Lars Olsson

Lars Olsson is a researcher. For 20 years he has worked with moisture calculations, moisture damage investigations and tests - both at field and in laboratory - of constructions, mainly with respect to indoor environment, moisture, rain and air tightness. Since 2008 he has conducted research, on moisture in wood constructions and research on driving rain tightness and phenomenology of leakages in defects of facades, and he did his licentiate thesis 2014 and doctoral thesis 2018, at Chalmers University of Technology. For the moment, Lars is a project manager for certification rules of external walls, roofs och floors. The last conducted two research projects are about moisture safety of CLT buildings during construction without weather protection. Lars is the project manager for a ongoing research project on driving rain tightness of concrete sandwich walls.