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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Circular building materials

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Decommissioned wind turbine blades spun into recyclable buildings

29 November 2023

A new technology transforms retired wind turbine blades into recyclable materials. The innaguration of a dedicated recycling facility in Esbjerg is scheduled fo no later than 2026, aimed at managing fiberglass waste from the wind industry.

Perspective

Energy efficiency

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Dreams of energy efficiency are there to be fulfilled

28 November 2023

This blog post is part of a perspective series focusing on the need and potential of optimising energy efficiency in buildings in Poland.

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Energy efficiency in buildings

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Touring the energy-efficient buildings of the World Capital of Architecture

7 November 2023

In commemoration of Copenhagen's title as the World Capital of Architecture 2023, State of Green and Creative Denmark organised a delegation trip, welcoming stakeholders from the US and Canada to discover the energy-efficient buildings and sustainable architectural landscape of the Danish capital.

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Urban planning and development

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Virtual event: Adapting a holistic view to urban green transition

13 October 2023

On 11 October, State of Green hosted a virtual morning session, launching the white paper on “Urban green transition”. The session included both Danish and international perspectives on urban planning and development.

solutions

Power-to-x

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The world’s first net-zero fueled container vessel

25 September 2023

With shipping accounting for around 3 percent of energy-related CO₂ emissions, the potential and impact of decarbonising international shipping is great. The Danish shipping industry has set ambitious targets for the green transition, aiming for all Danish-operated ships to be CO₂-neutral by 2050, a

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Biodiversity

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Pulsparken: Setting New Standards for Climate Adaptation and Well-being

22 September 2023

According to the Danish Health Profile, Denmark faces a range of challenges that demand innovative solutions. These challenges include a high stress level among adults, with 29% reporting elevated stress levels. Additionally, only 4 out of 10 Danes meet the WHO’s recommendations for physical a

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Meet Danish green buildings professionals

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Circular building materials

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IPU P/S

We are an elite team of international specialists, focused on developing advanced product and process technology for leading technology based companies.

Company

District cooling

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Green Therma

Established in February 2023, Green Therma is dedicated to revolutionizing the utilization of the Earth’s heat through proprietary technology and our unique Heat4Ever solution.

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Buildings

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Wireless Logic Nordic

Wireless Logic Nordic is today the marked leading M2M/IoT solution provider in Denmark, and has also delivered and supports over 500.000 connections to a range of applications and assets throughout Eu

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Buildings

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Milva

Milva is a digital mapping tool that finds environmentally hazardous as well as recyclable materials in existing buildings. Everything is presented in an easy-to-use online report.

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Energy efficiency

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EDF Denmark

Enabling Denmark’s journey to decarbonisation We use our global network and local experience to find the best innovative low-carbon solutions for each of our customers.

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Air pollution

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EIVEE

EIVEE calculates your company's entire CO2 emissions with market-leading precision across scope 1, 2 and 3. We deliver industry-leading data quality so you continuously track and validate your ent

Public Sector

Bio-based circular solutions

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Nordic Sustainable Construction

The programme Nordic Sustainable Construction is part of Nordic Vision 2030 initiated by the Nordic Ministers for Construction and Housing and works to support the Nordic countries in establishing the

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Buildings

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Livingbetter AS

Healthy and sustainable combined ventilation and heat recovery solution

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Explore related focus areas

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.