Jaakko Vihola

Tampere University | UTA · Department of Civil Engineering

Purpose - Even as multi-story apartment building development proposals in existing neighbourhoods represent a substantial component of policy debate at local planning boards, there is limited evidence for the impact of such residential developments on surrounding apartment values. The void in knowledge is addressed in this study, and the impact...

The industrialised production of prefabricated daycare and school properties offer flexible alternatives for communities for provision of communal services. The paper investigates architectural qualities and financial solutions for rentable and relocatable education facilities in finland. in particular, the focus is on the communal interests in sol...

There is an ongoing debate in academia about the pros and cons of infill development. It has been said that dense city structure can lead to several agglomeration benefits and cost savings, whereas urban sprawl is usually seen as a negative phenomenon supporting an unsustainable lifestyle and leading to increasing municipal expenditures. Contrad...

The purpose of this paper is to study the economic feasibility of rentable prefabricated spatial units as a part of the public real estate procurement strategy. Ensuring the resource effectiveness of the municipal real estate procurement is a matter of great significance. In 2013, the gross investments of the Finnish municipalities were approxim...

This paper presents a bottom-up model for studying the heat loss rateof the building stock.The model is a step towards more complex building-stock power modeling,whose goal is topredictthe sources and the amount of demand response potentialunderdifferent conditions. The heat loss rateisthefractionof thermal power needed to compensate for the heat l...

This research study investigates one of the most central questions in urban studies: what impact does the relative share of rented flats have on residential property values within the neighbourhood? We use a dataset on residential property transactions in Helsinki, Vantaa and Espoo covering the period from January 1999 to December 2014. The sample...

The paper presents a calculation and visualization approach for energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from residential stock. The used calculation method is based on a bottom-up approach and is implemented in a case district. The visualization of the energy and emission results employs geographical information system (GIS) techniques. We show two...

Housing and different buildings cause roughly one third of direct greenhouse gas emissions in Finland. The so called 20-20-20 targets set by the European Union encourage seeking efficient paths towards improved energy efficiency and thus reduced greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors. Residential building stock simulations on a national level are...