Sustainability Case Studies

The Nordhuset office building, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, was designed according to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) New Construction and the EU GreenBuilding programme.

733 10th and G is a mixed-use development in central Washington DC that was designed to LEED Core and Shell Gold certification and involved the first carbon footprint study of its kind in the US.

Part of the Royal Christiania Hotel in Oslo was redeveloped into a BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) ‘Very Good’ building by improving energy and water efficiency, and reusing the existing structure where possible.

Bassängkajen is a modern and energy efficient office building that was the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Core and Shell Platinum pre-certified building in Malmö.

Öresund Green is Skanska’s own type of single-family passive house and was first constructed as part of the Strandgränd residential project in Bunkeflostrand, southern Sweden.

The Surrey Street Lighting PFI (Private Finance Initiative) involves modernizing the County of Surrey’s entire street lighting system to provide higher quality and more efficient street lighting over a 25-year period.

Skanska uses carbon footprinting tools to benchmark the carbon emissions of highway projects and to help identify low-carbon project options.

The Gårda office building, located in Gothenburg, Sweden, was certified according to the EU GreenBuilding programme and became the first commercial building in Scandinavia to achieve LEED Platinum precertification.

The new science building at the Bertschi School was designed and constructed according to the Living Building Challenge (LBC) guidelines, which promotes sustainability in the built environment, including net-zero energy and water usage, energy efficiency and healthy indoor environments.

The passive house residential project in Kinna, Sweden, was the first passive house in Sweden to be built with prefabricated concrete sections, which led to the economical construction of an ultra-low energy apartment building.