The design studio has just returned from a four-day study trip to Zurich, Lausanne and Basel. The trip offered good inspiration from among others residential buildings, learning environments and health buildings. We are now back home full of energy and ready to tackle our many exciting projects.
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.
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.
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 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.
