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The Paris agreement was signed in 2015 and this year marks the halfway point to 2030, when many of the world’s governments have set targets to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. As with previous COP attendance...

The groundbreaking housing project, Living Places Copenhagen, wins two international architecture awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) thereby confirming the importance of the project on the international architecture scene....

The VELUX Group has entered a partner agreement with the Dutch house builder Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma on building more sustainable housing in the Northern part of the Netherlands. With this partner agreement, Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma is the first...

The VELUX Group appoints Aliëtte van der Wal-van Dijk as new Executive Vice President for VELUX Global Marketing as of 1 December. As EVP for global marketing, Aliëtte will join the Executive Group Management in VELUX....

VELUX A/S has progressed from a bronze to gold medal in the latest assessment by the rating body EcoVadis, which assesses companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) management and progress....

Thursday night,  the VELUX Group was awarded EY’s Sustainability Award in the Innovation category at an event hosted by EY and the Danish Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group received the prestigious award for Living Places – a housi...

As part of the VELUX Group’s commitment to accelerate sustainable development, expressed in the Group`s Sustainability strategy 2030, the group has taken the role of Impact Partner to the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 in Copenhagen....

The winning flexible seating arrangement made from discarded pallets was one of 10 finalist solutions competing to become part of future festivals. The students involved in the second annual sustainability challenge used recyclable materials to devel...

Could future festival equipment be made from coffee bags, mushrooms or ropes? Through the Sustainability Challenge, The VELUX Group, IDA and Roskilde Festival called on students to design festival furniture using only recyclable materials. ...

All of the entries in the product design category were assessed according to their design quality and degree of innovation by a Red Dot jury, consisting of 50 international experts. The award was announced and celebrated at a Red Dot award ceremony i...

In collaboration with Roskilde Festival and IDA, the VELUX Group invited students to create proposals for how to make Roskilde Festival's lounge areas greener and more circular – in other words, rethinking how to chill at Denmark's Roskilde Festival....

As part of the VELUX Group’s target to capture the historical emissions from operations, the group will finance two additional forest conservation and restoration projects in tropical landscapes. Together with the first project in Uganda, the new pro...

A new roof window shutter production facility will be built in Marnay, Haute-Saône to meet the growing demand from customers in Europe for energy savings and thermal comfort in both winter and summer. ...

A fault detected in VELUX new generation mains-powered glass rooflight CVU could in rare instances cause electric shock.The risk is considered low and no one has been injured. It is safe to use the affected flat roof windows with a remote control, bu...

Anders Dam Vestergaard will take on a new role as the Executive Vice President for Region North America, CEE, APAC & Altaterra and step into the Executive Group Management team of the VELUX Group....

Jacob Madsen has been appointed Executive Vice President for Region North in the VELUX Group and will step into the Executive Group Management team.

André Dot will take on a new role as the Executive Vice President for Region Southwest Europe in the Velux Group. He will also step into the Executive Group Management team of the VELUX Group.

The companies will now work together to lower the carbon footprint of the steels used in VELUX roof windows, aiming to reduce embedded CO2 by up to 70 percent (depending on the type of steel product used) compared with conventionally produced steel. ...

The VELUX Group and partners open the doors to Living Places Copenhagen – seven prototypes that show how we can develop sustainable buildings with a three times lower CO2 footprint and a first-class indoor climate. Living Places concept holds the low...

Emissions from operations (scope 1 and 2) decreased to 27,371 tCO2e in 2022 from 37,105 tCO2e in 2021. This decline was driven by an increase in the purchase of renewable electricity (in 2022 representing 98% of electricity consumption), energy effic...

Called Nature Collection, the blinds are primarily made from recycled materials, which significantly reduces their embodied carbon footprint compared to standard VELUX blinds.

Today marks the beginning of the creation of one central location for future VELUX product innovation.

The winning projects of the 2022 International VELUX Award were created by students from architecture schools in Poland and Iran.

First ever solar plant symbiosis in Spain, integrating agriculture, biodiversity, and community with renewable energy generation. The electricity generated will address 100% of the VELUX Group’s European operations and up to 90% of global consumption...

The VELUX Group has entered into a partnership agreement with Novelis, the world’s largest aluminium recycler, for Novelis to provide high-recycled-content, flat-rolled aluminium for use in VELUX roof windows. ...

VELUX is at COP27 with the purpose to keep the momentum and focus on the built environment. VELUX will contribute to key discussions on how the construction sector can adapt to and mitigate climate change, and how the sector can meet the Paris agreem...

Declining roof window sales has resulted in overstocking and a need to scale back production in European factories. 

From October 1st The VELUX Group will reduce the heating in all VELUX locations in Europe to a level between 19 – 21 degrees Celsius.

VELUX Group and Hydro have agreed to a joint target to reduce CO2  emitted per kilo of aluminium, contributing to the VELUX Group goal to halve value chain emissions by 2030.

The VELUX Group has won Sustainability Award in the climate strategy category hosted by EY and the Danish Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen, Denmark.