Insight
In NIRAS, we strongly believe in the concept that with knowledge comes responsibility. We regularly participate in conventions and organize after-work-meetings with clients and collaborators, focusing on specific areas of expertise. Online, we do likewise. In the articles below, our experts share observations and opinions that are not limited to specific projects. We paint with broad strokes, putting larger themes into perspective. By presenting facts, insights, and know-how, we hope to inspire decision makers and other professionals. We hope that decision makers and other professionals will find inspiration in our insights and know-how.
How to make your company CO2-neutral
An increasing number of companies are taking it upon themselves to reduce their CO2 emissions. Here we provide a simplified guide to the process of making your company CO2-neutral.
How dashboards are connecting BIM and ICT in complex building projects
The construction of Denmark's first high-rise waterworks got flipped around when the heavy process plants had to adapt to the building – contrary to the other way around. This required a BIM-dashboard that signalled red at any risk of error.
We think we have the right answers, but we are often asking the wrong questions
What do you see? A personal reflection on implementing communications for development effectively
The not-so-secret ingredient of ensuring equitable access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene
The Programme Director of a multi-year, large scale capacity-building intervention reflects on the critical need for strengthening organisational capacity to sustain essential services and support institutional responses in times of crisis and beyond.
Why ‘Targeting the Target Group’ is out!
Communication for Development or C4D - a brief look at a long history - and its relevance in times of COVID-19
What are we missing in the financial response to COVID-19?
To avoid the perpetuation of gender and other types of inequality, there has never been a more important time to ensure public finance management systems take into consideration the needs of all citizens, in all their diversity.
What do you see of C?
The power and effectiveness of infographics and information in times of corona
Power-to-X: From windy weather and air pollution to green fuels
Power-to-X makes it possible for us to fly on sustainable aviation fuel. And it is mentioned as the key technology that will make the green transition succeed.
Drying process is crucial in medical cannabis production
The drying process is essential in the production of medical cannabis in order to ensure clean products that meet the requirements set out by the Danish Medicines Agency and other health authorities. NIRAS's ventilation and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) engineers are experts in designing cannabis production facilities.
Climate crisis: we can capture, store and use CO2 with new applications of existing technologies
By using innovative solutions we can start to capture and collect CO2 before it reaches the atmosphere, so we can deal with it in a responsible manner. Especially technologies that aim to store CO2 in the underground geological structures will help reduce the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere in the near future.
Virtual Brewery: Simulation can prevent problems and add value to brewing sector
Digital simulation programs in the food and beverage sector have improved immensely in recent years. NIRAS’ expert knowledge of how to combine these tools with process design can contribute to decrease construction costs, prevent bottlenecks and add overall value to breweries.
Global Goals are levers for making ambitious demands on buildings
Using a Danish industrial giant as a case study, 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 all companies: Remember the entire value chain
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.
