MARGO FROM SUSTAINABLE CITIES
MARGO FROM SUSTAINABLE CITIES
ENGINEER IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES AT THE METRO COMPANY
Margo Fredericks has studied Sustainable Citiesis a climate- and environmental consultant in the Metro Company in Copenhagen. She works with climate protection, reduction and recycling of construction waste. As well as ensuring a focus and attention towards the sustainability efforts in the entire company.
GREEN DEVELOPMENTTEAM
The Metro Company oversees the transport of the future in Copenhagen, including construction of new metro lines and maintenance of current ones. Engineer in Sustainable Cities, Margo Fredericks form the green development team in the company’s plan- and development department together with three colleagues.
-Sustainable city development is directed at the city’s systems and how they are connected. You operate with four categories: energy, water, transport/mobility, and waste. And I am lucky enough to be working with all four, she says.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, RECYCLING AND CLIMATE PROTECTION
Important tasks for Margo Fredericks and her colleagues are looking into whether construction waste from the Metro construction can be reduced or potentially recycled directly at the site. In that area, she achieved a wide knowledge through her education, which is useful for advising the lawyers of the Metro Company about the sustainability aspects in connection with making tender material.
Furthermore, the designs that are used must continuously be evaluated, so an optimal material consumption and the least resource heavy design of the stations are ensured:
-Things develop all the time. For instance, the ventilation systems in our first metro construction were much bigger that they are
now, so we shouldn’t just say: “Everything works well, so we build in exactly the same way,” she explains.
-Things develop all the time. For instance, the ventilation systems in our first metro construction were much bigger that they are now, so we shouldn’t just say: “Everything works well, so we build in exactly the same way,” she explains.
Another focus area is securing the metro stations against flooding in case of storm surge and extreme rain. Here, she uses calculations from a consulting engineer company, which evaluates how the development of the climate affects the occurrence of extreme rain- and storm surge incidents in the next 50 or 100 years and keeps up with how the prognoses affect the risks for Copenhagen and the metro.
PROFESSIONALINSIGHTAND UNDERSTANDING
Team Leader Mathilde Mostrup is very pleased to have Margo Fredericks be part of the team:
- Margo brings a professional insight and understanding of some of the most important aspects of our work: sustainability in design, climate adaptation and how the metro contributes to the city. It is a very relevant combination for the challenges the metro must answer to today and even more so in the future. With her educational background, she has contributed since her first day at work.