BLINK-project
BLINK-project (1/2026–12/2027) examines structural overconsumption in construction, arising from entrenched norms, guidelines, decision-making structures, and incentives. Concrete is used as a lens to show how structures and value chains hinder resource efficiency and how they can be redirected toward ecological, economic, and technical sustainability.
Implementers
The project is led by the Building Information Foundation. Co-implementers are the University of Tampere, AFRY Finland Oy and the BIOS Research Unit.
The multidisciplinary approach combines scientific analyses with practical expertise in construction and infrastructure. The research includes literature reviews, case studies, and BIOS workshops where stakeholders assess drivers of concrete overconsumption and future trajectories.
Key outputs: a systemic map of barriers and opportunities; a tested model project illustrating decision-making points, indicators, contractual and design solutions that promote resource efficiency and circularity; policy recommendations; communication materials, impact events, and a knowledge base for guidelines
Funded by Nessling Foundation
The Nessling Foundation speeds up the sustainability transformation that protects natural systems by funding research and science-based action. In 2025 Nessling Foundation grant an additional million euros through the Murros-call to projects that generate deeper understanding, new perspectives, and science-based solutions for breaking away from structural overconsumption.
The ResPro project, led by the University of Helsinki, and the BLINK project, led by the Building Information Foundation received €500,000 in funding from the Nessling Foundation’s Murros-call, which aims to generate knowledge and science-based solutions for breaking away from structural overconsumption.
Structural overconsumption refers to a situation where the institutional and cultural structures of society steer us towards unsustainable use of natural resources.
The root causes of overconsumption do not lie with individual experts, organisations or technologies, but really in the very structure of our society.
Construction is a major consumer of natural resources both globally and in Finland. Globally, around half of all the natural resources we use go into construction, and the sector generates roughly 30 per cent of all waste. Concrete is the most commonly used contruction material, and its environmental impacts are significant.
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