Programme

Zero-emission construction sites entail zero-emission machines and zero-emission transport. Key to reaching this goal is innovative procurement and sustainable construction requirements.

We must act, but we need to do it in clever way. The industry, contractors, several public procurers must all join together to make the transition. It's time to change the system, but changing from the old paradigm to a new greener, safer and more productive building and maintaining system requires us all to join forces.

Guests from different road authorities in Europe, the industry and contractors will let us know what is going on and what´s needed to take the next step:  

• Where is the industry, for example Volvo? 
• Existing strategies (goals, business strategies etc. in The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)?
• A new paradigm requires a system perspective in: planning, design, construction, maintenance?
• Crosslink Södertörn, a new  way of sharing risk and pushing the market?

Moderator: Pontus Gruhs, Chief Strategist, Swedish Transport Administration

Speakers: Tora Leifland, Head of Public Affairs, Volvo Construction Equipments; Peter Wallin, Research Leader, Electrification and Automation, Boliden Group; Magnus Lindgren, Senior Advisor, Emissions Free Construction Equipment, Trafikverket; Dik de Weger, Program Manager, Emissions Free Construction Equipment, Rijkwaterstaat. Aafke Oude Avenhuis, Program Manager Sustainability, Heijmans. 

Currently there is a boom in tunnel technology. The market offers cutting-edge technology. The dilemma is that the operations managers are looking for stabile technical solutions that will exist for 15-20 years whilst the market is driven towards constant development, updates, and changes.

This session will present the following three topics and concrete examples from ongoing tunnel projects:

1. Challenges regarding software and hardware in large scale tunnel projects
   Large scale tunnel projects have big costs for software and hardware and as well as long lead times from the time when software and hardware are purchased until the plant owner takes over responsibility for the software and hardware. How does one ensure that software and hardware is updated and hasn’t reached, or is close to, end-of-life when plant owners take over responsibility.  (Oddvar Kaarmo, Norwegian Administration of Public Roads & Ahmed Al-Samarray, Norwegian Administration of Public Roads)

2. Who should decide a tunnels functionality, the operations manager or the market?
   Shall we, as plant owners, be the ones that decide how the equipment and systems within a tunnel should behave and interact to form a stable and secure tunnel? Or should we leave it to the market to decide for us?  (Peter Henningsen, Femern A/S)

3. How can we use status and alarm data to predict maintenance in our tunnels?
   How do you choose the right alarms for your tunnel amongst all the various alarms future technology can provide. (Ulf Malmros, AFRY)

Moderators: Emelie Bjerkander, Security Officer, Danish Road Directorate and Mette Waldorff, Safety Officer, A/S Øresundsbroen

Speakers: Oddvar Kaarmo, Head of Projects, Norwegian Administration of Public Roads; Ahmed Al-Samarray, Senior Engineer Geologist, Norwegian Administration of Public Roads; Ulf Malmros, Senior Expert Infrastructure Automation, AFRY; Peter Henningsen, Design Manager E&M Monitoring and Control Systems, Femern A/S

Copenhagen has several times been ranked as the world’s best city for cycling, and deservedly so, as 26 % of all trips in the city is by bicycle and the city has an extremely well-developed bicycle infrastructure. But cycling is not just an important mode of transportation in the largest cities, and in this session we will focus on cycling on both a city, regional and national level.

You’ll learn about Cycle Superhighways in Denmark, strategies for green mobility and the 10-minute city in Lillehammer, Norway, bicycle streets across Europa and mobility planning through cycling data in Denmark.

Moderator: Christian Grunert Rantorp from The Danish Road Directorate

Speakers:  

Jonas Wamsler, Specialist Consultant at The Danish Road Directorate

Anna Dinesen, Academic Specialist at Danish Centre for Cycling Knowledge at The Danish Road Directorate

Gunhild Stugaard, Head of the Planning Department and Lieneke Bekkema, Planning Advisor and Project Leader at City of Lillehammer, Norway

Signe Møller Strandvig, Head of Office, Cycle Superhighways in Central Region Denmark

Transportation is key to a sustainable future. The mobility of people and goods is crucial for global prosperity, but it’s crucial that transport system meets the climate targets set by the UN, the EU, and the national parliaments. The current EU strategy for how the European transport system can achieve its green transformation includes the greening of road freight on the European road infrastructure.

In this session we will discuss the transition to climate smart road freight.

• Electrification of road freight - infrastucture for charging (Andreas Egense)
• The transition to green propellants on Heavy Goods Vehicles - charging, parking and resting areas for commercial vehicles in Nordic Countries (Martin Frimann Mortensen)
• More efficient road freight and electrification is crucial for economy, road traffic safety and climate targets (Lena Larsson)
• High capacity transport and alternative fuels - EU level challenge (Otto Lahti)

Moderator: Mårten Johansson, Head of Technique, The Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies

Resp. Mårten Johansson, Head of Technique, The Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies, and Lena Larsson, Project Manager, Volvo

Speakers: Andreas Egense, Head of Department, Danish Road Directorate; Lena Larsson, Project Manager, Volvo; Martin Frimann Mortensen, Engineering Consultant, Danish Road Directorate; Otto Lahti, Chief Advisor, Traficom. 

The take-off for this session is a guided walk in Copenhagen, followed by a workshop session on sustainable street planning using case material from the guided tour. The following workshop uses an EU licensed tool developed by the city of Malmö.

13:00 Technical tour, meeting place: Outside by the main entrance
Guide:  Søren Stig Hansen, Project Manager, City of Copenhagen  

15:00 Coffee break

15:30: Workshop session on sustainable street planning-

Sustainable street planning (workshop)

Contemporary urban street planning focuses on accommodating traffic, environmental and technical demands and often neglect to include social aspects of importance for the quality of life in our cities. The session aims at broadening the planning perspective and analyse streets both as transportation links and as spaces with a wide variety of urban functions by using a tool developed by the city of Malmö. This tool, consisting of 3D prints and linear acetates, was developed within the framework for the EU project MORE (www.roadspace.eu) as an extension of the co-creation tool LineMap. The methodology and the tool have been implemented successfully in several projects, and there is a growing demand among colleagues and planners.

Moderators: Mia Stampe Lagergaard, Project Manager, Danish Road Directorate; Maria Brodde Makri, Infrastructure Strategist, City of Malmö and Søren Stig Hansen, Project Manager, City of Copenhagen

Chair and Co-Chair of the NVF-working group on Urban Transport and Transport Planning: Ine Hilling, Norwegian Public Roads Administration  and Håkon Sverke Vindenes, Norwegian Public Roads Administration 

The Nordhavn Tunnel is essential for the planned urban development of the Copenhagen area Nordhavn. The Danish Road Directorate is responsible for the construction of the Nordhavn Tunnel in Copenhagen. The tunnel will be built on behalf of Copenhagen Municipality, who is also responsible for financing the project together with By & Havn and the future company for Lynetteholmen. The project entails the construction of a 1,4 km tunnel across the Svanemølle Bay and the construction of a replacement harbour for approximately 600 boats in Færgehavn Nord.  It is decided that the tunnel shall be established as a long tunnel from the existing Nordhavnsvej-tunnel to Kattegatvej’s extension, with preparation for a possible future Østlig Ringvej (eastern ring road).

The budget of the entire project is 3.4 billon DKK and the tunnel should be ready for traffic in summer 2027. The expected traffic is 8.200 vehicles per day.

Nordhavn is a rapidly developing district. By og Havn I/S, which owns the majority of Nordhavn, has begun an expansion of the area, which means that Nordhavn will eventually house 40,000 inhabitants and the same number of jobs. This will lead to an increasing need for more roads and other infrastructure, so that it will be easier to get to and from Nordhavn.

Cycling tour Copenhagen (25 persons)

A cycling tour through central parts of Copenhagen

The tour will take the participants through a sample of Copenhagen’s bicycle infrastructure, including iconic solutions like the Bicycle Snake and the busiest bike path in the World on Queen Louise’s Bridge. We will also look at solutions for pedestrians, universal design and urban design.

We will make stops at some of the interesting locations and discuss pros and cons of the solutions we see.
Guide: Jacob Deichmann, Chief Consultant, Architect, Traffic Planner at Rambøll Danmark AS 

The Traffic Tower in Copenhagen contains control centres for the railway in Eastern Denmark, the commuter train in the metropolitan area and all national roads in Denmark. The Traffic Tower has been operating since 2015 with an exciting architecture built especially for the purpose of traffic management.
The visit will include a brief introduction to the background, architecture and ideas behind the Traffic Tower. There will be a visit to the traffic management centre of the Danish Road Directorate with introduction to the use of traffic management systems, co-operation with national radio broadcast and sharing of data with service providers about incidents.

The study tour will include a visit to Copenhagen's new bus terminal at Dybbølsbro in Copenhagen. The visit will focus on the terminal's intelligent transport infrastructure (ITS). The terminal will bring together the many long-distance buses that run in and out of Denmark's capital every day, as well as give the approximately 1.4 million annual long-distance bus passengers an easier, smarter and safer journey.

Deadline for registration is 6 June, 2024.

Join us for a tour to the construction of “The Greater Copenhagen Light Rail”. This tour will begin with a short project presentation at Tivoli Congress Centre. The presentation will present the ideas behind the project and give a short introduction to the technical design.   After the presentation the participants will board the S-train for a short ride to the construction site in the city “Lyngby” together with the guide. Here the participants will be given the second part of the project presentation and a site visit.

In 2025 the Greater Copenhagen Light Rail will run every five minutes in each direction during daytime hours, and every ten minutes in the evenings and at weekends. In June 2014, the company “Greater Copenhagen Light Rail” was established, to build and operate the light rail system.

The capital's light rail will have 29 stations on a 28 kilometer long stretch.

The company is headed by a Board of Directors with owner representatives, i.e. the 11 municipalities, the Capital Region and the Danish State, represented by the Ministry of Transport, Building, and Housing.

Join us on an exciting tour, where you will get up close with the construction of Copenhagen's new peninsula and flood protection project, Lynetteholm.

The tour starts with a boat trip from Copenhagen's South Harbour to the historic harbour area, Nordre Toldbod, where the development company By & Havn is headquartered. During the trip, By & Havn's Sales and Development Director, Ingvar Sejr Hansen, will talk about the visions for Lynetteholm and the actual work of building the peninsula between Refshaleøen and Nordhavn in the Port of Copenhagen.

The Danish Parliament adopted the construction of Lynetteholm in June 2021, and construction work started in January 2022. With the construction of the 275-hectare peninsula, Copenhagen is creating space for surplus soil from the city's construction sites to be used as fill and flood protection for the city, while creating opportunities for future urban development, new infrastructure as well as a new coastal landscape on the peninsula. In technical terms, the design of the coastal landscape is known as 'nature-based flood protection', and it will be part of an overall flood plan for Copenhagen.

Along the way, you'll stop at By & Havn's exhibition 'Coastal landscape as flood protection'. Through videos, visualisations and live streaming from the construction site, you can get a special insight into the design of the coastal landscape and how Copenhagen has chosen to meet future climate change with this type of flood protection, where not a dyke, but Lynetteholm's stone dams and coastal landscape will help protect against future sea level rises.

The tour ends at the top of Copenhill, where there is a fantastic view of both the entire construction project and the whole of Copenhagen, and where the Danish company Aarsleff, the contractor on the project, will be on hand to explain how the actual construction work is being carried out.

Copenhagen’s harbour bridges are an essential part of Copenhagen’s bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Join us for a guided technical tour along several of the new bicycle and pedestrian bridges in Copenhagen’s harbour.

The tour is guided by specialised bridge architects from Dissing+Weitling: Architect and partner Jesper Henriksen and bridge architect Kasper Svanberg.

After a presentation, the tour will continue with a four-kilometre walking tour along the waterfront and across five of the iconic bridges that have been added to Copenhagen's beautiful harbour area in recent years. The bridges have not only contributed to exciting architecture, but also to a more cohesive and green capital city. The City of Copenhagen's ambitious cycling strategy has resulted in more pedestrian and bicycle bridges, giving vulnerable road users safer, healthier and more efficient mobility.

The tour includes:

The Bicycle Snake
The Bicycle Snake [Cykelslangen] has become an award-winning element in the branding of Copenhagen as a cycling city. The iconic cycle bridge connects neighbourhoods and beautifully transports cyclists across the harbour.

The Wharf Bridge                  
The Wharf Bridge [Bryggebroen] together with the Bicycle Snake, connects the neighbourhoods of Vesterbro and Islands Brygge. Together, the two beautiful cycle bridges help make Copenhagen one of the world's very best cycling cities.

The Circle Bridge                   
The Circle Bridge [Cirkelbroen] is located by Christianshavn Canal and is a new harbour landmark. It consists of five circular platforms of different sizes, each with its own mast. In addition to making it easier for Copenhageners to walk and cycle around, the bridge is also intended as an inviting place to spend time, similar to other public squares in the city.

Little Langebro                     
Little Langebro [Lille Langebro] is Copenhagen's latest addition to a series of initiatives that help make Copenhagen one of the world's best cycling cities. Up to 10,500 users use Lille Langebro on a daily basis and it has thus greatly relieved the neighbouring bridge "Langebro” [Long Bridge], which is used by more than 40,000 cyclists every day.

Kalvebod wave                    
Kalvebod Wave [Kalvebod Bølge] is a place for relaxation, movement, play and swimming and forms Kalvebod Brygge's harbour promenade. The bridge is an urban space that has helped transform Kalvebod Brygge from an area characterised by office buildings to an area with much more life, bringing the city closer to the water through its undulating surfaces.

The map is available for download here.

Listen to road noise auralisations at Force Technology's laboratory in Hørsholm.

Road noise auralisations are precise sound demonstrations of roads and noise reduction measures, that are being planned but not yet built.

For a decade, the Danish Road Directorate has used auralisations when presenting new roads for the local authorities and for the public. Auralisations makes it possible to listen to the noise outside at sensitive locations along the road. This is considered an add-on to road noise maps and visualizations.

During the event we will show you how auralisations are made and you will listen to some interesting auralisations. Right now, we are also working on visualizations to support and improve the perceived experience with auralisations.

Auralisations are also very useful to demonstrate acoustical effects of e.g., noise barriers and the influence of wind and other conditions. For example, you can listen to the effectiveness of a noise barrier before deciding it’s exact design.

We use Nord2000 to calculate the noise at the auralised position which makes auralisations as precise as detailed noise predictions in the surroundings of the road.

Join us for a tour to some of the city of Copenhagen's cloudburst mitigation projects.
Come to Karens Minde and Scandiagade and see two of the largest cloudburst projects in Copenhagen.

Karens Minde

The Karens minde project consists of a 600 metre long "watercourse" in an area that normally functions as a park, but during heavy rainfall is transformed into a watercourse that protects a large urban area from damage during cloudburst. The project was developed in close dialogue with the area's users and is a great example of how climate challenges can be combined with urban renewal.

Scandiagade
In Scandiagade, seven “sunken gardens” have been established to manage cloudburst events in the area. The cloudburst solution is included as a recreational meeting place for the residents around the project. The project works both as a cloudburst solution and for handling everyday rain and is designed in dialogue with the citizens

DTI is at the forefront of research and development within recycling of concrete and asphalt in Denmark. The study trip will include visits to DTI’s advanced laboratories, where you will learn about our latest research work to decrease the environmental impact of concrete and asphalt materials. Related to concrete you will gain insight into the latest progress in the project (P)Recast, which aims to enable reuse of entire precast concrete elements. Related to asphalt you will learn from a practical perspective how DTI mix and test BSM (bitumen stabilized material), a cold mixed material for asphalt base layers. You will also learn about DTI’s latest progress in supporting the road industry to implement use of the product at scale.

For more information about (P)RECAST – Reuse of Precast Concrete Elements: https://www.dti.dk/projects/p-recast/43887

For more information about BSM (in Danish): https://www.teknologisk.dk/projekter/koldblandet-asfaltbaerelag-bsm/41567