Livinglean Aps.

What Livinglean Aps. does

LivingLean ApS is a privately held Danish consulting firm, founded in 2009 and headquartered at DTU Science Park in Hørsholm, north of Copenhagen. The firm specializes in collaboration development and process optimization for the Danish construction industry, serving building owners (bygherre), consultants (rådgivere), contractors (entreprenører), and craftsmen across renovation, new-build, and infrastructure projects. LivingLean positions itself as an independent sparring partner that addresses the structural collaboration failures inherent to construction's fragmented value chain, where multiple responsibility shifts produce knowledge loss, time waste, and inter-party conflict.

The firm's core intellectual property consists of three proprietary measurement tools — Samarbejdsmåling (collaboration measurement), Potentialemålingen® (potential measurement), and ESG Potentialemålingen® (ESG-specific measurement) — combined with a proprietary methodology called Tillidsbaseret Lean® (Trust-based Lean) that integrates collaboration development with Last Planner System and Lean Construction process optimization. These instruments generate baseline and recurring pulse measurements (every 4-6 months) that quantify collaboration, efficiency, work climate, and ESG culture. The measurement tools are complemented by service modules including scheduling (Tidsplanlægning), collaboration workshops (Samarbejdsworkshops), project mediation (Projektmediation), project communication (Projektkommunikation), regenerative leadership (Regenerativ ledelse), and ISO/audit preparation. The team of 1-10 employees includes senior partners with backgrounds in HR change management, business psychology, construction, military leadership, law/mediation, journalism, and certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt practitioners.

LivingLean operates a pure professional services revenue model, with quote-based project engagements billed to enterprise and government construction clients. The firm distributes services through direct consulting engagements embedded into project workflows, supported by a content marketing strategy built on a Danish-language blog, individual partner LinkedIn profiles, and earned media in industry publications such as Byrummonitor. Named enterprise customers include PensionDanmark (a quoted reference client across multiple projects including Christian Hansen Innovation Campus and Sirius), CH Byg (Borup), ATP Ejendomme (Carl Bro Haven), FSB (Brønspark), and Hillerød Municipality, alongside the multi-site Høje Taastrup C urban development. The firm holds no external funding, operates exclusively within Denmark, and is owned and managed by its founding partners Torben Vang and Peter Rishøj.

Name

Livinglean Aps.

Legal name

LivingLean ApS

Website

https://livinglean.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LivingLean ApS is a Danish consulting firm that provides collaboration measurement tools, Trust-based Lean methodology, and hands-on consulting services to building owners, contractors, and consultants in the Danish construction industry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Product Sustainability & LCA/EPD (Eco-design, PCF) (EUAHAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Real Estate Public-Private Partnership (PPP) & Infrastructure-Adjacent Real Estate Advisory (BPAJANAL)

Keywords

• Construction consulting
• Lean construction
• Collaboration measurement
• Construction project management
• Building stakeholder mediation

Headquarters

HQ city

Hørsholm

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: LivingLean generates revenue through professional consulting services delivered to construction projects. Services include collaboration workshops, individual sparring, team development, measurements, and leadership development. They function as independent sparring partners creating trust-based collaboration processes with project stakeholders.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

LivingLean ApS provides hands-on consulting services and proprietary measurement tools that improve collaboration, process efficiency, and ESG outcomes in Danish construction projects. The core offering combines three signature measurements (Samarbejdsmåling, Potentialemålingen®, ESG Potentialemålingen®) with services including collaboration workshops, project mediation, project communication, scheduling, regenerative leadership, and ISO/audit preparation, all unified by the Tillidsbaseret Lean® methodology.

Product overview

Livinglean Aps. offers a suite of collaboration and process optimization services for the construction industry. The core offering consists of three proprietary measurement tools: Samarbejdsmåling (Collaboration Measurement) for assessing ongoing cooperation between project parties; Potentialemålingen® (Potential Measurement) for gathering daily-experience insights from craftspeople and site managers; and ESG Potentialemålingen® for measuring sustainability-related collaboration and work climate. These measurement tools are complemented by service modules including Tidsplanlægning (scheduling/Planning), Samarbejdsworkshops (collaboration workshops), Projektmediation (project mediation), Projektkommunikation (project communication), and Regenerativ ledelse (regenerative leadership). The methodology underlying all offerings is Tillidsbaseret Lean® (Trust-Based Lean), LivingLean's proprietary approach that integrates collaboration development with Lean process optimization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Samarbejdsmåling: LivingLean's recurring collaboration indicator measurement targeted at client, consultant, and contractor, used as a baseline measurement and risk indicator, repeatable as a pulse measurement every 4-6 months.
• Potentialemålingen®
• ESG Potentialemålingen®
• Tillidsbaseret Lean®
• Projektmediation
• Projektkommunikation
• Regenerativ ledelse
• Samarbejdsløftet

Products and services

• Samarbejdsmåling
• Potentialemålingen®
• ESG Potentialemålingen®
• Samarbejdsworkshops
• Projektmediation (Project Mediation)
• Projektkommunikation (Project Communication)
• Tidsplanlægning (Scheduling)
• Regenerativ ledelse (Regenerative Leadership)
• Klar til audits og ISO

Quantifiable outcome

• Marked improvement in collaboration scores over 12-month project periods measured through Samarbejdsmåling
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Lean Construction-DKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLivingLean collaborated with Lean Construction-DK on the development project 'Lean i renoveringsprojekter' (Lean in Renovation Projects), which produced publications and recommendations for efficient renovation processes.
• BUILD (Aarhus University)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBUILD was a research partner in the 'Lean i renoveringsprojekter' development project, contributing academic research and documentation to the collaboration improvement methodologies.
• MinRapportminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThomas Juhl's company MinRapport develops digital solutions for construction projects focusing on resource consumption and CO2 documentation. Currently in a development project with LivingLean and Hillerød Municipality to improve waste sorting on construction sites.
• Re-labminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSigne Skall Toke's company Re-lab is a consultancy and knowledge platform for new ways of organizing work and behavioral change in green transition. Provides expertise on organizational restructuring and behavioral changes for LivingLean's client engagements.
• Byggeriets SamfundsansvarminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThomas Samsø Bloch initiated Samarbejdsløftet (The Collaboration Pledge) in collaboration with Byggeriets Samfundsansvar and Bygherreforeningen, aiming to reduce conflicts in the construction industry through increased focus on constructive collaboration.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Procore: Global construction management software platform with collaboration and project coordination capabilities. Targets the same construction stakeholders (owners, contractors, consultants) LivingLean serves, but via a software product rather than advisory services.
• Implement Consulting Group: Danish-origin management and technology consulting firm with project-based engagements that overlap with LivingLean's process optimization and change-management work, though far broader in scope and scale.
• COWI: Danish engineering consultancy with deep construction-sector involvement. Overlaps with LivingLean on construction project advisory and stakeholder collaboration, but serves a much wider engineering and infrastructure mandate.
• AtkinsRéalis: Global engineering services and project management consultancy with a significant construction advisory practice. Competes for the same institutional owner's-side consulting engagements, though at vastly greater scale and broader scope.
• Ramboll: Large Danish engineering, design, and management consultancy with construction-adjacent advisory offerings. Comparable on construction-industry clients and project advisory, but vastly broader portfolio and global footprint.
• KPMG (Global Construction practice): Big Four advisory firm with a dedicated construction and infrastructure practice providing project advisory, ESG, and transformation consulting to construction stakeholders globally.

Regional players

• Dalux: Danish construction-technology company offering BIM and project collaboration tools. Comparable on construction collaboration workflows in Denmark, but operates as a software vendor rather than a consultancy.
• Byggecentrum: Danish construction-industry knowledge and networking organization offering advisory-style services and events connecting construction stakeholders. Comparable on construction-industry knowledge dissemination and convening role in Denmark.

Emerging players

• LeanAkademiet: Danish Lean training and advisory organization founded by Kurt Hansen, a LivingLean 'Kompetencepartner'. Overlaps with LivingLean on Lean methodology training and construction-sector Lean deployment in Denmark.

Direct peers

• Lean Construction-DK: Danish network organization promoting Lean Construction principles. Closest peer in terms of methodology and target market, and a LivingLean co-development partner on the 'Lean i renoveringsprojekter' initiative producing joint publications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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