The Danish transport company DSV will open a new 95,000m2 warehouse and office facility close to Copenhagen, with a DGNB Silver pre-certification with a strong focus on sustainability during the construction process.
DVS said that the addition of this giant warehouse to its logistics centre in Hedehusene constitutes an effort to meet the demand for storage space in the Greater Copenhagen area.
Marcel Blomjous, managing director of DSV solutions Denmark, claimed that the overall project is one of the most ambitious warehousing and logistics projects on Danish soil in recent years.
“The warehouse is divided into multiple sections, enabling us to support many different types of customers with their warehousing needs and distribution,” he added.
The logistics hub includes DSV’s largest AutoStore installation, an automated storage and picking solution that harnesses the power of robotics to collect goods in a three-dimensional grid structure and then deliver them at the manually operated packing station.
As this feature will be available to multiple users at the same time, it is estimated that it will be well suited for both large and small e-commerce companies that need to be able to scale their stocks quickly.
Additionally, good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP) -certified cooling and freezing facilities have been constructed in parts of the building, enabling healthcare companies to handle their products in accordance with the existing rules and at temperature zones extending to as low as -80 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, DSV is currently testing a battery solution combined with solar cells on parts of the building’s roof to store energy, in order to minimise the carbon emissions from the operations.
Particularly, the battery stores solar energy during the day so that the energy can also be used during the evening and night. “In connection with the excess generation of solar energy during the day, the surplus energy can therefore be supplied to the national power grid,” explained DSV in a statement.
Provisional calculations from DSV’s partner in the test project, Hybrid Greentech, show that the solar cell and battery solution can reduce carbon emissions by up to 42% relative to a scenario without solar cells and batteries.
With the current solution, the annual carbon emission reduction could amount to approximately 113 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, according to a statement.
The new building will be the largest on DSV’s plots in Hedehusene, at which DSV’s global headquarters are also located.
DSV has also announced that the fourth warehouse of approximately 38,000 m2 is expected to be ready for use by the end of 2022. Once the construction work has been completed, the overall area will reportedly be part of one of the largest logistics centres in the Nordic Region, which is estimated to cover an area of a total of 231,500 m2 by the end of 2022.
