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12/10/2011

Six unique CO2-neutral houses in five EU countries

When the sixth full-scale experimental building opens in France next week, the VELUX Group will have completed its Model Home 2020 project, based on a vision for CO2-neutral buildings with a high level of liveability.
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10/08/2011

Daylight and natural ventilation key to newly launched VELUX CarbonLight Homes

The design strategy of the completed VELUX CarbonLight Homes was released today as the homes were unveiled at an opening ceremony in Rothwell, Kettering, attended by Heather Wheeler MP, The Mayor of Kettering, local Councillors and the project partners.
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Green Lighthouse
17/12/2010

Busy year in Green Lighthouse

A year has passed since Green Lighthouse opened its doors for the first time.
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LichtAktiv Haus Hamburg VELUX Model Home 2020
19/11/2010

Germany’s first CO2-neutral renovated settler house opened

LichtAktiv Haus is the fourth Model Home 2020 experiment out of six buildings in Europe to be constructed by the VELUX Group
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Carbon-neutral single-family house
02/11/2010

The VELUX Group opens Austria’s first carbon-neutral single-family house

A single-family house that has a healthy indoor climate, is flooded with daylight, generates more energy than it needs and neutralises its CO2 emissions.
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The Simonsen family in their renovated home
26/10/2010

Home of the future inspires daylight renovation

A welcoming atmosphere in a modern home that makes the most of daylight – that was the verdict of the Simonsen family of five after their house was given a daylight makeover.
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Maison Air et Lumière
14/10/2010

Designing roofs for well-being and energy efficiency

VELUX MODEL HOME 2020, France: Maison Air et Lumière is a new generation of active house designed with the residents’ quality of life.
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Home for Life first-year results
06/10/2010

First-year results of an experiment in the family home of the future now available

The Simonsen family in Århus has just moved out of the family home of the future after taking part for a year in the experiment Home for Life.
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Topping out ceremony for LichtAktiv Haus
04/10/2010

Topping out ceremony for LichtAktiv Haus

An old semi-detached house becomes active. On 17 September in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, VELUX employees, craftspeople, project participants, neighbours and friends celebrated at the topping out ceremony for the LichtAktiv Haus.
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28/09/2010

British VELUX Model Home 2020 project breaks new ground

VELUX Company Ltd marked the start of construction on its ModelHome 2020 project with a groundbreaking ceremony on the site where it will build two zero carbon homes in Rothwell, Kettering, on Wednesday 22nd September.
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VELUX Model Home 2020 semi-detached design
16/07/2010

Model Home 2020 Receives top industry accolade at British Homes Awards

The VELUX Model Home 2020 project emerged as the winner of the Innovation Award for Building Technology at the prestigious British Homes Awards (BHA) held on Thursday 1st July in Central London.
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17/05/2010

China’s Minister of Commerce, Chen Deming, visits Green Lighthouse

Minister given a guided tour of Denmark’s first CO2-neutral public building – a building of tomorrow constructed with the products of today.
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President Medvedev and the partners behind Green Lighthouse
06/05/2010

President Medvedev to build Green Lighthouse in Russia

President of the Russian Federation, Dimitry Medvedev, has announced the decision to build a Green Lighthouse in Russia.
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05/05/2010

Ruslands præsident Medvedev bygger Green Lighthouse i Rusland

ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS PRESS RELEASE TO BE RELEASED Dagen efter sit besøg i Green Lighthouse besluttede Ruslands præsident Medvedev, at der skal bygges et Green Lighthouse i Rusland
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Green Lighthouse
28/04/2010

Russian President visits Green Lighthouse

President Medvedev tours Denmark’s first public carbon-neutral building - a building for the future made of components of today.
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27/04/2010

Ground breaking of Austria´s first carbon-neutral one-family house

On 22 April 2010, the ground-breaking ceremony for Austria’s first carbon-neutral one-family house, Sunlighthouse, took place in Pressbaum near Vienna.
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18/03/2010

From theory to practice – the human factor

The Simonsen family from Århus, Denmark, are living in the middle of an experiment. For a year, they are testing Home for Life, to explore how homes of the future could be.
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Sunlighthouse
11/11/2009

VELUX Austria builds carbon-neutral single-family house

In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, VELUX Austria is to erect Austria’s first ever carbon-neutral single-family house under the name of Sunlighthouse.
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Green Lighthouse
20/10/2009

A lighthouse for the climate just opened at the University of Copenhagen

Green Lighthouse is Denmark’s first public CO2-neutral building Denmark’s first public CO2-neutral building just opened. The new building, Green Lighthouse, was inaugurated on the 20th October 2009 and serves as an example in several ways.
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 Andris Piebalgs EU Commissioner for Energy visited the Green Lighthouse in Copenhagen
09/09/2009

EU Commissioner visits Green Lighthouse

Wednesday, Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Energy, visited the ‘Green Lighthouse’ in Copenhagen. Mr. Piebalgs was given a guided tour of the building that will be handed over to Copenhagen University as a faculty building in October.
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Model Home 2020 Jury Germany
08/09/2009

Joining forces for living in the city of the future

VELUX Germany signs the IBA Convention and cooperation on the concept house Model Home 2020.
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New vision for buildings will create balance between energy consumption and well-being
29/05/2009

New vision for buildings will create balance between energy consumption and well-being

One of the building sector’s contributions to the sustainable buildings of the future is the concept of the Active House, where energy, indoor climate and the local environment combine to benefit the occupants.
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Green Lighthouse – the climate-friendly building of the future – is topped out
27/05/2009

Green Lighthouse – the climate-friendly building of the future – is topped out

Copenhagen University’s new building, the Faculty of Natural Sciences on Nørre Campus called Green Lighthouse, will act as a beacon to guide us towards green behaviour.
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20/04/2009

Visions for buildings of the future – Opening a ‘Home for Life’

Monday 20 April saw the official opening of the first of six CO2 neutral experimental houses to be built in five European countries as part of the VELUX Model Home 2020 concept.
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First sod turned on what will be the roof of Copenhagen University’s new green building
29/10/2008

First sod turned on what will be the roof of Copenhagen University’s new green building

The first sod of Copenhagen University’s first climate-friendly building, Green Lighthouse, was turned today at Tagensvej in Copenhagen.
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New vision for future living environments
14/07/2008

New vision for future living environments

How can we obtain healthy and climate-neutral buildings in the future? VELUX sets out six real-life experiments to pursue some answers to this question.
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03/03/2008

Copenhagen University to get sustainable building

Vice-Chancellor Lykke Friis today kicked off the project for a new sustainable building on the Tagensvej campus of Copenhagen University - Green Light House.
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