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| Skanska to develop “Green Building” in Malmö Swedish construction group Skanska is continuing with development of the Universitetsholmen in central Malmö. The office building, designated "Bassängkajen, " will be built in seven stories and comprise a total of 19,000 square meters in two stages. Skanska's investment in the first stage involving 10,000 square meters amounts to about SEK 240 M and is scheduled to be completed in autumn 2010. The new property is expected to be one of the first in Malmö to fulfill the requirements for the EU GreenBuilding label. This means that the building's energy consumption will be at least 25 percent lower than what is specified in the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's standard for newly constructed buildings. An application for the GreenBuilding label will be submitted in the autumn. In January this year, Skanska's office building Hagaporten III in Solna, Stockholm, became the first in Sweden to be certified in accordance with the most recent GreenBuilding standard. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |