PrintNews office opened in Copenhagen
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) has moved all its activities to new
facilities: The New Radio & TV House (DR Byen), in the northern part of
Ørestad in Copenhagen. 19th November DR broadcasted its first news programme
from DR Byen’s brand new news office, where the TV and radio production of
news and sport are fused together in attractive new surroundings.
The news office has an open-plan structure giving direct contact between
the studio host and the news editing office in DR News’ common news centre.
The newsreader’s studio is located in a cylinder surrounded by glass.
Behind this glass wall the viewers are able to see the editing in action,
which will serve as a live background for news broadcasts.
NIRAS has made sure of the best conditions
NIRAS has designed the news office with the architects Dissing+Weitling.
NIRAS’ contribution includes the load-bearing constructions and all the
electrical and plumbing installations. Additionally we have made sure that
the news office has an ideal indoor climate with optimal use of daylight
for all the work stations in the open landscape. NIRAS Safety has
prioritised fire safety, just as it did for DR Byen’s concert hall, Segment
1 and The Inner Street.
State of the art
The news office is state of the art within control and monitoring
with a comprehensive BMS (Building Maintenance System) and IBI (Intelligent
Building Installations).
Simulated indoor climate
NIRAS has ensured that the news office has a good indoor climate by
calculating the ideal lighting conditions and through extensive use of
B-sim calculations (simulation of indoor climate).
Fire strategy for open areas
NIRAS Safety has prepared the fire strategy report which has made it
possible to establish the many very large open areas without using an
automatic fire sprinkler system. With the aid of CFD-modelling we have
estimated the build-up and migration of smoke and hereby assessed the
required smoke ventilation rate in the case of fire. Furthermore we have
adopted the Monte Carlo method in the risk assessment of the overall fire
safety performance in DR Byen and the use of DR Fire Fighters as an
alternative to an automatic fire sprinkler system.
For further details please contact Mikael Skouby, tel +45 29 48
33 89 or mis@niras.dk.