Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding our members, organisation, international matters, membership, contracts and or insurance. Call us at tel. +45 32 83 05 00, send an e-mail at info@danskeark.dk.

Questions regarding staff and HR, please contact Confederation of Danish Industry (DI).

Our address is Vesterbrogade 1E, 2. sal, 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark.

LARS STORR-HANSEN

CEO, cand. polit.

E lsh@danskeark.dk

LARS EMIL KRAGH

Deputy Officer

E lek@danskeark.dk

SOFIE SCHAUMBURG-LEVY

Secretary

E  ssl@danskeark.dk

KAREN SEJR

Head of Communications

E ks@danskeark.dk

THOMAS LARSEN

Head of Press and Politics

E tla@danskeark.dk

KIRSTINE BRØGGER JENSEN

Chief Consultant

E kbj@danskeark.dk

PREBEN DAHL

Chief Lawyer

E pd@danskeark.dk

SAIT CIFTCI

Chief Consultant, Lawyer

E sc@danskeark.dk

VIBEKE GRUPE

Chief Consultant, Architect MAA, PhD

E vgl@danskeark.dk

SEBASTIAN KALDAHL

Chief Economist

E sk@danskeark.dk 

CECILIE  B. JØRGENSEN

Chief Consultant, Master of Laws

E cbj@danskeark.dk

TEITUR HVIDBRO

Membership Consultant

E th@danskeark.dk

RIKKE FRIIS

Political Consultant

M  21705737

E  rfs@danskeark.dk

KITH LERCHE-GREGERSEN

Member Consultant

M  4043 1546

E  klg@danskeark.dk

EMMA BORGES

Student Assistant, Accounting

E eb@danskeark.dk / bogholderi@danskeark.dk 

KLARA DALGAARD REETZ 

Student Assistant, Communications

E kommunikation@danskeark.dk

The Board: President Katja Viltoft JJW Arkitekter, Jacob Kurek Henning Larsen Architects, Trine Trydeman, 1:1 Landskab Jeanette Hansen 3XN, Thomas Hjort, m4 Arkitekter, Mette Stavad, Pluskontoret, Vibeke Lydolph Lindblad, Christensen & Co, Lone Bendorff, C.F. Møller Architects and Elena Astrid Rojas, Vandkunsten.

The Danish Association of Architectural Firms is run by a board which is elected by the general meeting.

The board consist of a President and eight members elected among the members of the association. The President is elected directly by the General Assembly and must be elected from among the ordinary members.

The President is elected for a term of two years at a time and is eligible for reelection. Other board members are elected among the ordinary members for two years at a time with at least four members up for election each year.

The annual general meeting is held by the end of April each year.

We focus on helping and providing consultancy to our members, but a significant part of our work also involves safeguarding our members’ commercial interests and influencing the regulatory framework through the political system.

Architectural firms – and clients for that matter – spend a lot of time on tenders and prequalifications that are subsequently discarded. This is an untenable business model that is ultimately a waste of both tax payer and the consultant’s money. We are working on doing something about this. The same applies to the green transition, where we believe that an enormous and uncultivated business potential exists for architectural firms – our members.

We are particularly preoccupied by:

• BETTER DESIGN CONTESTS AND LESS TRANSACTION COSTS
  Millions of Danish kroner are wasted on producing unnecessary material and managing unnecessarily complex contests where, ultimately, only the good idea counts. We are working to ensure that resources are instead spent on creating value.
• WHOLE-LIFE COSTS AND HOLISTIC THINKING IN CONSTRUCTION
  If the client adopted a whole-life cost perspective, he/she would often discover that it is much better to view construction as part of a whole throughout the building’s lifecycle. The costs of construction are a fraction of the budget compared with the total lifecycle costs of the building. We need to adopt a more holistic approach in construction and not just use quick-fix solutions.
• CIRCULAR ECONOMY IS THE WAY AHEAD
  Sustainable construction and circular thinking where we recycle and refine products anew is the perfect business case and a business area with considerable and crucial potential. We want Denmark to take the lead to get a commercial advantage and not least, via a set of EU rules, ensure that a single market is established for recycled products so as to prevent trade barriers that stop the circular economy from working across borders.
• DISRUPTION
  The traditional methods and business area of the construction industry are under pressure and challenged. The digitisation of our society and the speed at which Big Data are converted into new business models will challenge traditional consultancy.

The Danish Association of Architectural Firms’ work is based on the strategy ‘Building Better Lives’, which covers the period 2018-2022.

Architecture is an essential part of our welfare society and a condition for cities, urban spaces, landscapes, housing and workplaces being able to support the good life in Denmark. Danish architectural firms – whether big or small – are widely recognised in Denmark and internationally and are rooted in a tradition where we keep an overall perspective without compromising on a high artistic level.

'Building Better Lives – Strategy 2018-2022’ has been developed as part of a broad collaborative process and is the basis for our work within three overall areas:

Strong business

• We must ensure optimum framework conditions
• We must strengthen the commercial focus
• We must exploit digitisation

Alliances

• We must collaborate closely with the construction industry
• We must stand together in the architectural industry
• We must strengthen our members’ cooperation, work across disciplines and networks

Visible value

• We must document our value creation
• We must develop tools and methods for documentation
• We must develop value-based business opportunities