Green buildings

With urbanisation, demographic changes, and climate change, our cities and their buildings are facing immense challenges. Creative and innovative thinking can lead us towards a more sustainable approach to designing, creating, and using the buildings that form the basis for our everyday lives, to the benefit of both our planet and the people that populate our urban centres. Ensuring green buildings that are sustainable and energy-efficient will be key to our efforts to tackle climate change.

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A framework for healthy, sustainable, and resilient buildings

The EU is not on track to reach the 2050 climate targets for energy and renovations. At the same time, the lack of a commonly accepted comprehensive definition of what constitutes healthy buildings hinders progress towards achieving healthy buildings. Increasing building health has multiple positive

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Arup enters as founding partner in new network "Building With Blue Biomass"

A new international and interdisciplinary network “Building with Blue Biomass” will explore the potentials of marine and aquaculture-based biomass. The aim is to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and accelerate the building industry’s transition towards circular and renewable bio-based materials.

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Circular construction

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Denmark aims to increase the recycling of construction materials

The Danish government has recently approved a new legislation mandating recycling plans for buildings exceeding 250 square meters scheduled for demolition.

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EU adopts directive to decarbonise the buildings sector

On March 12, the European Parliament adopted a revised version of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in EU's building sector.

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The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance presents handbook to help cities utilise bio-based building materials

Launched at this years Buildings & Climate Global Forum in Paris, the City Handbook for Carbon Neutral Buildings by Arup seeks to support cities in evaluating how to reduce whole life carbon in construction, using bio-based building materials.

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CO2mpare: Open access carbon database for buildings

Data plays a crucial role in driving the decarbonisation and resilience of the buildings and construction sector. It informs decision-making and enables the industry and policymakers to draw comparisons and set sustainability benchmarks for specific building types. However, data availability, qualit

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Meet Danish green buildings professionals

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Friis & Moltke Architects

Friis & Moltke Architects is Denmark's leading architectural firm within the energy sector. In the FM Energy department, we handle standalone projects as well as large-scale energy clusters. We of

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Half Double Institute

Are you looking to reach higher impact at a faster pace with your projects? Then contact us to learn more about how you can leverage the Danish-developed project management methodology Half Double.

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a:gain ApS

We develop, produce and deliver upcycled circular building elements and interior products at scale for B2B clients. We substitute existing high-emmiting products, reduce raw material consumption, and

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WE BUILD DENMARK

WE BUILD DENMARK is the national cluster organisation for the building and construction sector in Denmark.

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URBAN POWER

URBAN POWER ApS is an architect and urbanist office who advises municipalities, regions, companies and private developers in making decisions within the fields of urban planning, buildings and urban s

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KOMPAS VC

KOMPAS is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to funding breakthrough innovations that drive digital transformation and decarbonization in the building and manufacturing industries.

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Green financing

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Finans Danmark

The financial sector is involved in all parts of the economy and is an important engine for the development of a green and sustainable economy.

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Provice

At Provice we help accelerate sustainability efforts at companies.

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Air pollution

With urbanisation set to increase, air pollution will affect even more people in the future if no action is taken. Through strict environmental legislation and air quality monitoring, Denmark has reduced atmospheric pollution in most areas to less than one-fifth of the levels during the late 70s.

Climate change adaptation

Expanding mitigation to include adaptation in dealing with climate change, enables a holistic view that can combat previous negative social, environmental, and economic impacts and result in both climate resilient and more liveable places to live. Over the next 15-20 years, Denmark will spend more than EUR 5 billion on adapting its cities to climate changes.

District energy

Put simply, district energy is about moving energy in water, with a valuable temperature, from a place of production to the place of consumption. Denmark’s district heating system is highly energy efficient and has been one of the key drivers for reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions from the energy sector.

Green buildings

With urbanisation, demographic changes, and climate change, our cities and their buildings are facing immense challenges. Creative and innovative thinking can lead us towards a more sustainable approach to designing, creating, and using the buildings that form the basis for our everyday lives, to the benefit of both our planet and the people that populate our urban centres. Ensuring that new buildings are sustainable and energy-efficient will be key to our efforts to tackle climate change.

Smart cities

As the pace of urbanisation quickens, cities face immense challenges related to waste management, mobility, climate adaptation and energy. However, as their political, economic, and technological power grows, cities can harness this trend to act as leaders in the green transition and drivers of the green economy. Cities need smart solutions to ensure that they are optimised for sustainable economic activity, energy consumption, and an improved environmental impact.

Urban mobility

Cities must be built for people to be sustainable, healthy, and liveable. Targeted policy-making with urban mobility in mind is a strong reinforcement of these objectives. The key is to acknowledge the importance of city space and city life as an attractive, informal, and democratic meeting place for the city residents.

Urban waste management

Urban waste management entails the entire system of collecting, sorting, treating, utilising and ultimately disposing of waste. When properly facilitated it can provide a source of energy and resources, while significantly reducing pollution.

Urban water management

Cities around the world increasingly face pressure from both growing populations and climate change, challenging urban water supply in terms of available resources and in terms of treatment of increased wastewater volumes. An integrated approach to urban water management can ensure cost efficiency and synergies. E.g., wastewater treatment can provide the city with energy and nature-based solutions can delay or store rainwater for later use.