Peab Housing Press For customers For suppliers plug Products New home New premises sustainability Work & develop About Peab YOU ARE HERE: ... > SUSTAINABILITY > CURIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE? Curious about the future? Today we are shaping the society we and our children and grandchildren will live in in 20, 50 or maybe 100 years. Therefore, we who work with community building must ask ourselves the question today which society we want tomorrow. By taking an active part in research and testing innovations in real life, we can learn lessons that help us create good living environments for the future. Sustainable building materials, life cycle analyzes and a decent work environment for those who build are a matter of course, but more is needed to create sustainable societies. We need to start asking new questions and challenging ourselves and others to find completely new solutions. Creating these good living environments requires collaboration and a willingness to take part in innovations. - A balance between the safe, secure on the one hand and innovation and creativity on the other, we believe is the way there, says Maria Hernroth who is head of sustainability at Peab. Among current and innovative projects that aim at how we will live and work in the future, HSB Living Lab on Chalmers campus in Gothenburg is one of the most interesting. There is a living laboratory where people - students and researchers - live and interact to create the housing of the future. A unique environment where you can do research in a way that has never happened before, including around mobility and production processes. One thing we can already see is that more and more people will live in ever larger and thus denser cities. The space of the cars will be reduced and therefore a new view of housing and transport is required. In Malmö, the tenants recently moved into Sweden's first bicycle house. A house completely adapted for a life with a bicycle. Extra wide doors and a lift with doors at both ends give the residents the opportunity to cycle all the way into the apartment. These are just a few examples of how the public construction sector and all of us who are active there in various ways can create innovations that meet future needs. By encouraging each other to innovate and new solutions - both large and small - we can all contribute. Peab keeps the door open for increased collaboration and sustainable business where we make demands on each other not only to take responsibility for how we build but also for the people in society. Read more about sustainable initiatives within the Peab Group below ECO-Asphalt Peab Asphalt invests in the production of asphalt that is produced from carbon-neutral biofuel. The fossil fuel oil is replaced by a bio-oil that is extracted from residual products from the food industry. Vår nya ECO-Asfalt skall stå för 50 procent av produktionen av asfaltmassa redan vid årsskiftet 2016/2017 vilket innebär en minskning av koldioxidutsläppen med 15.000 ton. Enbart denna åtgärd motsvarar utsläppen från 10.000 bilar med en genomsnittlig årlig körsträcka på 1.500 mil. Läs mer om ECO-Asfalt Recycling Avfallshantering och återvinning I en bransch som står för 30 procent av landets totala engergiförbrukning behöver alla ta ansvar för att minska sin energiförbrukning Läs mer >> Miljötjänster som förvandlar avfall till resurser Våra experter hjälper byggföretag, industrier och kommuner att omvandla avfall till resurser. Läs mer >> Socialt engagemang Tillsammans med Robert Dicksons stiftelse bygger Peab 126 nya lägenheter på Kryddhyllan i Gårdsten. I samband med detta kommer Peab att anställa arbetslösa ungdomar från närområdet och erbjuda dessa en bygglärlingsplats. Idén väcktes för några månader sedan mellan Robert Dicksons stiftelse och Peab och nu förverkligas den. Läs mer om ungdomarna som bygger i Gårdsten Peabs syn på en hållbar verksamhet Ur Peabs års- och hållbarhetsredovisning 2016: Som samhällsbyggare och stor arbetsgivare påverkar Peabs verksamhet samhället och människorna som lever och arbetar där, på både kort och lång sikt. Vi lägger därför stor vikt vid att det vi planerar och genomför ska vara hållbart. En god förståelse för våra intressenters krav och behov bidrar till ökade möjligheter att göra rätt prioriteringar i vårt hållbarhetsarbete. To Peab's annual and sustainability report Share: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn More articles Below you will find the remaining articles in the newsletter "News from Peab" Responsible business - The business we do must be long-term sustainable and create added value in society, explains Maria Hernroth, Peab's head of sustainability. People, the environment and business must be balanced in order to form a sustainable offer. That is what we mean by responsible business. Customer requirements drive development - Sustainability from all perspectives is entering more and more areas in our business, says Peter Svensson, head of Peab housing development in Sweden. If we want smart and sustainable cities, it is required that we also build smart and sustainable and now the development is progressing fast. Developing for both parties A few years ago, the state-owned companies, including the mining company LKAB, received a clear directive from their owners. They would be role models for sustainability work in all Swedish companies and contribute to driving that development. New view of residual products Construction activities generate large amounts of residual products. Reducing this is a big and important challenge. Residential area with a strong environmental profile The Aspö area in Skövde boasted as many as nine different bat species. Therefore, it was not completely unnatural to mark the start of construction of Aspö Eko-logi by setting up a bat nest instead of with a traditional first sod in April 2015. More information (external links) Underground bicycle parking in Japan The first tenants have moved into the OhBoy bicycle shed Cykelhuset OhBoy Sweden's first bicycle house is being built in Västra Hamnen in Malmö HSB Living Lab Peab - The Nordic Community Builder Peab is one of the Nordic region's leading construction companies with approximately 15,000 employees and a turnover of SEK 49 billion. The Group has strategically located offices in Sweden, Norway and Finland. The head office is located in Förslöv on the Bjäre Peninsula in Skåne. The share is listed on NASDAQ Stockholm. 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