Dennis Johansson – författare

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Cold Climate HVAC conference, which was held in Kiruna, Sweden in 2018. The conference highlighted key technologies and processes that allow scientists, designers, engineers, manufacturers and other decision makers in cold climate regions to achieve good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) with a minimum use of energy and other resources. The conference addressed various technical, economic and social aspects of buildings and HVAC systems in new and renovated buildings. This proceedings volume gathers peer-reviewed papers by a diverse and international range of authors and showcases perspectives and practices in cold climate building design from around the globe. The following major aspects, which include both fundamental and theoretical research as well as applications and case studies, are covered: (1) Energy and power efficiency and low-energy buildings; (2) Renovatingbuildings; (3) Efficient HVAC components; (4) Heat pumps and geothermal systems; (5) Municipal and city energy systems; (6) Construction management; (7) Buildings in operation; (8) Building simulation; (9) Reference data; (10) Transdisciplinary connections and social aspects; (11) Indoor environments and health; (12) Moisture safety and water damage; (13) Codes, regulations, standards and policies; and (14) Other aspects of buildings in cold climates.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Cold Climate HVAC conference, which was held in Kiruna, Sweden in 2018. The conference highlighted key technologies and processes that allow scientists, designers, engineers, manufacturers and other decision makers in cold climate regions to achieve good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) with a minimum use of energy and other resources. The conference addressed various technical, economic and social aspects of buildings and HVAC systems in new and renovated buildings. This proceedings volume gathers peer-reviewed papers by a diverse and international range of authors and showcases perspectives and practices in cold climate building design from around the globe. The following major aspects, which include both fundamental and theoretical research as well as applications and case studies, are covered: (1) Energy and power efficiency and low-energy buildings; (2) Renovatingbuildings; (3) Efficient HVAC components; (4) Heat pumps and geothermal systems; (5) Municipal and city energy systems; (6) Construction management; (7) Buildings in operation; (8) Building simulation; (9) Reference data; (10) Transdisciplinary connections and social aspects; (11) Indoor environments and health; (12) Moisture safety and water damage; (13) Codes, regulations, standards and policies; and (14) Other aspects of buildings in cold climates.

Modern organisations are flooded with data yet strangely blind to what actually happens inside their own value streams.Flow Sentience introduces a new paradigm for organisational intelligence: the ability to continuously listen to operational reality and adapt in real time.Drawing on systems thinking, evolutionary psychology and the emerging possibilities of AI-assisted organisational sensing, the book explores why even highly competent organisations repeatedly become trapped in silos, project logic and delayed feedback.Through the concept of Sentient Value Streams, the authors describe how organisations can regain situational awareness across complex operational landscapes. The book also introduces SentientOps, an emerging operational model that combines human judgement, real-time sensing and AI-assisted analysis to detect friction, learning signals and wellbeing risks as they arise.Rather than replacing human decision-making, sentient systems strengthen it.The result is a practical framework for leadership in an age where complexity grows faster than traditional management structures can handle.

Modern organisations are flooded with data yet strangely blind to what actually happens inside their own value streams. Flow Sentience introduces a new paradigm for organisational intelligence: the ability to continuously listen to operational reality and adapt in real time. Drawing on systems thinking, evolutionary psychology and the emerging possibilities of AI-assisted organisational sensing, the book explores why even highly competent organisations repeatedly become trapped in silos, project logic and delayed feedback. Through the concept of Sentient Value Streams, the authors describe how organisations can regain situational awareness across complex operational landscapes. The book also introduces SentientOps, an emerging operational model that combines human judgement, real-time sensing and AI-assisted analysis to detect friction, learning signals and wellbeing risks as they arise. Rather than replacing human decision-making, sentient systems strengthen it. The result is a practical framework for leadership in an age where complexity grows faster than traditional management structures can handle.

The Sentience Threshold explores one of the defining challenges of our time: how civilisation can learn to perceive the consequences of its own actions before those consequences become irreversible. Building on the FlowSentience Initiative´s work on systemic listening and organisational sentience, Jan Windahl and Dennis Johansson examine the widening gap between humanity´s growing technological power and its limited capacity for collective perception. Through examples from finance, infrastructure, climate, public health, AI governance and planetary systems, the book argues that modern crises often emerge not from a lack of information, but from a failure to integrate signals across institutional and cognitive boundaries. At the centre of the book is the Sentience Threshold: the point at which societies develop enough integrated perception to move from reactive crisis management toward anticipatory governance. The book also introduces the Sentience Stability Equation, a conceptual model for understanding the relationship between systemic perception, destructive capability and civilisational stability. Written as a serious but accessible work of applied systems thinking, The Sentience Threshold offers a framework for leaders, researchers, policymakers and technologists seeking to understand how AI, observability, governance and human judgement may together shape the next phase of civilisation.