HOT | COOL NO. 3/2022 - "How to get started?"

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COLUMN DH IS ALSO A PART OF THE SOLUTION TO THE EUROPEAN GAS CRISIS By Jørgen Nielsen THE OWNER’S ENGINEER ROLE IN SECURING THE RIGHT COMPONENTS By Joao Ricardo Elias

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DISTRICT HEATING AND COOLING IS A NATURAL PART OF THE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE IN MODERN CITIES. By Anders Dyrelund, Frederik Palshøj Bigum and Emil Reinhold Kristensen

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Feedback from our 2019 Conference

HOW TO GET STARTED? Scientist Corner By Maëlle Caussarieu

COMBINED HEAT & POWER – Heat infrastructure planning in Denmark By Katinka Johansen

Use our strengths to help your city. We are the link to:  Achieving climate goals through fossil-free district energy  Strategic energy planning  Knowledge on district heating and cooling  A wide network of experts  Visiting green solutions in Denmark

Adriana: What made me laugh was to see how uncomfortable

the room was at the beginning of the session with the drag queens. We were all like 'oh, this is so weird...' And I was sitting next to people that I'm negoti- ating with or consultants that I work with and we were all like 'aaah....this is not what we do...". And as time went by, things just changed. People embraced it and were designing their dolls…

Lina: ...there was dancing…

The data suggests diversity correlates with better financial performance. Likelihood of financial performance above national industri median, by diversity quartile, % Ethic diversity Top quartile Bottom quartile 58

Adriana: …dancing - that made me laugh a lot! We were just so awkward and out of our com- fort space as soon as we had to do something with glitter and glue and paper!

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Gender diversity Top quartile Bottom quartile

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Gender and ethic diversity combined Top quartile All other quartiles

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Source: McKinsey Diversity Database

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