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Vestas Headquarters & offices · Aarhus, Denmark
Vestas · Aarhus, Denmark
A LEED Platinum headquarters in Aarhus, heated and cooled by 36 km of geothermal piping — Denmark's largest combined geothermal system.
Vestas started as a village blacksmith's workshop in Lem on Denmark's west coast. Today the world's wind-turbine pioneer runs its business from Hedeager in Skejby, north Aarhus, where Arkitema designed an office built around a glass-roofed street. Every number below is from Vestas, its architect or its landscape contractor.
- LEED Platinumfirst building in the Nordics to reach it (Buus A/S)
- 37,000colleagues worldwide (2025)
- 88+nationalities in the company (2024)
- 22,500 m²House of Vestas offices, plus a 9,540 m² basement
Sources: Arkitema project page “House of Vestas” · Buus A/S project page “Vestas HQ” · Vestas YouTube (2010) · Vestas Annual Report 2025 announcement · vestas.com DEIB page
Companies / Denmark / Wind energy / Vestas
THE HEADQUARTERS · SKEJBY, AARHUS
An office built around a glass-roofed street
Arkitema designed House of Vestas (2008–2011) as Vestas' new head office in the business area of north Aarhus, visible to everyone arriving from the north. Its dark, reflecting glass-mosaic façade has movable glass plates controlled by the sun, and the building bends to mark its own entrance. Inside, a street in an atrium ties the offices together; meeting centres, an auditorium and the canteen line the street, and the flexible office layout allows rooms for one to twenty people without touching the technical installations. Vestas says the building collects rainwater for toilets and the grounds, sorts all waste, composts kitchen waste, and was built mostly with materials sourced within 800 km.
- Architect: Arkitema
- LEED Platinum
- Denmark's largest geothermal plant
- Atrium street with canteen and auditorium
- 4,000 m² green sedum roofs
- Opened November 2011
House of Vestas by Arkitema
Arkitema designed House of Vestas (2008–2011) around a street in a glass-roofed atrium, behind a dark, reflecting glass-mosaic façade.
The grounds and courtyard gardens (Buus A/S, 2023)
Mirror pools at the Hedeager 42 entrance were replaced with planted seating areas, finished in 2023.
Sources: Arkitema, “House of Vestas – New HQ for Vestas” · Vestas, “Vestas' new HQ in Aarhus, DK” (official YouTube, 2010) · Buus A/S, “Vestas HQ”
Hedeager, Skejby — north Aarhus
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Vestas headquarters | Hedeager 42, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark |
| House of Vestas (Arkitema, 2011) | Hedeager 44, Skejby, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark |
| Corporate Hub, Copenhagen | Ørestads Boulevard 108, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark |
Source: vestas.com, “Contact – Vestas Locations” · Arkitema project page · Vestas press release, 7 Feb 2017 · See them on the map ↓
Source: Arkitema, “House of Vestas” · Vestas official YouTube (2010) · Buus A/S, “Vestas HQ” · Vestas press release, 7 Feb 2017
Office tour videos
How Vestas develops its people, in its own words
70% from job experience, 20% from others, 10% from structured courses — the “3Es” model.
The average Vestas dedicated to training per employee in 2023.
“Continuous Performance & Development”: managers and employees meet through the year on well-being, development and career goals.
People & business leadership, knowledge & innovation leadership, and project leadership — all described as equally important.
Selected employees are prepared for pivotal roles through talent programmes for different levels.
Share of employees represented by an independent trade union or covered by collective bargaining in 2024.
Source: vestas.com, “Your Development” and “Careers in a Vestas Office” · vestas.com, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging”
Who works here
colleagues worldwide (2025)
nationalities (2024)
target for women in leadership by 2030 (25% by 2025)
the Vestas name is born in Lem
Source: Vestas Annual Report 2025 announcement (5 Feb 2026) · vestas.com, “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging” · vestas.com history
From a blacksmith's workshop in Lem to Skejby, Aarhus
- 1898 A blacksmith's workshop in Lem
22-year-old Hans Søren Hansen steps off a train in the farming town of Lem on Denmark's west coast and buys the local blacksmith workshop.
Source: vestas.com, History 1898–1970
Lem Station, 2010 · Poul Krogsgård / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1945 Vestas is born in wooden barracks
Peder Hansen, his father and a handful of colleagues found VEstjysk STaalteknik A/S — soon shortened to Vestas — working from wooden barracks left empty by the Germans and making household appliances.
Source: vestas.com, History 1898–1970
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1960 Fire, and a new factory
The Vestas offices and warehouse burn to the ground. Turnover still beats 1959, and with a new factory Vestas grows to 100 people.
Source: vestas.com, History 1898–1970
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1979 Wind experiments in Lem
After secret tests of an “egg whisk” prototype, Vestas sells and installs its first turbine, with a 10-metre rotor and 30 kW. Early turbines stood at Lem, where one was dismantled in 1981.
Source: vestas.com, History 1971–1986
Lem, 1980 · Paul Gipe / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1987 Vestas Wind Systems A/S
After the 1986 crisis much of the group is sold and Vestas Wind Systems A/S is born, about 60 people strong, focused only on wind.
Source: vestas.com, History 1987–1998
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2006 First stage at Hedeager 42, Skejby
Grounds are laid out around the first stage of the Vestas HQ buildings at Hedeager 42 in Skejby, north Aarhus.
Source: Buus A/S, “Vestas HQ”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2011 House of Vestas opens
Arkitema's 22,500 m² House of Vestas at Hedeager 44 opens in November 2011, designed for LEED Platinum with Denmark's largest geothermal plant. It has since become a multi-user office building that Vestas shares with other companies.
Source: Arkitema, “House of Vestas” · Vestas YouTube (2010)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2017 Sold and leased back
Vestas sells and leases back its Aarhus headquarters buildings; the corporate headquarters stays at Hedeager 42.
Source: Vestas press release, 7 Feb 2017
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 Grounds rebuilt for biodiversity
Mirror pools at the Hedeager 42 entrance are replaced with planted seating areas, finished in 2023.
Source: Buus A/S, “Vestas HQ”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
Vestas' story runs from the station town of Lem on the West Jutland coast to Skejby in north Aarhus, about 110 km to the east.
- 1 · 1898Lem, West Jutland — Hans Søren Hansen buys the blacksmith workshop; Vestas founded here in 1945
- 2 · TodayHedeager 42, Aarhus N — Vestas headquarters in Skejby
Addresses: vestas.com history and “Vestas Locations” pages · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Vestas does
Vestas designs, manufactures, installs and services wind turbines, onshore and offshore. It reports two segments: Power Solutions (turbines and projects) and Service.
Power Solutions (Onshore and Offshore) and Service.
Source: Vestas Annual Report 2025, Company Announcement no. 01/2026 (5 Feb 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€10.2bn → €18.8bn
21,900 → 37,000
Calendar years, revenue in EUR billions as stated in each year's Annual Report company announcement on vestas.com (2016–2018, 2020–2021 rounded as published). Employees: “more than 21,900” (press release Feb 2017), “more than 28,000” (Annual Report 2022 announcement), 37,000 (Annual Report 2025 announcement); other years not shown. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Group President & CEO since 1 August 2019; previously Group CEO of Hempel A/S.
Group President & CEO.
CEO; launched “The Will to Win” strategy.
Managing Director.
Managing Director of the new Vestas Wind Systems A/S.
Roots: blacksmith Hans Søren Hansen (Lem, 1898). Vestas founded in 1945 by Peder Hansen with his father and colleagues.
Source: vestas.com history pages · Vestas company news, 2019 (CEO change) · vestas.com, “Our Management”
Vestas: questions people ask
Where is Vestas' headquarters?
At Hedeager 42, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark, in the Skejby business area of north Aarhus. Vestas also has a Corporate Hub at Ørestads Boulevard 108 in Copenhagen.
Source: vestas.com, Vestas Locations
Who designed the Vestas headquarters?
Danish architects Arkitema designed House of Vestas (2008–2011), including the landscape, with COWI as engineer and Pihl as contractor.
Source: Arkitema, “House of Vestas”
How big is the Vestas headquarters?
House of Vestas has 22,500 m² (about 242,000 sq ft) plus a 9,540 m² basement; Vestas' own video calls the new HQ 23,000 m².
Source: Arkitema · Vestas YouTube (2010)
Is the Vestas headquarters sustainable?
It was designed for LEED Platinum and has Denmark's largest combined geothermal system, with 36 km of piping for heating and cooling. Rainwater flushes toilets and waters the grounds, and 4,000 m² of green sedum roofs hold back rainwater.
Source: Vestas YouTube (2010) · Arkitema · Buus A/S
Does Vestas own its headquarters?
No. In 2017 Vestas sold and leased back its Aarhus headquarters buildings; the corporate headquarters stayed at Hedeager 42.
Source: Vestas press release, 7 Feb 2017
Where was Vestas founded?
In Lem, a farming town on Denmark's west coast. Hans Søren Hansen bought the local blacksmith workshop there in 1898, and Vestas (VEstjysk STaalteknik) was founded in 1945.
Source: vestas.com, History 1898–1970
How many people work at Vestas?
About 37,000 colleagues worldwide (2025), from more than 88 nationalities.
Source: Vestas Annual Report 2025 announcement · vestas.com DEIB page
Does Vestas offer flexible working?
Some Aarhus job postings list “flexible working arrangements and competitive employment conditions”; Vestas does not publish a single company-wide hybrid policy on its careers pages.
Source: careers.vestas.com, posting 1403837333 (2026)
How do people develop their careers at Vestas?
Through regular “Continuous Performance & Development” check-ins, a 70/20/10 learning model, three career paths and talent programmes. Vestas averaged 64 training hours per employee in 2023.
Source: vestas.com, “Your Development” · DEIB page
Who is the CEO of Vestas?
Henrik Andersen, Group President & CEO since 1 August 2019.
Source: Vestas company news, 2019
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