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Holistic thinking

To reduce CO₂ emissions from buildings, it is necessary to look at a building’s overall qualities, properties and functionality in terms of energy efficiency, healthy indoor climate and renewable energy. Together, these three key areas constitute the core of what VELUX refers to as Sustainable Living – the ability to continue improving the quality of our homes and maintaining high living standards while reducing or eliminating CO₂ emissions.

VELUX defines Sustainable Living as follows:

	Maximum energy efficiency and minimum CO₂ emission take a holistic view of a building and produce a design that incorporates energy efficiency strategic placing of windows to make the most of heat from the sun’s rays, natural ventilation and daylight active use of intelligent building components that interact with their surroundings (externally and internally) and thus optimise the building’s overall energy-efficiency Energy efficiency and CO2 reduction

	Visionary architecture combined with improved health, more human well-being and indoor comfort visionary architecture that takes into account both materials and surroundings in order to create healthy and comfortable conditions maximum daylight and ventilation to ensure optimal indoor climate that will meet future standards fresh air and natural ventilation to ensure a healthy indoor climate and minimise the risk of allergies Healthy indoor climate

	Sustainable energy sources, especially solar thermal energy sustainable energy should be an integral part of a building to ensure a future with less dependence on fossil fuels solar thermal energy can heat and cool a building solar thermal energy can heat domestic hot water Renewable energy

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Holistic thinking

VELUX defines Sustainable Living as follows:

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