Danfoss builds the world’s most livable lab

The new Danfoss House is the world's only multi-residential building of bricks and concrete to achieve the highest certification under the globally recognized DGNB-standard.

Danfoss House is built on a burning platform. As buildings account for more than a third of the world’s energy consumption and 40% of all CO2 emissions.

Danfoss has solutions that can change this. The new Danfoss House will be used for continuously developing and testing innovative technologies for better comfort and lower consumption.

“We use it to demonstrate our products in use and tell the story about how we can decarbonize multifamily houses and housing in general in the world. So, it would make a big impact if we could demonstrate that way to net zero,” says Torben Christensen, Chief Sustainability Officer, Danfoss.

The Danfoss House is also what a dozen of the company’s expat employees can call home. You can almost call it the world’s most livable lab.

“It's actually pretty cool as an employee to see the Danfoss solutions in action. And it provides a lot of peace of mind for me and my family having this place to stay in in the future,” Elodie Segaud, Director, Brand & design, Danfoss, explains.

Danfoss House has both centralized and decentralized heating systems installed - to test the systems against each other. The house is surrounded by ten 100-meter-deep geothermal boreholes for groundwater cooling and heating during winter. It has floor cooling and features diffuse ventilation with cooling. Danfoss House is upgradable due to its large technical shafts, and a completely smart home, simulated, monitored and planned so it never gets too hot or cold.

The combined home to employees and testing and development center for Danfoss’ solutions for residential buildings has been built by Danfoss’ owner foundation, the Bitten & Mads Clausen Foundation.

Behind the building is the construction company Daugaard Pedersen. CEO Jan Riis Nielsen says:

“Danfoss House is a unique project that differs from traditional residential buildings through its combination of sustainability, architecture and technical innovation. It has been a challenging but rewarding journey with many important choices along the way. At Daugaard Pedersen, we believe that Danfoss House now stands as an icon for modern housing construction, which in an exemplary way unites energy-efficient technologies, sustainable principles and a strong architectural identity.”