About the Knowledge Center

The Danish Knowledge Centre for Energy Savings in Buildings

The Danish government has a clear goal: By 2025, the country’s energy consumption should be reduced by 25 percent while the share of renewable energy sources should be increased from 19 to 30 percent. What have the Danes done to meet these targets? One of the actions has been to establish a national Knowledge Centre for Energy Savings in Buildings serving the building professionals.

Know-how, qualifications and motivation
The Knowledge Centre opened in 2009 and gathers expertise and best practices in the field of energy savings. The professionals of the building industry have free access to information, facts and advice about how to choose the right material, technical solutions and constructions methods for achieving energy savings.

The Knowledge Centre for Energy Savings in Buildings strives to provide the building professionals with the necessary know-how, qualifications and motivation to implement energy saving initiatives in housing and commercial development and in the building stock.

The existing building stock offers an enormous potential for achieving energy savings: More than 40 percent of the entire Danish energy spending is used in buildings.  

Telephone hotline
The main tasks of the Knowledge Centre are divided into three keys areas: knowledge, solutions and communication. The building professionals should become increasingly better at offering owners and developers safe, easy and cost-efficient energy saving solutions.

A telephone hotline for the building professionals has been successfully set up. They call the Knowledge Centre to get immediate, practical, hands-on answers to questions about how to implement energy saving solutions like insulation or energy efficient windows.

State-of-the-art tools and solutions
The Knowledge Centre for Energy Savings in Buildings will keep collecting, summarising and processing all available knowledge in its field to turn the Centre into the place where the building professionals look for state-of–the art tools and solutions for saving energy in buildings.  

Facts and Figures
The government has allocated 32 million Danish kroner (approximately 4.3 million euro) for the establishment and operation of the Knowledge Centre from 2008 until 2011. The Centre refers to Centre for Energi Savings under Danish Energy Agency.

A consortium is running the Knowledge Centre for Energy Savings in Buildings, consisting of: Danish Technological Institute, Danish Building Research Institute/Aalborg University, Viegand & Maagøe and KommunikationsKompagniet.