How does Haga Invest get started quickly with digital management?

Some buildings tell more of a city's history than others. Järnvägen 1 in Visby, known locally as Blå Station, was built in 1878. The building was an important hub in Gotland's railway network, with lines running via Roma to Slite, Klintehamn and Burgsvik. The last train services on Gotland were shut down on 30 September 1960. Today the building houses offices and is owned and managed by Haga Invest.

Here, Joel Hedström, service technician at Haga Invest, explains how they are building their digital property management in Vyer. They start with work order management, use standardized templates to make it easier and more effective to take on more properties.

How do you get started with digital property management?

Joel has managed Järnvägen 1 since it was acquired in the summer of 2026. Asked whether it is easy to get started with digital property management in Vyer, he says:

It is routine by now. I search for the property name, add the building and then I am up and running.
— Joel Hedström, service technician, Haga Invest

Properties and buildings already exist in Vyer, taken from open map data, so no 3D model is needed to start. When the need arises, a building can be upgraded to a full 3D model without losing anything that has already been registered. Read more about what a digital twin is in property management.

Work orders first, the rest when it is needed

Joel has chosen not to digitize everything at once. He started where the business notices the biggest difference day to day.

We started with work orders, because that is where we saw a difference straight away. Now we are starting to schedule rounds such as systematic fire safety work and ventilation inspections.

In parallel, Joel is gradually documenting the properties' assets. He inventories them when he is on site for a work order anyway, so the work becomes a natural part of the day instead of a separate project.

How one property becomes the template for the next

What works on one property only needs to be set up once. Joel has decided which fields and which information matter most to Haga Invest and turned that into templates. When a new property is added, the templates come along, and it is up and running in a couple of clicks.

For every work order I need certain information. Once the template was ready, I took it with me to every new property. I just add the building and bring the templates along, and then I am up and running.

Every new property therefore follows the same way of working from day one. The more properties that are added, the greater the value of the shared structure. Information and routines become consistent and easier to find, whichever building it concerns.

When the knowledge is gathered in one place

For Joel, it is about managing the properties more proactively, staying a step ahead instead of only fixing what has already broken. An important part of that is that the knowledge about the properties and the ongoing work is documented and available, even when he is not on site himself.

If I happen to be sick or off, nobody needs to call me to find out what has been done or where things are. It is in Vyer, and whoever steps in can pick it up.

Who drives the work forward?

It is Joel who has driven the digitization at Haga Invest, with support from Oscar Frank at Vyer.

It has been valuable support. We have check-ins where we go through the work that has been done and how we can structure the next step. That has meant we could take one thing at a time.

In this way, Haga Invest is building a digital property management that carries the knowledge of the station building's almost 150-year history on to those who will take care of it for the next hundred years.