About Discebo.

Discebo means »I want to learn« in Latin — and that's the core of it: a place where apprentices become skilled in their trade, and where journeymen, masters and companies pass the craft on. One login gives access to the entire workshop, no matter which trade you work in.

Learning for every trade

Each trade has its own library: articles for reading in depth, calculators and templates for concrete sizing and pattern development, technique guides step by step, assortment for looking up tools and materials, quizzes for practising the subject matter, live 3D figures on the calculators, and a AI assistant for questions that don't fit into a formula.

Discebo covers 120 trades, educations and courses distributed across 36 schools — from carpenters, electricians and technical insulators to gastronomists, hairdressers and animal caretakers — and they are all equal: each profession has its own study material, calculators, inventory and quizzes. All the breadth can be discovered together on the cross-disciplinary hubs (calculators, articles, templates, quiz, assortment) and under Education programmes.

Don't you yet know which way you should go? The light is a guide that, based on your interests, points you toward the programmes that suit you — across all trades.

The entire platform can be read in Danish + 11 other languages, has a built-in dyslexia-friendly reading mode (Aa button) and can be installed as an app on your phone.

Community & work

On top of the trades lies one common layer: a feed for sharing projects and questions, messages and forum, teams and shift schedule for managing the crew, job posting, a marketplace for used tools and materials, and a professional profile with your qualifications. The craft is tied together across trades.

For schools and students there is a real PLACEHOLDER_25: classes and groups, schedule, assignments, grades, absences and a personal Student workspace.. For companies a work-workspace with projects, photo markup and task management, a company hub with a public customer page, a shared file drive and an onlineCV you control the visibility of.

Who is behind

Discebo was created, developed and is run by Casper Møller Madsen — idea, design, content and code. You can learn more about me and my other projects at camsilo.dk. The platform is independent: it is not owned by or affiliated with schools, manufacturers or organisations, and none of the mentioned manufacturers or sources pay to be included.

Sources & credits

Discebo covers many trades, and each trade is built on published technical literature, Danish standards, legislation and industry guidelines. The content has been rephrased and structured for the web format — quotations and tables are used for educational purposes with source attribution. If you, as a rights holder, feel something should be adjusted, write to me and I'll correct it right away.

They are not preserved

Standards & legislation per trade

• Electrician — DS/HD 60364 series (Handbook for Authorised Electricians, 10th edition 2025); Installation Regulation (BEK 1082/2016); Electrical Safety Act; Danish Safety Authority / Enterprise and Construction Authority.
• VVS — DS 439:2024 (water standard); DS 469 (heating systems); authorisation scheme; Statens Serum Institut / Environmental Protection Agency (legionella).
• Carpenter — Eurocode 5 (DS/EN 1995-1-1 and fire 1995-1-2); BR18 (§ 257 component minimum requirements and § 259 ff. energy frame); EN ISO 6946.
• Bricklayer — Eurocode 6 (DS/EN 1996-1-1 + Danish national annex); BR18 chap. 15; Aalborg Portland (cement/mortar).
• Scaffolding — DS/EN 12811-1 (work permits); Danish Labour Authority regulations and AT guidance.
• Cleaning — DS/INSTA 800 (cleaning quality measurement); supplier safety data sheets.
• Gardener — Standards for Landscape Gardening Work (NfA); plant quality standards.
• Truck — Danish Labour Authority certification requirements; EN 1726 / ISO 3691 (forklift); BFA Transport, Service, Turisme & Jord til Bord.
• Truck & bus — Dimension Regulation (BEK 1447/2025); driving and rest time (Regulation (EC) 561/2006); tachograph (Regulation (EU) 165/2014); load securing (DS/EN 12195); driver training/code 95 (Directive (EU) 2022/2561); Danish Road Authority.

The standards (DS/EN) are owned by Danish Standard and can be purchased via ds.dk; regulations and laws are freely available at retsinformation.dk. Excerpts are used for educational purposes with source attribution.

The trades' study material

De 120 trades, educations and courses each build on their own professional foundation: the official education decrees and competency goals, UddannelsesGuiden (ug.dk) and STIL (Danish Agency for Digitisation and Learning), trade associations and vocational schools (e.g. AMU centres and Hansenberg), and publicly available material from manufacturers and suppliers. Study material, calculators and product range for each programme are structured and reformatted for web with source attribution on each page. If you are a rights holder and believe something should be adjusted, please write — I will correct it immediately.

Teaching material (insulation)

• Preben Kristensen — teaches at AMU Syd Kolding. Main source for the practical sections on mineral wool, elastomeric foam, metal jacketing, pillow sewing and fire insulation. The compendiums were prepared for Undervisningsministeriet (2011–2025).
• BAI — the continuing-education committee for construction/civil engineering and industry: Technical Insulation — Trade calculation (Ministry of Education, October 2024). The geometry formulas in all templates (bends, reductions, tee pieces, metal jacketing, transitions) are taken from here.
• AMU SYD's teaching playlist on YouTube — video constructions embedded on the template pages (fish, bends, reductions, tee pieces, bypass, transitions, vessel, basic geometry). All rights to the videos belong to AMU SYD and their instructors; they are embedded with credit, and each page links to the original on YouTube.

Standards & legislation

Excerpts and tables from the Danish standards are used with source attribution. The standards are owned by Danish Standards and can be purchased via ds.dk.

• DS 452:2013 — Thermal insulation of technical installations
• DS 428:2019 — Fire-safety measures for ventilation systems
• DS 418 — Calculation of buildings' heat loss
• BR18 — The Building Regulations, §§ 270 and 358 (bygningsreglementet.dk)
• EN ISO 12241 — Calculation of heat flow from insulated installations
• EN ISO 8497 — Measurement of heat transmission through pipe insulation
• EN 14303 — Product standard for mineral wool for technical insulation
• EN 13501-1 — Fire classification of construction products
• EN 1366-1 — Fire testing of ventilation ducts
• EN 253 / EN 14419 / EN 13941 — District heating pipes (outside DS 452)

Handbooks & reference works

• Isover HVAC Håndbog, 9th edition (December 2022) — Saint-Gobain Isover. Used as the primary reference for HVAC class lookup (pp. 24–25), dimension tables (pp. 15–45) and fastening guidance. The HVAC class calculator is a digital transposition of the table, not a reproduction of the original.

Manufacturers & brands

Product and company names are trademarks belonging to their respective owners. They are mentioned on the site for educational and documentation purposes — not as a recommendation, and with no commercial relation.

• Rockwool®, Conlit®, ProRox® — Rockwool A/S
• Isover®, CLIMPIPE®, CLIMCOVER®, U Protect® — Saint-Gobain Isover
• Knauf Insulation®, ECOSE® — Knauf Insulation
• Paroc®, Calculus® — Owens Corning
• Armaflex®, Tubolit® — Armacell
• Foamglas® — Owens Corning
• IsoDim®, Rockassist® — the suppliers' sizing programs (mentioned as a reference)

Everything is guiding – but fact-checked

All content on Discebo is advisory. Calculators, templates, articles, and guides provide indicative results – not final sizing, design, or advice. For specific tasks, sizing, material selection, and safety must always be validated against current standards, legislation, and project-specific requirements for the individual trade.

At the same time the content is fact-checked: figures formulas and class designations are checked against the published sources mentioned above — standards regulations industry guidelines and manufacturers' own data sheets — and the source is cited directly on each calculator and article. If you find an error anyway please write — it will be corrected.

Contact about rights

If you are the rights holder of material used on the site and want an adjustment — removal, different crediting or a direct link — contact me and I will correct it as soon as possible.