Lund's new district Brunnshög is emerging northeast of the city. Research facilities ACES and MAX IV Science Village will be built between them and to the south of these, closer to the centre of Lund, housing areas will be built. The assessment is that it will be as many as 40,000 people who will live and work here. In December 2020, the tramway started running from central Lund to the area, thus laying the foundation for fewer people to get to Brunnshög by car.

Lund has a tradition of coming up with innovations - the respirator, bluetooth technology and the artificial kidney are just a few of them. The idea is that Brunnshögområdet will build on this tradition. As the facilities will bring together scientists from all over the world, the conditions for new ideas will be created. The urban environment in Brunnshög will be designed in such a way that it contributes to the exchange of knowledge and the development of ideas by creating places where researchers, entrepreneurs and business can meet. In Science Village, offices and short-term housing will be built for the visiting researchers, and Sweden's largest Science Center and a concert hall will also be built here.

At the same time, work is underway to create an inspiring and sustainable living environment for everyone who will live in the district. Sustainability is the focus of the new development, and the municipality of Lund has found ways to stimulate innovation. The Brunnshögcontract from 2013 is a collaboration between Lund Municipality, The power ring, Lund Purification Plant and VA South around sustainable solutions for energy, water, waste and sewage and the result of this is both the garbage collection system and Low-temperature district heating network of the power ring . The municipal land is sold to stakeholders through land allocation competitions, where sustainability and the height of innovation are assessed.

In the Brunnshögs project, people from the technical administration, the city building office and the municipal office cooperate.

“Together we are developing a neighbourhood that will increase value in the long term,” says Eva Dalman, project manager at Brunnshögsprojekt. By value increase we mean, of course, economically, so that Lund's land holdings are sold at the highest possible price, but above all it concerns a high quality of life so that Lund will continue to be an interesting city to live and work in.

Many of the residential buildings will have a bike pool, their own solar power generation, opportunities for carpool memberships and their own cultivation. Each property often has its own solutions, such as innovations such as legionella killers and wastewater heat exchangers but also sustainable solutions such as eco-optimized concrete frames and a grocery store with site-grown vegetables. In one of the houses, the residents will be able to enjoy a natural pool, which is a pool that is purified solely with the help of plants. In the Gryningen quarter, the ambition is to design the area with gender equality in focus — and extra emphasis is placed on children and young people, but there will also be room for more social sustainability and an app that tips on circular choices.

Another way to think new is to weave the cultivation landscape into the urban environment. The parks should have edible plants, there should be crops in courtyards and roofs and in the public street spaces perennials and shrubs should be planted instead of lawns. There will be extra purification of stormwater directed to ponds in a stormwater park in Kunskapsparken and in collaboration with IKDC, LKF and VA Syd and WIN, various ideas have been developed for how to use rainwater in the area. When an old road was broken up, the masses were used as fill in the new road and along an avenue two different kinds of trees are planted to increase resistance to disease.

You can read more about the projects here.

Construction of Södra Brunnshög began in 2015. After that, central Brunnshög will be built.

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