Insight
Global Goals are levers for making ambitious demands on buildings
With a Danish industrial giant as case NIRAS is in the process of developing a tool that can help make the UN Global Goals a reality in building projects. Experience shows that it is important to prioritize goals in order to achieve the greatest effect throughout the whole life cycle of a building project.
What’s in it for me? Garnering public support for environmental efforts
An expert on climate change and natural resource management, Simon Mercer talks about the importance of awareness-raising events like Earth Day in harnessing positive momentum and co-opting local populations into conservation interventions
How factory design can increase food safety and profits
Recent food contamination incidents show that not all companies are aware of how building design can ensure quality and food safety of products throughout the production chain. The building design can contribute to greater efficiency, higher product quality, improved hygiene and increased profits, both when building new factories and restructuring existing plants.
Advanced virtual tools create value for customers
NIRAS apply a series of advanced digital tools to facilitate design of production plants expansions and process upgrades. The speed and accuracy of the tools create increased value for our customers.
NIRAS simulation tools save money and facilitate decision making
NIRAS’s simulation tools make it possible to create a complete virtual 3-D copy of existing or future design of factories or other production facilities. This virtual mirror makes planning and design faster, easier and cheaper.
Sustainable Development Goals in Practice
NIRAS has developed project tools to address the challenges that most companies confront when implementing Sustainable Development Goals
Great potential for future optimization in Hospital Logistics
Hospital Logistics has largely been neglected for several years, and this could affect efficiency and costs in the health sector adversely. But with billions being invested in new hospitals there is a great potential for opportunities and future optimization within this field.
One year post #Metoo … where are we now?
Just over one year ago, sexual harassment and assault burst onto the global stage as the #Metoo movement went viral around the world. Our technical Director of Gender Equality and Human Rights wonders what we’ve actually learned.
On the threshold of Industry 4.0 – the intelligent industry of the future
When you are planning to build a new production plant, change your production or solve production challenges which you cannot directly “calculate yourself out of”, a simulation can test several scenarios and provide you with the best solution.
The climate is calling Danish companies: Remember the entire value chain
Danish companies must become much better at recognizing the climate impact of suppliers in other countries. Merely focusing on activities within the company’s borders is far from accurate - and only a few are taking the possible measures to create an overview of the entire value chain.
The green wave carries on
The private sector’s appetite for renewables is formidable. The green wave is becoming increasingly driven by corporate demand.
Our cup of coffee (and more) is at risk
Only beaten by oil, coffee is the most commonly traded commodity worldwide. Coffee is big business produced by smallholders and threatened by climate change.
Softening is a challenging paradigm shift for Danish utility providers
There are no good standard solutions in the change, which several utility providers are about to make. We can look to an extent at foreign experience of water softening, but a holistic response is to be found in customised solutions for each particular waterworks.
