Tåsenhjemmet with sky-high climate ambitions - uses Interaxo.

World-class ambitions.
Construction of Tåsenhjemmet began in January 2022 and is scheduled for completion in November 2023. The completed four-storey care home will house 130 resident rooms and a day care center with a total gross area of 14,615 sqm. In addition, there is a high focus on the environment and sustainability, including:

• Environmental certification: BREAAM Excellent.
• The entire project will be built in solid wood
• Tåsenhjemmet will be a model project in FutureBuilt
• nZeb (low-emission building)

It has become the new normal for sustainability to be an integral part of a construction project. BREAAM environmental certification is the most widespread in Norway and has different levels, from the lowest "pass" to the highest "Excellent" and "Outstanding". Tåsenhjemmet is aiming for the top.

"In our contract with Oslobygg KF, we as the general contractor have, among other things, committed ourselves to delivering BREEAM Excellent. This is the first time I have been involved in a construction project where the client has such a massive focus on the environment. This is definitely not a greenwashing project - they really invested in it," says Augestad.

What does this mean in practice?

"This involves, among other things, a lot of mapping and we are committed to handling waste in a very responsible way. We have a sorting rate of 95%, which is very high. The construction site must also produce low emissions and we must focus on purchasing and how we handle materials in the process," says Augestad and continues.

"It really plays into the whole project. The building must have low energy consumption, and when we buy materials we have to take transport distances into account. For Tåsenhjemmet, we've purchased solid wood from a factory in Åmot, and opted out of suppliers from Austria, for example. We probably wouldn't have given such things as much thought in a project without these requirements. Price and ability to deliver would probably have played a stronger role, so we're forced to rethink and be more environmentally conscious in the choices we make."

"In relation to the BREEAM standard, we rely on a tool like Interaxo for documentation and quality assurance.

The local environment must also be taken into account when Tåsenhjemmet is built.

"We have our own production of energy here with 28 energy wells that are connected to a heat pump and solar panels on the roof. When it rains, the water will be handled on our own plot. We have even committed to returning the protected flower Hvitmure, which previously grew here on Tåsen, to the plot."

Meeting the challenge with Interaxo as a project tool
There is no doubt that Tåsenhjemmet is thinking big when it comes to building for the future. Such ambitions also place high demands on project management and, not least, documentation to ensure that all requirements are met. Interaxo has been chosen as the project tool and will help to ensure stable progress in the project.

"In my experience, planning and process requirements mean that everything has to be documented to a much greater extent than before. We use Interaxo Field in connection with SHA and RUH to quality-assure the work that PEAB performs," says Augestad and continues,

Image: This winter, Tribia's Interaxo Field team was on site at the Tåsenhjemmet construction site.

"Our project hotel is Interaxo Project, which is a clear improvement compared to the project hotels I've been involved with before - because we can communicate there. I've been used to working with project hotels that have a "stupid" folder structure, but here we can use the project hotel to replace a lot of confusing mailing. Now everything is where it should be, linked to the case, document, drawing or whatever."

Augestad can say that he received the inspection report with 2-3 deviations the night before at the latest. Here he can enter his comments, send information to those who need to be informed and be sure that everything is stored and available in the history for everyone with reading rights.

"In relation to the BREEAM standard, we also depend on a tool like Interaxo for documentation and quality assurance," concludes Augestad, and once again emphasizes how conscious they must be of details in order for the project to achieve its goals.

Augestad is clearly engaged as he talks, and reveals that he himself is an environmental activist who has been picking up plastic since the 1970s.

"It's good to be able to contribute at a professional level to a more sustainable world," he concludes.