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Seppo Junnila

Biography

Dr Seppo Junnila is a Professor of Real Estate Business at the real estate business unit at the department of surveying, Aalto university school of science and technology, Finland. He holds two docent positions one in Real Estate Life Cycle Management at Helsinki University of Technology and another in Life Cycle Economy of Built Environment at Tampere University of Technology. He also has a Doctor of Science, Licentiate of Science and Master of Science degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology. In addition, he has a 1-year diploma in Environmental Management from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. Dr. Junnila has also worked several times as a visiting scholar in the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University.

Before joining the academy, Dr. Junnila worked in numerous positions in consulting industry, for example, as a Head of Business Development and a Department Manager. He has also worked as a Business Director at Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra).

Dr Junnila's research focuses on life-cycle technologies and management, sustainable buildings, industrial ecology and lean management in real estate and services industries. He has initialized and managed several major research projects with more than thirty industrial partners. Currently he is an instructor of a group of Ph.D. student in these areas.

He is a recipient of the Young Scientist Center of Excellence award from Helsinki University of Technology. He has also received the Best Dissertation of the Year grant from the Association of Finnish Civil Engineers and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Fellowship, the Association of Finnish Civil Engineers Fellowship, the Research Foundation of Helsinki University of Technology Fellowship, and the Real Estate Education and Training Institute Fellowship.

Areas of Interest

• Real Estate Business Innovations
• Climate change and Real Estates
• Life cycle management and assessment
• Systems Approach
• Infrastructure Systems
• Sustainable Neighborhoods Development
• Lean Management

Teaching

• Maa-20.1125 Johdanto kiinteistöliiketoimintaan
• Maa-20.3388 Kiinteistöliiketoiminnan syventävä opintojakso
• Maa-0.3000 Maanmittaustieteiden metodologia

Major Research Projects

•     Applying Lean Management to Improve the Green Flow in FM (LeanGreen)
•     Carbon Neutral Neighborhood Development (CarbonOFF)
•     Environmental and economic life cycle modeling of products in light and service industry companies (LIHAS)
•     Environmental Management Services in Business Premises (KYKY)
•     Environmental Effects of Office Buildings in the Service and ICT Industries (TOIMI)

Selected Publications

Junnila, Seppo: Environmental Impact and Intensity of Processes in Selected Services Companies. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2009. Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 422-437.

Junnila, Seppo: Life cycle management of energy-consuming products in companies using IO-LCA. International Journal of LCA, 2008. Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 432-439.

Majamaa, Wisa; Junnila, Seppo; Doloi, Hemanta; Niemistö, Emma: End-user oriented public-private partnerships in real estate industry. International, Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2008. Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-17.

Nousiainen, Mikko; Junnila, Seppo: End-user requirements for green facility managemen. Journal of Facilities Management, 2008. Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 266-278.

Junnila, Seppo: The potential effect of end-users on energy conservation in office buildings. Facilities, 2007. Vol. 25, No. 7/8, pp. 329-339.

Junnila, Seppo: Environmentally Significant Processes of Consulting, Banking and Facility Management Companies in Finland and the U.S. International  Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2007. No. 2, pp. 18-27.

Junnila, Seppo: Environmental Significant Process of Service Industry Companies in Europe and U.S. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2007, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 18-27.

Junnila, Seppo: Alternative Scenarios for Managing the Environmental Performance of a Service Sector Company. Journal of industrial ecology, 2006.  Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 113-131.

Junnila, Seppo; Horvath, Arpad; Guggemos, Agela: Life-cycle assessment of office buildings in Europe and the U.S. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2006. Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 10-17.

Junnila, Seppo: Empirical Comparison of Process and Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment in Service Industries. Environmental Science and Technology, 2006. Vol. 40, No. 22, pp. 7070-7076.

Junnila, Seppo; Horvath, A.: Life Cycle Environmental Effects of an Office Building. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, 2003. Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 157-166.

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