost instead of just thinking on their own profit.

Detta examensarbete handlar om utformning av ett kvarter som är gjort på uppdrag av Peab Sverige AB. Kvarteret Negern ligger i Tingvallastaden i centrala Karlstad och idag finns på platsen en gammal tryckeribyggnad och parkeringsgarage. Området gruppen utformat är 2600 m2 stort och skall inrymma ett 60-tal lägenheter. Målgruppen för arbetet är hushåll med två personer, därför kom det att bli tvåor och treor i alla plan utom i det översta där det kommer att vara två fyror. Arbetet resulterade i två punkthus (se figur 1) om åtta respektive nio våningar i varje och ovanpå dessa en stor takterrass. Fasaderna består av ljus puts och bottenplan av granitplattor, för att ge tyngd åt byggnaderna och för att motverka klotter. På innergården finns det bland annat fontän, grill och lekplatser. Byggnaderna omringas av staket och buskar. Parkeringsfrågan löstes genom att använda det befintliga garaget och schakta ur under Negern 6 och 10 för att göra parkeringsgarage och förrådsutrymme i ett plan. Tillgång till hiss finns i båda byggnaderna och den går från garaget upp till terrassen på taket. I det ena huset kommer det att finnas tvättstuga, samlingslokal, gym samt två stycken övernattningslägenheter som de boende kommer att ha tillgång till. Gruppen ville skapa en känsla av trygghet och välbefinnande inom området. Detta gjordes genom att belysa gångar samt undvika höga buskar. Parkeringsgaraget skall inte ha några mörka vrår utan belysas så människorna kan känna sig trygga. Arbetet är utfört med hjälp av Google SketchUp 6 som är ett program för 3D-ritning. Fördelen med detta program var att gruppen kunde konstruera de befintliga byggnaderna så att de blev så autentiska som möjligt. Därmed blev kvarteret mer verklighetstroget och det blir enklare att orientera sig samt se hur byggnationen passar in i kvarteret. Visualiseringen av kvarteret presenteras i form av 3D-bilder.

Examensarbete genomfördes i samråd med Helenius konsultbyrå. Syftet med arbetet var att utreda och undersöka möjligheterna att förbättra driftekonomi och inneklimat på Radiohusets kontorsbyggnad som är beläget på Gärdet i de centrala delarna av Stockholm. Bakgrunden till arbetet var att det fanns relativt stora problem med inneklimatet i denna del av byggnaden under både sommar och vinter. Vintertid upplevde en stor del av personalen som vistades i byggnaden dragproblem och sommartid är inneklimatet alldeles för varmt för att personalen kan jobba effektivt. En annan del av problemet var att stora mängder energi användes för temperera byggnaden vintertid. Den stora energianvändningen beror till stor del av en otät och dåligt isolerad fasad. Huvuddelen av arbete gick ut på att kartlägga energianvändningen och hitta besparingsförslag för energianvändningen samt att ge förslag på klimatförbättrande åtgärder. Energikartläggningen genomfördes dels genom att bygga upp byggnaden i energisimuleringsprogrammet IDA- Klimat och Energi 3.0 och därefter genomföra parameterstudier på möjliga

Efforts to achieve a moisture proof construction process have proved to be considerably complicated, despite the knowledge and awareness that now exists within the moisture field. Materials, documents, templates and checklists are designed to be accessed but are not used anyway. This may be because such effort has not been prioritized and properly requirements have not existed from the commissioner of a building. This report illustrates how the commissioner of a building project can achieve a moisture proof building process by increasing knowledge, moisture proof planning, and implementation of security moisture routines. Proposals are given on how the commissioner of a building project can work to consistently bring a moisture proof building process in all stages. The difficulty with regular moisture proof efforts, the authors believe is mainly due to the following points:       Many different design solutions.       Lack of experience feedback.       Lack of communication.       Financial incentives.       Attitudes. The interviews in the report have conducted with the help of a qualitative analysis, while the survey has been done using a quantitative analytical method. The report's theoretical frame of reference is characterized by literature studies together with experts in the field and the reports they have developed at their research. A book has also been written where some of the most commonly moisture damages have been described. The book is written in a simple and pedagogical approach because it is primarily aimed to increase knowledge among construction workers and others with an interest in the moisture subject. By carry out continually efforts in right direction, we believe that it is possible to build moisture proof buildings.

Den 4 september 2010 inviger Västerås konstmuseum tillsammans med Västmanlands läns museum sina första utställningar i lokalerna som är anpassade för museiverksamhet och tillgängliga för besökare. Det är av största vikt att följa byggnadslagsstiftningen när man planerar byggnader och senare bygger dem. Man ska skapa sådana byggnader där människor med nedsatt rörelse- och orienteringsförmåga har möjlighet att utnyttja lokalerna.  En ombyggnation av ASEAs gamla industribyggnad har resulterats i att man har åstadkommit en tillgänglig och modern museilokal i kvarteret Mimer på Karlsgatan 2 i Västerås.   Syftet med detta examensarbete har varit att visa vilka tillgänglighetslösningar som har använts i den nya museibyggnaden på Karlsgatan i Västerås. En litteraturstudie har utförts för att gå igenom de krav som ställs på museer. Den informationen har hämtats från BBR (Boverkets byggregler) och även andra böcker som handlar om tillgängligheten i den fysiska miljön. Dessutom har egna observationer och studier över arkitektritningar gjorts för att uppnå en större förståelse över de lösningar som använts i den nya byggnaden. Fokus har lagts på den fysiska tillgängligheten i de delar av byggnaden som kommer att användas av besökande samt på miljön utanför själva museet.   Rapportens resultat beskriver gångvägar i den yttre miljön, parkerings- och angöringsplatser, entréer, dörrar, korridorer och toaletter. Resultatet omfattar även hiss, trappa, ramp, reception, kafé, butik och kapprum. De båda museernas utställningshallar och pedagogiska lokaler med intilliggande hörsal ingår även i resultatet.   En av slutsatser som har kunnat dras av resultatet är att ”det tillgängliga tänkandet” har varit en av de högsta prioriteterna under hela planerings- och byggprocessen. Den nya byggnaden kommer att bidra till att en mer omfattande verksamhet i museet blir möjlig. Den blir även mer tillgänglig och användbar för allmänheten.

<p>In our daily life we are surrounded by different kind of risks and we constantly strive for better methods to quantify and in the prolongation manage these risks. Every activity involves some risks and there are some kinds of risks and some level of risks that we are unwilling to accept. We all like to live a life that is free from risks, but that is impossible.</p><p>The word risk has a lot of different interpretations. In this thesis we shall let risk stand for the combination of random or uncertain events with negative consequences for human health, life and welfare and for the environment together with some measures of the likelihood of such events. We believe this is the prevailing concept or understanding of risk; as the probability of an event followed by some negative consequences or activities of that event.</p><p>In risk analysis one tries to recognize the nature of various risks and to assess the magnitude of the risks. In the risk analysis it is very important to know what system to consider and this is not self evident in many cases. The situation is clearly different for planning and/or building a system compared with running the same system in a real time state. The system that is going to be the subject to the risk analysis must be clearly defined and the limitations and the boundaries of the system must be set. It is very important to ensure that all persons involved in a risk analysis have a common understanding of the system being considered, including relevant operations.</p><p>During the past decades many studies have been carried out on risk related topics and the society has showed a significant interest in the field of risk analysis. Risk analysis is the interdisciplinary field of science that combines results and knowledge of probability theory, mathematical statistics, engineering, medicine, philosophy, psychology, economics and other applied disciplines.</p><p>In this thesis we will give some examples of different risk analyses carried out basically within two areas. The first part of the thesis (paper 1- paper V) describes different risk analyses carried out in the area of transportation. This is an area with large differences between the different modes of transportation in respect to, for example number of users, number of accidents, magnitude of the accidents and accessible data. The latter part of the thesis (paper VI and paper VII) describes two risk analyses carried out in the field of medicine. Medicine is a science, which has used methods from the area of risk analysis for a long time. The different papers will be used to discuss risk analysis as a tool in decision-making.</p> / QC 20100616

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<p>The prevailing urban planning strategy in the 21st century in many European cities is urbanisa-tion by densification. The strategy, which has obvious consequences for green and open space, has commonly been described as “Compact city” or “Smart growth”. Densification has mainly been initiated by large building companies, often in conflict with local lobby groups with strong social capital. This has frequently led to deadlocks in planning, especially concerning green space exploitation. This paper suggests new tools for understanding and measuring how urban structuring affects open space accessibility, not only because urban structure distributes open space to people, it also creates users and stakeholders.</p><p>Since the 1950:s Swedish urban planning has been led by normative open space guidelines developed by research and national ministries, guidelines that are still present but has lost in power. Generally these guidelines are based on either density, i.e. sqm green space/person within a defined area, or range, i.e. maximum metric distance to a minimum park size. Planning practice has essentially dealt with size and qualities, often confusing, in micro economic terms, use value and non-use value (e.g. the “ecological”). This paper introduces new ways of integrating use value (sociotop) and orientation (axial lines) into new measures of open space accessibility. A new GIS-application “The Place Syntax Tool” (PST), developed within the research project, makes it possible to calculate the ‘topological’ open space accessibility from every place (address or plot) in an urban area, current or planned. ‘Topological’ accessibility analyses handles the “modified area unit problem” (MAUP) discussed in geography.</p><p>A questionnaire from 2001 (TEMO) states that, citizens in some dense inner-city-districts experience higher park and nature accessibility than in some low-density “green” sub-urbs in Stockholm. This peculiar result was the starting point of testing old and new measures in ten different city districts, using PST. The conclusion is that a new measure, which take range, orientation, green space size and number of use values into account, correlates consid-erably better to the questionnaire (R2=0,75 p<0,001), than any conventional measures. It shows that the 19th century “deformed” inner city grid with defined urban parks connected by green boulevards more effectively distributes open space to many citizens compared with the “interrupted” grid and segregated green structure of the post war “modernist” suburbs.</p><p>Another finding is that axial lines seem to capture movement to and within open space better than any metric measure. Correlation was found when comparing observed pedes-trian flow and calculated population accessibility (Södermalm dij=3, R2=0,682, p<0,001; Hög-dalen dij=6, R2=0,442, p<0,001). Correlation was also found when comparing a questionnaire asking “How often do you go to your favourite green area?” (USK 2002) and axial line distance between all addresses in the study areas and the closest green area (R2=0,77, p=0,018). These results can also be explained by the Space syntax integration analysis which shows that the green spaces in the inner city grid is much more integrated than in the post war suburbs. This means that orientation plays a big part in determining if, and how often people visit open spaces.</p><p>Consequently, better measures could promote understanding of open space planning as an asset to city development, help overcome the deadlock in densification planning and change the common opinion of open space and “green” from a static to a dynamic urban entity.</p>

Video mediated communication (VMC) is a two way real time audio and video communication between remote places. VMC has the potential to be applied favourably to many activities, services and functions in smart homes. The concept of smart homes refers to homes equipped with technological systems and appliances enabling centralised or remotely controllable integrated functionalities and services. The main question for the current research work is formulated accordingly: How can spaces for video mediated communication be designed and integrated into smart homes? The governing idea is that there are two main perceptions of space in the design and integration of video mediated communication into smart homes. One concerns the conception of private and public spaces, the other relates to the idea of physical and digital spaces. The interrelationship between these two concepts is supposed to become important when VMC is considered for smart home applications. This thesis is written from an architectural perspective. It refers to the functionalistic paradigm here defined basically as the set of essential functions of the home that have to be solved in order to achieve good dwellings. The function of the home can be described as the organisation of space and furniture to support activities and processes in and around it. The thesis is based upon five papers and a covering text providing background, analysis and reflection, as well as ideas on further development. The research method can be described as mainly explorative and design-oriented. A principal result from the study is that a novel modality of space, the public digital space, appears when VMC is introduced into smart homes. Further, it is advocated that this modality is a relevant issue for the architectural profession and architectural research.