Vote: KIRKBI, CEBRA, and NIRAS are finalists for the best Danish construction collaboration

The team has reached the final for the outstanding ongoing collaboration on the LEGO Innovation Campus in Billund, Denmark. The public voting for the award ‘Byggeriets Samarbejdspris 2026’ is open until 28 January.

The 50,000 m2 mass timber office building is well underway, earning KIRKBI, CEBRA, and NIRAS their shared place in the final for the award – now placing you in the jury.

The polls are now open for the public vote. Cast your vote here by 28 January.

The Innovation Campus team has been selected based on “a professional, ambitious, and closely linked collaboration,” the nomination statement reads.

“Here, collaboration, user involvement, process understanding, and sustainability have been fundamental from the outset. The model requires strong client-side capabilities, strong leadership, and a high level of commitment. The entire collaboration clearly reflects exactly that,” it concludes.

Your vote will be part of the jury’s overall assessment of the finalists. The winning team will be announced on 19 March.

KIRKBI: “Incredibly easy to navigate”

The Innovation Campus is a 50,000 m² mass-timber office building that will merge playful architecture with ambitious reductions in climate impact. It will balance the diverse needs of a top-tier work environment, emphasising well-being and collaboration.

"Our goal was to create one team with one culture and one shared leadership. This form of collaboration is demanding for all parties, but it is actually very motivating. From the client’s perspective, it is incredibly easy to navigate."

Morten Pedersen, Project Director, Real Estate, KIRKBI

“Our goal was to create one team with one culture and one shared leadership. This form of collaboration is demanding for all parties, but it is actually very motivating. From the client’s perspective, it is incredibly easy to navigate,” said Morten Pedersen, KIRKBI Real Estate, on Værdibyg.

“We find that it is a very good investment to bring together the right competencies and allocate more resources at the beginning of a project. It provides optimised risk management and value creation, and it also delivers a great deal of job satisfaction,” he added.

The project is a contract based on a trade-by-trade basis, showcasing a strong alternative to a turnkey contract in a complex project. Leading the architectural design, CEBRA has worked closely together with KIRKBI, the end users, and NIRAS. Based on trust and openness, the team has worked together for 2.5 years throughout the detailed design phase, sharing an entire extra floor in CEBRA’s head office.

Thanks for supporting this outstanding project, visionary client, and committed project team – working closely together to realise the ambitions we’ve set.

About the award

The ‘Byggeriets Samarbejdspris 2026’ (Construction Collaboration Award 2026) is presented to an organisation, a partnership, or a project that has made an exceptional contribution to developing collaboration and working processes within the construction industry. The award recognises and celebrates projects that apply collaborative methods to achieve greater innovation, less waste, more bio-based building materials, or stronger cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Behind the Danish award stands the professional network Lean Construction-DK Netværket and the philanthropic foundation Boligfonden Kuben.