Building Green puts the spotlight on renovation and transformation when it hosts a conference on sustainable transformation in Copenhagen on 25-26 October. Postdoc Cameline Bolbroe will share experiences from KHR's work transforming the listed Gråbrødre School into a modern residential building. The focus has included increasing the building's use value and longevity by involving users through a specially developed modular building system.
In a new book, Cameline Bolbroe from KHR Architecture, together with Isabel Fróes from CBS, contributes with a book chapter on the potential of social sciences to develop social sustainability in construction.
Atelier KHR has hired Cameline Bolbroe as a professional postdoc for the project "Relational Architecture".
As Denmark ramps up its green ambitions, climate requirements for construction have been tightened. From 1 July 2025, all new buildings will have to meet new CO2e limits, which are now lowered to an average of 7.1 kg CO2e/m²/year. These requirements will affect all aspects of the construction process and apply to more building types than before.
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.
Modules made from residual material from the sugarcane industry in Peru could accelerate the use of regenerative building materials and modular construction modules to promote both social and environmental sustainability. These are some of the ideas behind an interdisciplinary innovation project that received a lot of attention at the UIA Architecture Congress in Copenhagen.
Of course, assisted living centres should first and foremost be a home for people who can no longer live safely in their own homes. However, when we design care homes, there are many other user groups that need to be catered for. It requires great professional insight into both the field and the architectural process to create care centres that are at the same time a good home, a good workplace and a place where, for example, relatives feel welcome.