Rita Lavikka

Rita Lavikka, D.Sc. (Tech.) is a Research Team Leader in Value-driven Sustainable Construction and IPMA-C certified project manager at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. She coordinates the Horizon Europe ACCORD project that aims at digitalising building permit and compliance checking processes using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other data sources to advance a sustainable built environment. She also leads and coordinates other R&D projects supporting the twin transition; EU Green Deal Goals and digital initiatives. One of them, besides the ACCORD project, is the Nordic BIM4LCA project, which digitalises the building life-cycle assessment based on BIM. Before joining VTT, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University, visited Stanford University twice as a visiting researcher and co-founded a consultancy company that focuses on facilitating digital transformation in the built environment. Her research focuses on digitalising and decarbonising the built environment. She has co-authored articles on the digital disruption of the AEC industry, the co-creation of digital services, and data platforms and ecosystems around sustainability. She has received scholarships, best paper awards, and highly commended journal article 2018 Emerald Literati Awards.