More sustainable buildings
With our products and the way they are used, we wish to contribute to more sustainable building. We call it Sustainable Living.
VELUX defines Sustainable Living as follows:
Maximum energy efficiency and minimum CO2 emission
- take a holistic view of a building and produce a design that incorporates energy efficiency
- strategic placing of windows to make the most of heat from the sun’s rays, natural ventilation and daylight
- active use of intelligent building components that interact with their surroundings (externally and internally) and thus optimise the building’s overall energy-efficiency
Visionary architecture combined with improved health, more human well-being and indoor comfort
- visionary architecture that takes into account both materials and surroundings in order to create healthy and comfortable conditions
- maximum daylight and ventilation to ensure optimal indoor climate that will meet future standards
- fresh air and natural ventilation to ensure a healthy indoor climate and minimise the risk of allergies
Sustainable energy sources, especially solar thermal energy
- sustainable energy should be an integral part of a building to ensure a future with less dependence on fossil fuels
- solar thermal energy can heat and cool a building
- solar thermal energy can heat domestic hot water
VELUX has something to offer in all three – partly because of our products, and partly because of our knowledge and experience in energy, daylight and architecture.
On the way to the climate-neutral building
VELUX has a vision for the sustainable buildings of the future – we call the concept Model Home 2020. Its objective is to create climate-neutral buildings with an optimal indoor climate, fresh air and daylight.
Over the next two years, VELUX, in collaboration with a number of building materials producers, will construct six new houses for experimentation with technological solutions – three in 2009 in Denmark and Austria, and three in 2010 in France, Germany and the UK. The houses will be monitored and measured in terms of energy consumption and indoor climate and the knowledge will be put to use in our future product development.