Sustainable cities, buildings and components
Sustainable cities, buildings and components
Design, construction and management of buildings, cities and infrastructure play a key role in ensuring a greener and more sustainable society. Sustainable cities should promote economic growth and meet the basic needs of their inhabitants while creating sustainable, affordable living conditions for all and making sure cities are inclusive, green and safe. The focus also includes minimizing the required supply of materials, energy, water, and food, and drastically reducing environmental impact from waste, the output of heat, air and water pollution.
Research areas
- Sustainable materials, components, and processes in the construction industry and an improved indoor environment.
- Supply infrastructure in cities including sewers, rainwater etc.
- Social and economic sustainability, life cycle cost (LCC), life cycle analysis (LCA) for materials and carbon footprint.
- Digitalisation and use of data to optimise the processes of the building sector in the design, construction, and operational phases.
- Understanding and use of technology, behaviour, and everyday practice.
- Buildings and urban planning that accommodate nature and green recreational areas in cities.
Did you know...
...that almost 40 per cent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Denmark originates from buildings and households
Collaboration with companies on impact
The sustainable focus area of Sustainable cities, buildings and components is presented in the film. The focus area works to ensure greener and more sustainable cities. There is huge potential for reducing the climate footprint in construction, and the film presents the LCAbyg tool and our collaboration with the Council for Sustainable Construction.
Research group
◗Urban Water
◗Sustainable Structures
◗Transformation of Housing and Places
◗Sustainable Cities and Everyday Practice
◗Building Informatics
◗Indoor Environmental Quality and Building Systems
◗Risk, Resilience, Safety and Sustainability of systems
◗Building Physics and Construction Technology
◗Urban Pollution
◗Soil Technology
◗ Materials Science and Engineering
◗ Solid and Computational Mechanics
◗Photovoltaic Systems
◗Batteries
◗CROM- Center for Research on Microgrids
