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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Energy efficiency in buildings

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New Danish-Vietnamese report shows that it is economically advantageous for Vietnam's CO2 emissions to peak in 2030

A new Danish-Vietnamese study shows that it is not only technically possible for Vietnam to meet its climate-neutrality goal by 2050, but also the most profitable of the scenarios analysed. Vietnam's CO2 emissions, however, must peak in 2030, if the transition is not to become unnecessarily expensive, underscoring a need to massively accelerate the green transformation of the energy sector now.

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Bio-based circular solutions

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New Publication Reveals That Maritime Building Materials Can Reduce CO2 and Alleviate the Marine Environment

In the handbook Marine Biobased Building Materials, developed on behalf of Nordic Innovation, the global engineering and design firm Arup assesses the development of regenerative maritime building materials and highlights the challenges that may exist for commercial adoption.

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Urban planning and development

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Aalborg prepares to host international conference on sustainable cities

In October, over 1,000 politicians and civil servants from across Europe will gather in Aalborg to discuss how European municipalities can best support the green and sustainable transition.

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Buildings

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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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Meet Danish green buildings professionals

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Air pollution

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Danish Standards

Danish Standards is Denmark's official standardization organization, providing Danish market players the opportunity to help secure Danish interests and competitiveness in the development of European

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Biodiversity

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ConTech Lab - a part of Molio

ConTech Lab is the construction industry's shared development platform where companies from the industry can develop and experiment with new ways of using data, digitalization and technology to create

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Green buildings

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COBOD International A/S

COBOD International specializes in innovative construction technologies by pioneering in the development and sale of 3D construction printers. Our mission is to revolutionize the building industry thr

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Buildings

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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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Buildings

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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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Buildings

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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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Biodiversity

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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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Urban 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.

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.