Research and development areas

• Sustainable buildings, Danish Green Building certification.
• UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
• Circular economy in buildings (reuse, recycling and design for disassembly).
• Sustainable building materials with a focus on wood construction.
• Life cycle assessments in buildings and life cost calculations.
• Integrated energy design of buildings, low-energy buildings, passive, active and renewable energy technologies.
• Energy renovation and efficiency, sustainable renovation and circularity.
• Building installations, including ventilation, water, heating, and sanitation.
• Indoor climate, building simulations and physics.

Competences

• Sustainable buildings, circular economy, life cycle assessment, life cost calculations and UN 17 sustainable development goals.
• Integrated building design, energy efficiency and energy calculations (Be18).
• Energy renovation of buildings.
• Indoor climate analysis and simulations (BSim).
• Ventilation in buildings and building installations.
• Building physics, moisture and heat transport and thermal mass of buildings. 
• Design of load-bearing structures and dimensioning concrete elements.

Work areas

• International project assignments in UAE and COWI A/S (India, China & USA)
• Teaching international students at UCN, ATCM in Denmark and Vietnam.
• Participating in an Erasmus+ project (2022-25) with Finland, Belgium and Spain, focusing on the UN 17 sustainable development goals in construction.
• Participating in an Interreg project, Rural Areas Circular Economy Reinforcer, to promote the transition to a circular and resource-efficient economy (waiting for project application approval).