We have launched a tech spin out

Founded by Mariusz Hermansdorfer, our former Head of Computational Design and Industrial PhD fellow, Nflection is an independent company backed by Henning Larsen alongside MUDP – the Environmental Technology Development and Demonstration Programme under the Danish Ministry of the Environment, the Ramboll Foundation and Google for Startups. A new digital tool, jifto, brings real-time environmental analysis directly into the hands of design teams from the very first sketch.

jifto draws on more than twelve years of practice in climate-responsive design, bringing site context, climate data, physics, and analysis directly to users. The platform currently includes tools for sunlight, shadows, wind, microclimate, stormwater, earthworks and daylight analysis — each running in real time as a design develops. Every study can also be tested against both today's climate and projected conditions up to 2075, so teams can design for the world a building will inhabit, not the one it was permitted in.

The platform also includes a biodiversity module currently in beta, extending its ability to support nature-based design solutions from the earliest stages of a project.

“The talent and the intent are never the problem," says Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Founder, Nflection. "What I kept seeing was that the expertise to evaluate comfort couldn’t scale to match the volume of decisions being made across the industry. jifto is how we aim to change that.”

Designing comfortable spaces where wind is sheltered, sun arrives as it is needed, and people choose to linger is integral to the design of public spaces, but there is a gap in the access to specialist knowledge that this requires. Environmental consultants work on turnaround times of days or weeks, and in-house specialists are stretched thin. The questions that determine a place’s atmospheric impact are often answered too late in the process to meaningfully influence the design.

Designing with microclimate

We’re exploring the topic further in a course hosted by Mariusz and Eliana Nigro, Head of Digital Adoption. Join us for ‘Designing with microclimate,’ a full-day course on thermal comfort as a design objective. You can read more about the contents of the course in the course description, downloadable below.

The course is open for individual sign up and will be held at Ramboll Head Office in Copenhagen on June 19, 2026. Contact hlainnovation@henninglarsen.com to register for the course.