Skanska launches LEED - a leading global environmental system - in Nordic region

Skanska launches LEED - a leading global environmental system - in Nordic region

Skanska is incorporating the international environmental certification system
LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in its Nordic building
construction operations. Consequently, Skanska becomes the first construction
company in the Nordic region to offer customers environmental certification in
accordance with LEED for construction projects and for commercial development
projects. All Skanska's own commercial development projects and new premises for
its own operations will also be certified in accordance with LEED.

LEED is one of the world's leading systems for environmental certification of
buildings. Resource utilization, the building's location, design and indoor
climate as well as energy and waste minimization are a few of the criteria on
which LEED classification is based. 

Certification is carried out and verified by an independent third party through
the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). 

Starting today, about 100 Nordic Skanska employees will be trained to lead the
LEED design and certification process and to serve as advisors to Skanska's
customers. The training will be carried out with the aid of some of Skanska's
approximately 350 LEED Accredited Professionals in the US operations.
Accreditation of the training will be performed through the Green Building
Certification Institute, an independent organization charged with administrating
and monitoring this process.

The LEED system, combined with LEED training, provides Skanska with a tool for
total evaluation of the building's environmental impact based on internationally
recognized and objective methods.

Skanska has completed approximately 70 LEED certified projects in the US and the
first project in the Czech Republic. Currently, the first LEED projects in
Finland and Sweden are being developed.

Seven Skanska projects have achieved an EU GreenBuilding rating, which means at
least 25-percent lower energy use than what is prescribed in national standards.
In addition to energy, LEED covers wider environmental impact. LEED
certification and the EU GreenBuilding rating can be applied in parallel.

“The demand for environmentally rated and energy-efficient buildings is
increasing. This trend will be accentuated further when the market rebounds.
Then we will be ready,” says Johan Karlström, President and CEO of Skanska. “In
the US, many large cities and states already require LEED certification for new
buildings. Today, about 40 percent of the US population lives in these areas and
we have carried out several LEED certified projects there.

“We have a solid foundation on which to build further. The entire Group has been
environmentally certified in accordance with ISO 14001 since 2002. And we have
demonstrated that we can meet high environmental standards, in the Nordic region
as well as in the US and Europe. Through adopting the same rating system, we
will be positioned to share knowledge and raise our performance worldwide.”


For further information please contact:

Peter Gimbe, Press Officer, Skanska AB, tel +46 8 753 88 38
Direct line for media: +46 8 753 88 99
Hanne Rønneberg, Senior Vice President Green, Skanska AB, 
tel+46 8 753 88 62

For more information about LEED, read the appendix.


This and previous releases can also be found at www.skanska.com

Skanska AB may be required to disclose the information provided herein pursuant
to the Securities Markets Act.

Skanska is one of the world's leading project development and construction
groups with expertise in construction, development of commercial and residential
projects and public-private partnerships. The Group currently has 56,000
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 SEK 144 billion.