By Anna-Claudia Erichsen
DTU has just built a 230-metre path, 'Nordstien', which runs from Nordvej in the south to Lundtoftegårdsvej in the north, where PensionDanmark’s student housing units are located.
Nordstien is for pedestrians and cyclists and will be a natural extension of the future campus thoroughfare, which will be a central car-free connection along the first and fourth quadrants. The path facilitates campus access for the students who live in the student housing units, just as it invites everyone to enter DTU. The path is illuminated by classic DTU park lamps, so that people can safely use it in the evening and in the dark winter period.
Tree trunks are part of biological cycle
Nordstien is paved with castle gravel, which has been specially developed for the establishment of gravel pavements, and it winds through the small piece of forest between DTU and Hempelgrunden. The trunks of the trees felled in the forest have been left in small stacks in the underbrush as part of DTU’s strategy to promote biodiversity on campus.
DTU plants 2,400 trees
In connection with the establishment of Nordstien, DTU is planting 2,400 small oak trees on Hempelgrunden. The trees are planted in a small belt east of the path and in a 30-metre wide belt across Hempelgrunden towards Building 266. The piece of forest is part of the fringe forest encircling the whole of DTU.
