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new office facilities for global wind turbine company Vestas. The building has
been designed by Arkitema Architects and will be first building in Northern
Europe to obtain the exclusive LEED certification category platinum. Only
approximately 150 commercial buildings in the world have obtained the American
LEED certificate in the platinum category. According to the Danish building
code the Vestas offices will be a low-energy class 1 building. The new Vestas
HQ is fitted with Denmark’s largest geo thermal installation and uses
approximately 50% less energy than an average conventional office building.Architecturally, House of
Vestas contains a range of diverse office and working places. The atrium is the
arrival zone and the central gathering place to which all the other functions
relate. In the big open atrium two large stone volumes are placed, which
function as meeting centres for the entire building. The design of the office
workplaces includes flexible walls that can be arranged and adapted to changing
needs, at an interval of three metres. As such, varied office spaces ranging
from 1 to 20 individuals can easily be constructed without changing the
technical installations.