International. Danfoss and Bitten & Mads Clausen's Foundation are now building one of the world's most sustainable residential buildings with existing traditional building materials and energy-efficient technologies.
May 13 is the wedding anniversary of Bitten and Mads Clausen. They married in 1939, and the Bitten & Mads Clausen Foundation celebrates the day by announcing that the new building being built on the Als Strait in Sønderborg will be called Danfoss House.
In 2019, PFA Pension and Bitten & Mads Clausen's Foundation inaugurated the four-star Alsik hotel, where energy consumption has been reduced to less than a quarter of the normal consumption of this type of building, using energy-efficient solutions installed by the brand. A stone's throw from there, the four-story Danfoss House is now under construction. The ambition is for Danfoss House to achieve DGNB platinum certification, the highest sustainability certification according to the globally recognised DGNB standard.
In this sense, the construction is evaluated according to five criteria: environmental quality, economic quality, social quality, technical quality and process quality. Only 12 residential buildings in the world have obtained DGNB platinum certification.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), buildings account for more than a third of the world's total energy consumption and 40% of all CO2 emissions. Danfoss House's ambition is to be as CO2 neutral as possible and to be an application development centre (ADC), where Danfoss can continuously develop and test new technological solutions together with residents.
Danfoss House will have a central and decentralized heating system to determine the optimal balance. The building also has underfloor heating, district heating cooling and seawater cooling, respectively. In addition, the property will be a smart home, where all the elements will communicate with each other. There is also a plan to install Danfoss Leanheat, a solution that uses artificial intelligence to monitor and control the temperature in buildings. In addition, the Danfoss house is technologically prepared for the future with large technical axes, which allow to update all the facilities and solutions.
With the building, Danfoss and Bitten & Mads Clausen's Foundation will demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the highest sustainability certification with technology that already exists. Therefore, it is being built in brick and concrete, the most used materials in our part of the world, but with sustainable options, for example, buying materials locally and taking into account recycling.
