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Groundbreaking for OUH

28 April 2016

Today, Thursday 28/4, the first sod was turned for the new super hospital on Funen, OUH.

Today, Thursday 28/4, the first sod was turned for the new super hospital on Funen, OUHtaken. Also present at the event were Minister of Health, Sophie Løhde and the President of the Region of Southern Denmark, Stephanie Lose, as well as Project Director Peter Fosgrau. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by four patients from H.C. Andersens Children's Hospital and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and marks the beginning of Region Syddanmark's largest construction project, which is expected to be completed in 2022. The project is designed at the project office in Odense by Konsortiet Medic OUH, which in addition to KHR Arkitekter consists of White Arkitekter, Dall & Lindhardtsen, WSP Sweden, EKJ Rådgivende Ingeniører and Oluf Jørgensen Rådgivende Ingeniører.

New free ESG tool for the construction industry

ESG reporting is hard to avoid in the property industry. If you are not subject to reporting requirements (yet), there is a high probability that your business partners or investors will demand data for their ESG reporting. That's why several players in the Danish property industry, with support from Realdania, have joined forces to develop the free REALS ESG tool.

Interview with the urban planning expert

At architecture school, it wasn't the shape of the building that interested Elisabeth Jeppesen. It was all the stuff around the architecture. Experience from the early project stages is Elisabeth's strongest card in her job as head of KHR Byplan, which offers urban planning consultancy, project development and management of processes with authorities. In this interview, she shares her insights and motivation for project development at eye level in a world full of demands and opportunities.

Annie Kundrus

Architectural Intern

Lotte Rauterberg

Architectural Intern

Shortcut to ESG reporting

Are you getting started with ESG reporting or looking for smarter ways to handle the task? Take a look here! The Council for Sustainable Building has developed an Excel sheet that makes it easy to reuse the data you already have from DGNB certification and/or taxonomy verification.

Rønne Water Culture Centre - user process

Rønne Svømmehal's board of directors has initiated a process to secure the town an aquatic culture centre when the old swimming pool in the town closes. KHR Architecture's user involvement experts have facilitated a process that has given the board a strong basis for realising the dream of an aquatic cultural centre. Stakeholders from the local community as well as representatives from tourist organisations and potential foundations have been involved to create a solid foundation for function, flow and financing.

Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes

Architectural Intern

Philipp Müller

Architectural Intern