Annual Report 2011 - Skanska

A day on the job with Cecilia Fasth5:40 a.m. The alarm clock rings – snooze 5:45 a.m. Get up, eat breakfast 6:45 a.m Take the Tube to the City office or the car to the Maple Cross office(my husband takes the children to school) 7:30-7:45 a.m. Arrive at the office. Read e-mails. Read a construction market report on the coming quarter8:30 a.m. Monthly meeting with Project Development employees 10:00 a.m. Customer meeting with potential tenants in a future hospital project12:00 noon English lunch (sandwiches and chips), reading e-mails and making some phone calls 1:00 p.m. Tender review with Green Business team fora major energy- and carbon saving project in London 3:00 p.m. Jump on the Tube for a meeting at the other end of London 3:30 p.m. Meeting with Arupconsultancy About 5:00 p.m. Tube trip home 6:00 p.m. Open the door and be welcomed by children and husband! Checking homework and dinner7:00 p.m. Family dinner. Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes and lingonberries (available at certain shops in London) 8:00 p.m. Start pestering the childrento go to bed 8:30 p.m. Bedtime story for my sons. Mio my Mio by Astrid Lindgren or Harry Potter! 9:00 p.m. The house starts to quiet down. Take care ofprivate e-mails, phone Mom and put out clothes for tomorrow, then to bed. Unfortunately no aerobics today either…Meetings with customers and colleagues fill CeciliaFasth’s day. Customers must both be listened to andpersuaded of the benefits of a new green officebuilding. Together with her colleagues, she makessure that Skanska’s offer is better than those ofcompetitors.Since the summer of 2011 she has been ExecutiveVice President of Skanska’s British construction unit.As a new engineering graduate, Cecilia Fasthjoined Skanska in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the localcommercial property development unit, she workedin practically every position – from management anddivestment of individual properties to the entire bigproperty portfolio, including the development ofnew projects from concept to fully leased building.She helped start up a Swedish nationwide unit forthe development of logistics properties and shoppingmalls. During these years the Fasth family grew, withthe addition of sons Hugo and Melker.With ten years of industry experience, she tookover in 2006 as President of Skanska PropertiesGothenburg.“It was fun and we had a good team. I like peopleand buildings, and creating something good like theGreen Skyscraper in Gårda is gratifying. It’s also veryenjoyable to see employees developing professionally.”In 2009 she was offered the job of runningSkanska’s global Green Refurbishments initiative.”Very exciting, because we assumed a leadingposition international. We have strong arguments.Existing buildings are the largest single contributorto greenhouse gases, and a green renovationfuture-proofs the value of a property.”Today Cecilia is responsible for starting up projectdevelopment in the United Kingdom. Skanska’sconcept of modern, flexible, green office buildings– which is a success in Sweden and on the Europeancontinent – will be offered to tenants and investorsin the British market.“We’ll pursue this at Skanska UK in the form of‘bundled construction,’ which means that we will beresponsible for the entire development process butwill not build up a management portfolio. Insteadwe’ll sell the property, in principle before we startconstruction,” says Cecilia, who likes London andthe international scene, even though her daily familylogistics are a bit more difficult.Skanska Annual Report 2011 Employees 23