The Innovation Atlas maps where and how innovation happens in the Danish construction sector, what drives it, and what it takes for new solutions to be repeated and scaled. It presents insights from developers who are already changing practice and identifies replicability as one of the key solutions for turning innovation into lasting industry impact.
The Innovation Atlas shows that the challenge in construction is not a lack of ideas, technologies, or ambition. The challenge is that innovation rarely moves beyond individual projects. Solutions are developed, tested, and then lost when a project ends. This creates a structural problem. Even the most promising innovations fail to generate lasting impact because they are not designed to be reused.
The Atlas points to a different approach. When innovation is designed for replicability, solutions can be applied across projects, improved over time, and gradually become part of standard practice. This shift, from one-off experimentation to repeatable systems, is what enables real change at scale.
“The key question is not whether a solution works in a single project. The key question is whether it is used again. Only when innovation is repeated across portfolios do we begin to change construction at scale.”
Across the Atlas, a range of cases demonstrates how this can be done in practice. From new organisational models and portfolio-based strategies to the development of repeatable building systems and processes, these examples show different ways of making innovation reusable. Together, these insights outline a clear direction forward. If the sector is to address rising costs, resource constraints, and climate impact, innovation must not only be developed. It must be designed to repeat.
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For more information about Innovation Atlas, partners or cases please contact Chief Innovation & Science Officer, Ditte Lysgaard Vind at dvi@bloxhub.org, and Project Manager, Applied Science, Gertrud Marie Grabbert at ggr@bloxhub.org