Event details
Dates
19 June 2024 - 20 June 2024
Where
Hamburg, Germany
Organisers
Building Green & State of Green
Building Green Hamburg brings together decision-makers, experts, and professionals from the built environment on June 19 and 20 at the historic Fischauktionshalle in Hamburg. Discover actionable strategies to reduce the construction industry’s climate footprint while gaining insights from international speakers on sustainable urban development amidst the growing urbanisation and the need for sustainable practices.
With this page the aim is to ignite your imagination with captivating perspectives, white papers, and impactful case stories showcasing Danish solutions dedicated to fostering a more sustainable built environment. We invite you to join us for our site visits at Building Green Hamburg 2024, to find out how these solutions can serve as foundational elements in shaping the future of urban spaces.
Find State of Green’s site visits below. The full program for Building Green Hamburg is available here.
Sub-national climate action
Listen to Sound of Green ‘Sub-national climate action’ as we present insightful interviews with Mark Watts (C40 network), Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, Pelle Bournonville (Realdania), and Louise Koch (Grundfos).
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Visit ADEPT in Hamburg
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White paper: Urban green transition
A 40-page showcase of why holistic and strategic city planning and development within mobility and infrastructure, climate adaptation, as well as environmentally conscious architecture and construction, must take centre stage in the transformed cities of tomorrow.
Explore sustainable city solutions nationally and globally
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Energy efficiency in buildings
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Living Places: Building low-carbon and more sustainable buildings
23 June 2023Living Places is a new way of thinking about how to build in the future. The project by VELUX Group, EFFEKT and Artelia explores how the building industry can support the health of the people and the planet through building design that is scalable, affordable and commercially viable. It arose by loo
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Urban planning and development
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Transforming a former airport into a thriving city
4 September 2023The development of the Downsview Framework Plan reimagines a former Toronto airport into a thriving new district, building on the rich legacy and natural features of the airfield site and its surroundings.
The plan turns an expansive, 520-acre airfield into a green-minded, human-scale, and people-f
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Urban planning and development
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Transforming social housing with nature
10 August 2023A new nature park in Aarhus, Gellerupparken, has provided the green backbone for transforming a deprived area of 1960s public housing estates into socially and environmentally sustainable neighbourhoods.
As Denmark’s largest social housing area, Gellerup is formed of large-scale building blocks and
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Circular building design
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Carbon capture, storage and utilisation
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CORT: Improving the efficiency of carbon capture technologies
30 April 2024Carbon capture technologies are set to play a key role in Denmark’s climate action strategy. However, the high energy consumption of these technologies drives up operational costs, creating a barrier to their adoption. As a result, there is a need for significant efficiency improvements. Among other
