About
We are one of the worlds leading contractors with expertise in construction, commercial premises, housing and public-private partnerships (PPP).
Our products and services in Norway covers:
• infrastructure
• private homes
• public and private premises
• surveying
• technical contracts
• prefabricated houses
•steel products
• public-private-partnerships (PPP)
• project development.
The sales for our Norwegian operations in 2007 were 11 billion NOK and the company employed about 4700 people.
Globally, the Skanska Group currently has 60,000 employees in selected home markets in Europe, in the US and Latin America. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Skanska's sales in 2007 totaled about 139 billion SEK.
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Strategy
The Arendal office of Skanska follows the overall strategy put forward by Skanska cetrally. In adition we have made our own accounts of our CO2 emmisons of our office and will compensate by buying cenrtified emmisions reduction certificates. Following the GHGprotocol we are first aiming at scope 2, but will move towards scope 3 as we gain experience and knowledge.
The built environment accounts for approximately 40% of all energy consumption. About 1% of this is consumed during construction, 84% accounted for during the lifetime use and 15% is embedded in construction materials. Skanska sees its ability to provide enhanced energy efficiency as an important business opportunity.
We are developing a number of plans to take this forward with like-minded clients through product adaptation strategies. For example, energy consumption in Skanska Commercial Development’s newly developed offices is 30- 40% less than in existing facilities. In addition, within Skanska we have embarked on a series of mitigation measures focused on our vehicles, heavy equipment and office facilities. These adaptation and mitigation measures are embedded more specifically in our 2008-2010 Business Plan.
Skanska's approach to addressing Energy & Climate opportunities and challenges is to focus on the things we can directly control and the things we can directly influence. During the next 3-year Business Plan we will focus on mitigating our own impacts and adapting our products and services to make them more climate benign. Specifically we will focus on
1) Our People,
2) Our Assets and
3) Like-minded Clients including our four Development Business Units - Skanska RDN, CDN, CDE and ID.
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