Arlind Dervishaj

Arlind Dervishaj is completing his PhD and continuing as a postdoctoral fellow at KTH. His research interests include circular construction, building science, and digital innovations. His work addresses the transition toward a circular and regenerative built environment. Arlind's doctoral research at KTH, conducted as part of the EU Horizon 2020 ReCreate project, focused on the Nordic context and Sweden, exploring digital workflows, traceability, BIM modeling, and LCA for the reuse of precast concrete elements from deconstructed buildings. He also contributes as an invited expert and committee member at the Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS/TK 191 AG2) for the development of the Swedish reuse standard for concrete. Additionally, his work bridges circular economy with sustainable design. He has developed new daylighting methodologies, such as Sunlight Autonomy, which are highly relevant to high-latitude Nordic regions, as well as to dense urban environments globally. As cities densify, the building envelopes most evolve too; his research introduced the Solar Circularity Indicator, a novel metric linking daylight design with circular strategies in façade design and engineering. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) on a project investigating daylight within a circular and sustainable built environment, funded by the Daylight Academy. Prior to joining KTH, Arlind accumulated international experience as an architect across Europe, including serving as Head of Sustainable and Computational Design at ARCO Architecture Company, Finland’s largest architectural firm.