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    • Creating an infrastructure for the future

    Mistra InfraMaint is a research programme focusing on smart maintenance. Our vision is a sustainable infrastructure that is safe and available around the clock.

    Effective and smart maintenance

    The programme’s focus is on condition assessments, forecasts and decision support for investments, financing and business models as well as how municipal processes and organisations can be developed to best meet the major investment needs facing society.

    Creating an infrastructure for the future

    We have built a strong consortium with researchers from institutes and academic institutions. Participating municipalities are especially important for the programme. Senior researchers are supplemented with doctoral students who will largely work in the municipal organisations. This means that research is based on needs and that municipalities have increased opportunity to absorb new research.

    We want to halve the competence shortage

    Competence requirements are high. The Mistra InfraMaint programme aims to halve the competence shortage. That makes knowledge sharing a very important part of the programme. We plan for both seminars and web-based educational sections, as well as developing new approaches and methods to make knowledge more accessible and the area maintenance more attractive.

    We will make a difference

    News

    Digitalization in the water sector – our PhD student defends her thesis!

    Digitalization is expected to fundamentally change all parts of society, including the water and wastewater industry. But is digital technology equally pervasive across all sectors, and what might a digitized water industry look like?

    “There are very interesting opportunities for innovation in the water industry”

    The water and wastewater sector faces many challenges, requiring both new technologies and new ways of working. But many water and wastewater organizations are small and lack suff

    “In the end, everyone who travels by train is affected”

    With the help of a digital twin, replacing old switches can be more efficient, easier and cheaper. Our new PhD student Karl Norberg has smarter maintenance in mind, something that

    New project on AI in the water sector – a strategic roadmap

    This fall, we are launching several new projects. The first to be granted are three that in different ways show the way forward for the water sector. We take a closer look at one o

    New micro learning

    Nasik Najar presents some of her key findings from her doctoral thesis on efficient management of water utilities. The thesis focuses on analyzing the performance of Swedish water utilities by using a sustainability index tool.

    Track switches in focus – new project addresses the problem

    Many switches are too old and cause disruption to traffic. At the same time, replacing a switch is laborious and time-consuming, and many older ones still work well and should not

    Learn more about our projects

    We run over 30 projects within three categories: sustainable business models organisation, sustainable competence building and sustainable decision support.

    Projects

    Publications

    Reports, articles, books and yearly summits  – halfway through our program we already have an impressing list of publications.

    Publications

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