Riksbyggen

Riksbyggen (motto: Rum för hela livet) is a Swedish housing company owned by the building unions, housing association and by other national co-operative associations.[3] The company manages approximately 176,000 apartments in 2,650 housing associations.[4] Riksbyggen has 300 offices and activities in more than 400 locations all over the country.[5] Most federations within LO have participations in Riksbyggen, of which Byggnads och Kommunal has the largest unit.

Riksbyggen
IndustryHousing company
Founded1940 (1940)
HeadquartersStockholm,
Sweden
Area served
Sweden
Key people
ServicesHousing, architecture, etc.
Revenue c. 7 bn SEK[1]
Membersc. 1.643
Number of employees
c. 2.700 [2]
Websitehttps://www.riksbyggen.se/

Riksbyggen is also one of Sweden's largest property managers with tenant-owner associations as well as commercial and public property owners as customers.[6] Almost 40% of all energy used in Sweden goes to buildings, which reduces energy use as a priority issue in Riksbyggen's sustainability work.[7]

In 2017, Riksbyggen and LKAB entered into an agreement for 250 new condominiums in Malmfälten for the next ten years.[8]

Developments

A new field of application has been tested, By collecting high resolution images with drones, Riksbyggen and Spotscale were able to develop 3D models of housing associations.[9]

History

Riksbyggen was founded in 1940 by trade unions in the construction sector as a response to the current housing crisis and unemployment among construction workers.[10] Among those founders were Viktor Björkman, Ture Blomqvist, Ed Kärrfeldt, Nils Linde and Anders Nilsson. In 1952, the company Byggfackens Central AB was formed with the task of responding to Riksbyggen's asset management.[11] Riksbyggen had by 1974 built 200,000 dwelling units, 55 percent of them cooperatives; HSB had built somewhat more, and these two big institutions managed about two-thirds of half-million cooperative housing units in the country.[12]

See also

References
  1. "2016 Report" (PDF) (in Swedish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  2. "Om Riksbyggen" (in Swedish). Riksbyggen. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. "About us". Riksbyggen. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  4. "Riksbyggen: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  5. "En hållbar berättelse 2016" (PDF) (in Swedish). Riksbyggen. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  6. "Säljstart för Riksbyggens Brf Skolmästaren i Eskilstuna". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  7. "Earth Hour 2018: Belysning är en utmaning som ger resultat". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  8. "Solar Egg har nominerats till Swedish Arts & Business Awards". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  9. "Riksbyggen börjar 3d-skanna hus med drönare". Ny Teknik (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  10. "Riksbyggen - Uppslagsverk" (in Swedish). NE.se. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  11. "BPA och Riksbyggen". De 15 familjerna (in Swedish). 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  12. Scott, Franklin Daniel (1988). Sweden, the Nation's History. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809314898.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.