JOURNAL16 Aesthetics and sustainability leave a stamp on a new part of town The proximity to water and experimenting architecture are the main attractions in a brand new part of town shooting up in the middle of Denmark’s second largest city. Sustainability also has a high priority and Grundfos contributes with energy efficient pumps. T he waterfront in Aarhus is in transition. Where a container port used to be situated, a canal city is now being constructed, housing as many as 8,000 residents and 12,000 workplaces by the time the last building crane has left the area. All build- ings are constructed as low-energy houses and a relatively large part of them contain rental flats. Sustainability is an overall priority. new part of town. He is far more interested in what is hidden behind the front. “We have sold the pumps for every single building, and when I meet with the customers, it is not to have a cup of coffee with them at the office. I always go for the building sites and technical rooms from the start, where I thoroughly study the contexts in which our pumps have to work”, Morten Vinther says. However, it is neither the buildings’ spectacular architecture nor the unique location right at the water’s edge of Aarhus bay that occupies Senior Sales Engineer, Morten Vinther from the Danish sales company, as he moves around, feeling at home in the Trouble-shooter One of the technical rooms Morten Vinther knows in and out is situated in one of the new part of town’s most significant buildings. It is the seven-sided multimedia house Dokk1, which has attracted great interest
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