Velux announces initiative to solve sustaianability and quality of life issues in residential buildings:

The VELUX Group has announced that they are launching the Re:Living Experiment, as an attempt to solve the issues regarding housing in Europe. Their aim is to test the limits on the positive relationship between people and the planet, by learning from their work on the Living Places pioneer project, a collection of long-standing research on buildings alongside full scale experiments.

They have decided to go back to their roots and take matters into their own hands, to rewrite how we treat renovating homes from the holistic approach to a people-centred one, improving well-being and supporting sustainable practices.

VELUX has split up their experiment into key challenges and oppurtunities, before encouraging collaborative efforts to create ideas and soluctions. These are therefore shaped into concepts which they test in full scaled prototypes and developments, to improve their impact.

The drive behind their work is undeniably justified, considering the statistics that back up its significance. 1/3 of global emissions are directly a result of the built enviroment, while material consumption associated with construction is responsible for 29% of all threatened species. Additionally, we would need to upgrade 146,000,000 buildings across Europe by 2050 to align with the targets set out in the Paris Agreeement, approximately 6 million homes every year. These highlight the vast scope of the problem, only solved by interventions like this at the earliest possible time.

THE PEOPLE / PLANET MODEL:

They have developed this model to establish a framework for all future projects, regardless of whether it is starting from scratch or a small redevelopment. This allows VELUX to maintain stability within their experiements and research, while balancing human requirements with environmental ones. It is also to establish the boundaries that crossover during building projects and recognising our impact on the health of the planet as well as those implications back towards us.

It splits into the 7 "major" factors for a compromised system, Daylight, Thermal Comfort, Internal Air Quality, Acoustic, Energy, Co2 Emissions and Biodiversity Loss.

Find out more at: https://buildforlife.velux.com/en/reliving

7th November 2025

VELUX Initiative:

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