Resource Rows/

Lendager

Denmark

Location(City/Country):

Copenhagen / Denmark

Tipology:

Residential

Year (Design/Construction):

- / 2020

Area (Net/Gross):

9148 m2 / -

Operational Carbon emissions (B6) kgCO2e/m2/y:

Embodied Carbon emissions (A1-A3) kgCO2e/m2:

The project embraces circular construction by reusing bricks from demolished buildings, such as the historic Carlsberg breweries, and recycled wood from the Copenhagen Metro. This approach significantly reduces waste and gives new life to materials that would otherwise be discarded.
The building integrates solar panels and water-air heat pumps, promoting energy efficiency. Additionally, the project achieves impressive CO2 savings, with a 29% reduction per square metre from material reuse and up to 86% savings from the windows alone.
The design ensures low maintenance and operational costs, while long-term sustainability strategies have been developed for the building and its partners. This contributes to the project’s overall resilience and longevity in an eco-conscious market.

The world’s first residential construction project in which housing was built from construction waste.

The “Resource Rows” demonstrate what future circular construction might look like. Resource efficiency and optimised use of resources in the broadest sense are the main principles of the project, which is the first building in Denmark constructed from bricks salvaged from former buildings.

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Since the 1960s, it has not been possible to reuse bricks individually, as the mortar between the bricks is stronger than the bricks themselves. The brick walls are therefore cut into square modules, processed, and stacked to form the exterior walls of the “Resource Rows”. This approach enables the reuse of old bricks, which would otherwise have been crushed, giving them new life in new buildings.

Lendager, among other things, cut brick modules from the historic Carlsberg breweries in Copenhagen. As a result, the history and character of the old buildings are now carried on in the “Resource Rows”. Additionally, recycled wood from the construction of the Copenhagen Metro is being reused. Large quantities of wood waste are processed in a way that allows the wood to be reused as beautiful and sustainable materials in both the facade and interior of the project.

POSITIVE INTERACTIONS

Popular apartments, fully occupied and quickly rented out in a difficult market
Built within the material and construction budget, the target value was undercut by 1%
Low maintenance and operating costs
Long-term sustainability strategies were developed for multiple project partners

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT