LKF High-tech house Xplorion, offers accommodation in a smart house filled with smart building technology solutions combined with services that facilitate a climate-smart and healthy life.

At the end of 2020, LKF's Xplorion multi-family building was completed on southern Brunnshög. In the house there are 54 apartments where the residents have the opportunity to influence their climate and environmental footprint in a way that has not been possible before. The house produces and stores its own green electricity and sells the surplus to the grid. The smart ventilation and construction technology means that tenants will probably never have to have their elements switched on. The house takes on all the heat, so hardly any new energy needs to be supplied to the apartment to heat the apartment. The hot water is heated through the excess heat of the MAX IV research institute.

“The building technology, the house itself and the way of life are good for the climate, the environment, the economy and health - sustainability is the cornerstone of our innovative effort to face the future,” said Dennis Kerkhof, building project manager at LKF.

To make life easier by bike instead of car, Xplorion looks different from what we might be used to. The house has a wide elevator and spacious attic aisles. This way, tenants can take their bikes all the way up to the apartment door. The attic aisles have space for bicycle parking. The car-free house does not have any car parks for the residents, and in this way the material consumption was reduced. Reducing the use of building materials in itself reduces the negative impact on the environment and climate.

The solar cells on the roof can be used to charge the vehicles in the car pool and the e-bike pool. Residents can smartly search for the best and climate-smart transport options through the mobility service EC2B, where public transport, car pool and bike pool are made available via an app.

“At LKF, we are driving innovation forward by demonstrating, via Xplorion, how to build smarter with sustainability in mind, and at the same time offer accommodation that allows tenants to live climate-smart lives. A service like EC2B fits perfectly into that mindset, Dennis Kerkhof thought.

- We want to make it easy for people to live without their own car and use more sustainable transport options, continued Björn Wendle, CEO at EC2B Mobility.

To develop, adapt and demonstrate the mobility service in Xplorion, the Viable Cities innovation programme supported a project in which LKF, EC2B, Byggnadsfirman Otto Magnusson and Future by Lund participated. EC2B is being developed together with the users in Xplorion and the goal is that the service will then be able to spread to more property owners and additional cities.

- In the project there is an interesting mix of actors who together have extensive expertise in both real estate and mobility, ss Björn Wendle. I am convinced that we will be able to create a good content of mobility services for LKF's tenants. We also hope that the project will make it easy for more property owners to integrate a mobility solution into their real estate projects.

The project lasted two years. Viable Cities is part of the strategic innovation areas initiative funded by Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas.

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