Rita Lavikka, D.Sc. (Tech.) is a Research Team Leader in Circular Built Intelligence and an IPMA Level C certified project manager at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Her research focuses on digitalising and decarbonising the built environment. Over her 22-year research career, she has published articles on the digital disruption of the AEC industry, the co-creation of digital services, and data platforms and ecosystems related to sustainability. Her Scopus H-index is 17. She has coordinated several international R&D projects, such as the Horizon Europe ACCORD project, which digitalised building permit processes using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other data sources, and automated compliance checking using Artificial Intelligence and other methods to advance a sustainable built environment. Before joining VTT, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University, a visiting researcher at Stanford University and co-founded a consultancy company that focuses on facilitating digital transformation in the built environment. She has received scholarships, best paper awards and a highly commended journal article in the 2018 Emerald Literati Awards.
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