Use circular demolition rules in Taastrup

In Taastrup, circular demolition rules were written so the old city hall would not be smashed by default. The 1980 hall at Bygaden 2 is being kept and turned into homes. That saves more than sorting rubble.

What you can do in Taastrup

• Walk by Bygaden 2 and see the hall that stayed up (Høje-Taastrup on the old hall)
• Ask your council to require a resource map before it sells a building for demolition
• Ask for at least 80 percent by weight of clean materials to be reused, recycled, or recovered if a part must come off
• Look at the new city hall, which was built with a recycled concrete foundation (CityLoops handbook)
• If you pay for a demolition in Denmark, set a reuse aim with the Værdibyg guide before the tender (Værdibyg booklet)

How to join

The municipality sold the old hall to IKANO with circular conditions. A pre-demolition audit had to map harmful materials and parts worth keeping. Selective demolition applied to parts that could not be used in place. The later plan keeps the hall, about 17,000 square metres, and turns it into about 200 homes, with about 130 townhouses around it. The old heat plant on the grounds is planned as a neighbourhood house of about 200 square metres. The grounds are about 100,000 square metres. Staff left in February 2023 for a new hall at Rådhusstræde 1. This is not an open-house tour. You can see the building from the street.

Why it matters in Taastrup

Keeping the hall avoids about 20,000 tonnes of new raw material and about 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide compared with knocking it down, according to the CityLoops account. A resident in Copenhagen can reach Høje-Taastrup by suburban rail and see a real case of "do not demolish if the building can still work". Find more community projects in Høje-Taastrup.

Good to know

• What if some parts still come off? The updated rules still ask for selective demolition of those parts, and they count a structure that stays standing as fully kept in use.
• Where is the new hall? It is at Rådhusstræde 1. The photo shows that tower. The old hall is at Bygaden 2.

Source & repost

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Source: CityLoops circular construction handbook. CityLoops received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 programme, grant 821033. Update: Høje-Taastrup Municipality. Also Værdibyg.
Details checked: 2026-09-24.