Invite the light

The first Living Places prototype outside of Denmark, the Smûk house, opens its doors in Dokkum, Friesland in the Netherlands. Her Majesty Queen Máxima visited the Smûk house as one of the first guests. The prototype is built by the Dutch house builder, Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma (BGDD), who entered a partner agreement on the Living Places concept with the VELUX Group in 2023.

The VELUX Group is proud to announce that the projects ‘Solar Sinter’ by Anders Eugen Lund (Denmark), and ‘The Light Filter’ by Wan Zilin, Poon Gin Yong & Zang Jiayou (China), have been selected as the global winners of the International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture 2024.

VELUX Group welcomes Barnabas Szabo as new Executive Vice President for Operations & Supply on September 1, 2024. He will take on the overall responsibility of developing and leading the operations and supply teams to ensure the company remains competitive, delivers value to partners and customers, continuously grows in relevancy and fulfils VELUX sustainability targets.

The VELUX Group and the Danish housebuilder, HusCompagniet, have signed a knowledge-based partner agreement on the Living Places concept to help move the Danish construction industry in a more sustainable direction. The agreement builds on the experiences gained from the VELUX Group’s Living Places project and is the first of its kind in Denmark.

For the second year in a row, VELUX Group has earned a gold medal from EcoVadis, the world’s largest provider of business sustainability rankings. EcoVadis evaluates companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.