Our vision Home of the Learning Minds guides us to continuous learning, development and growth”
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Introduction

CATALYSING THE SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION

Rejlers is one of the leading engineering consultancy firms in the Nordic region. Our cutting-edge expertise helps companies, public authorities and other organisations meet the societal challenges of tomorrow. We create value as a catalyst for our customers’ efforts to achieve a sustainable society. Rejlers has around 3,300 experts in technology for energy transition, industry transformation and future-proofing communities through carbon-neutral, climate-adapted and resilient infrastructure and built environment.

Rejlers was founded in 1942 and ever since then, we have built our success on the ability to constantly embrace new knowledge. Today, our primary focus is on supporting the sustainable transformation. Our vision Home of the Learning Minds guides us to continuous learning, development and growth.

Rejlers is a corporate group, with Nordic roots and operations in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the United Arab Emirates. In our assignments, we collaborate across both countries and different technology areas of expertise within the organisation.

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A word from CEO
“Rejlers is big enough for the most exciting assignments, and at the same time small enough for all employees to be seen and get feedback when they make their voice heard.”

NEW REJLERS ACHIEVES RECORD EARNINGS IN TOUGH TIMES

Despite a year filled with geopolitical concerns, inflation, high interest rates, and a weaker economy, Rejlers still had a strong year and continued its renewal process. In 2023, the Group had higher earnings than ever before, we made our largest acquisition to-date and we strengthened our sustainability work, all of which ensures our relevance in a market characterised by the shift to a sustainable society.

Viktor Svensson commenting on 2023
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Sustainability

WE ARE DRIVING THE TRANSFORMATION

With a new sustainability strategy, Rejlers is investing in helping customers integrate sustainability into all of their projects. This strategy entails a higher level of ambition and focus on the energy transition, the industrial transformation and future-proofing of our communities.

WORDS FROM OUR SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR malin Ljung Eiborn
“We should serve as a catalyst in our customers’ transition and shifted our sustainability work into high gear during the year with a new sustainability strategy.”
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Our focus areas

Our sustainability strategy indicates three focus areas where we can have the greatest impact and create the most value for our customers: energy transition, industry transformation and the future-proofing of communities.

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Energy transition

Removing green house gas emissions from the energy sector is absolutely necessary to mitigate and counter climate change. The ongoing energy transition in society means that the entire energy system is undergoing change. In many cases, our customers play key roles in this transition, as they initiate major investments and projects that will contribute to reduced emissions and change how energy is produced and consumed in the future. Rejlers has a unique position as we support both new and established players in the market in creating tomorrow’s clean energy landscape. Together with our customers, we can ensure that the shift to a clean energy system is effective.

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Industry transformation

The entire industrial sector is in rapid transformation and our customers need extensive expertise in the latest technologies. Giant investments are taking place in fossil-free production through electrification, energy storage and emerging hydrogen-based solutions. There is also a great interest in carbon capture and storage. Industry is pursuing the transition to a resource-efficient, circular economy through new business models, process redesign, material changes, enhanced recycling and innovative reuse of industrial waste. Increased focus on careful review and follow-up of the value chain is contributing to redrawing the industry map and it is increasingly common for production to be placed near the end market. Together with our customers, we are a catalyst for the transition to resource efficiency and circular industries.

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Future-proof communities

The transition to a society based on sustainable development is driving change in many areas. New requirements are being set for both transport systems and the built environment. In the coming years, road infrastructure needs to be adapted to a fossil-free vehicle fleet, the capacity for rail-bound transport is being expanded and both new and existing buildings are becoming more energy-efficient and optimised. Energy efficiency, circularity, digitalisation, cyber security, automation and electrification are crucial components as we lay foundations, rebuild, renovate, adapt and secure our cities and society for the future. With our expertise, we support our customers to enable resilient infrastructure and communities.

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Vision & values

Home of the learning minds

Our vision guides us to continuous learning, development and growth. The vision contains three important words: Home, Learning and Minds. These words each have their own significance, which interacts with our values. Our vision and values express who we are and point out our common direction on the way to a sustainable future.

Home –
Our Culture

Rejlers is a welcoming and inspiring home for employees, customers and partners, regardless of whether we meet digitally or in our offices that serves as modern and familiar meetingplaces. Despite our size, we have preserved a warm and welcoming culture where trust, openness and swift decision-making are self-evident. With us, every employee should feel important, appreciated and involved.

Open Source Culture: Through this value, we form a culture of knowledge and a curious approach where we constantly learn new things, both from each other and through our assignments. We willingly share our knowledge and insights, with the conviction that teamwork and cooperation across boundaries create sustainable solutions, innovation and added value.

Learning –
Continuous development

Our employees’ knowledge, experience and continuous learning make up the core of Rejlers’ efforts to develop the sustainable society of tomorrow. This is why we want to be the industry’s most learning company. We create the right conditions for our own and our customers’ learning in our assignments every day. We develop ourselves professionally and share our knowledge both internally and with our customers.

Brilliant Networks: This value means that we build and benefit from our networks to constantly continue to develop, both as individuals and as an organisation. Through the networks, we combine the smaller company’s agility and adaptability with large-scale expertise. We stay up-to-date on the latest technology and can tailor solutions to our customers’ specific needs as they contribute to a sustainable tomorrow.

Minds –
How we act


At Rejlers, we always strive to utilise the combined expertise of both our employees and our customers. This is why we have a strong focus on making the leadership of the company encouraging, trusting and communicative. We attach equal importance to our collegiality, which means that everyone takes personal responsibility for their learning and their continuous development.

Love the challenge: This value helps us meet the challenges of today and tomorrow with enthusiasm and a curious approach that encourages novel thinking and new approaches. We havethe courage to challenge both ourselves and our surroundings in the work of developing innovative solutions that can help transform society and last over time.

H – home
L – learning
M – minds
Our Foundation

Our Foundation

Rejlers strives to have a positive impact by acting as a catalyst for our customers’ sustainable transformation. The foundation for ensuring sustainability while creating long-term value for our customers, is made up of four priorities: Climate action, Business ethics, Inclusive workplace and Healthy people.

3 questions to Elin Berndt, Talent Business Partner at Rejlers Sweden.

Why is it important for Rejlers to be an inclusive workplace?
“Firstly, because we want to contribute to social sustainability. Furthermore, inclusion is crucial if our workforce is to reflect the diversity of society, which our clients expect of us. It is also business critical since plenty of research proves that diversity and inclusion improve teams. Diverse perspectives feed success and for people to reach their full potential they must feel welcome and secure.”

How do you plan to increase diversity at Rejlers?
“We focus a lot on inclusion, which is a prerequisite for attracting and retaining a diverse workforce. To get a comprehensive view of the present situation, we recently concluded an internal survey in the Rejlers group as a whole. Based on the results we will now develop and execute action plans at both group and country levels. These might include trainings, workshops and highlighting inclusion in our pre-onboarding processes.”

What is the focus going forward?
“We want to integrate the issue of inclusion throughout the organisation, learn more and communicate more about it internally. In Sweden, we have become members of the EU network Diversity Charter Sweden, which will be helpful in this process.”

3 questions to Erik Åsly, Department Head at Omega Holtan (part of Rejlers).

How and why do you measure employee engagement at Rejlers?
“We use a digital tool, Winningtemp, for frequently measuring the overall temperature in our company concerning areas like personal development, engagement and leadership. It provides detailed insights when it comes to important factors for the well-being of our people and gives us a good understanding of how people feel and their needs.”

How do you work with your employee engagement tool?
“Every week, our employees get to anonymously answer relevant questions pertaining to their work and well-being via their mobile phone, tablet or computer. Through adding comments, they can also elaborate on a subject or start a dialogue with their closest manager or the People and Culture team. Questions vary every week and are unique to each employee. The anonymity opens up for dealing with sensitive issues such as harassment and exclusion.”

What are the positive outcomes?
The weekly surveys allows for getting both guidance in specific issues and an overall view of the situation within the company. This is particularly important in periods of uncertainty. For example, you can have more frequent information meetings where the agenda is set according to the issues that the tool indicates need to be dealt with.”

3 questions to Heidi Koistinen, HR Business Partner at Rejlers Finland.

Rejlers Finland qualified for the Mental health-friendly workplace® label in 2023, what does this signify?
“The label is awarded to companies actively developing new ways to support mental well-being at the workplace. It is a recognition of our commitment to this area, which is a key element for us at Rejlers due to the demanding expert work that we do.”

How do you work to promote mental well-being?
“In addition to our caring culture, good management, flexibility, opportunities for development and influence for employees, benefits and comprehensive occupational health services, we have launched the ‘I Mind’ development programme to strengthen mental well-being. We provide tools such as wellness-themed learning breaks and videos, and offer individual support through, for example, a 24/7 nurse chat service, sparring to relieve stress and short psychotherapy treatment for work ability problems.”

What is most important for achieving a healthy work environment?
“Appreciating the value of everyone, respecting them and developing good communication skills. When challenges arise, the most important thing is to recognize them quickly and then courageously tackle them at once. Managers have an important role in supporting their own team, but every one of us must also dare to seek support right away if we end up in a stressful and/ or burdensome situation.”

3 questions to Elin Berndt,
Talent Business Partner at Rejlers Sweden.



Why is it important for Rejlers to be an inclusive workplace?
“Firstly, because we want to contribute to social sustainability. Furthermore, inclusion is crucial if our workforce is to reflect the diversity of society, which our clients expect of us. It is also business critical since plenty of research proves that diversity and inclusion improve teams. Diverse perspectives feed success and for people to reach their full potential they must feel welcome and secure.”

How do you plan to increase diversity at Rejlers?
“We focus a lot on inclusion, which is a prerequisite for attracting and retaining a diverse workforce. To get a comprehensive view of the present situation, we recently concluded an internal survey in the Rejlers group as a whole. Based on the results we will now develop and execute action plans at both group and country levels. These might include trainings, workshops and highlighting inclusion in our pre-onboarding processes.”

What is the focus going forward?
“We want to integrate the issue of inclusion throughout the organisation, learn more and communicate more about it internally. In Sweden, we have become members of the EU network Diversity Charter Sweden, which will be helpful in this process.”

3 questions to Erik Åsly,
Department Head at Omega Holtan
(part of Rejlers).


How and why do you measure employee engagement at Rejlers?
“We use a digital tool, Winningtemp, for frequently measuring the overall temperature in our company concerning areas like personal development, engagement and leadership. It provides detailed insights when it comes to important factors for the well-being of our people and gives us a good understanding of how people feel and their needs.”

How do you work with your employee engagement tool?
“Every week, our employees get to anonymously answer relevant questions pertaining to their work and well-being via their mobile phone, tablet or computer. Through adding comments, they can also elaborate on a subject or start a dialogue with their closest manager or the People and Culture team. Questions vary every week and are unique to each employee. The anonymity opens up for dealing with sensitive issues such as harassment and exclusion.”

What are the positive outcomes?
The weekly surveys allows for getting both guidance in specific issues and an overall view of the situation within the company. This is particularly important in periods of uncertainty. For example, you can have more frequent information meetings where the agenda is set according to the issues that the tool indicates need to be dealt with.”

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Strategy
“Led by our vision of Rejlers as the Home of the Learning Minds, we are investing in becoming the industry’s most learning organisation.”

Sustainable growth through learning

Rejlers’ strategy has its sights set on 2025. On the way there, we will transform into a larger, more profitable and more focused company, catalysing our customers’ transformation towards a sustainable society. We will achieve our goals by becoming the industry’s most learning organisation and by constantly providing our customers with fresh perspectives and new knowledge.


Our strategy in short

Growth
Rejlers shall keep on growing and our overall and strategic goal is to double Rejlers' size from year 2018 to 2025, with an average 10 per cent annual growth.

Focus  
We shall focus on energy transition, industry transformation and the future-proofing of communities, with energy and infrastructure as catalysts for future growth.

Future
We shall catalysing our customers transformation towards a sustainable society, increasing the proportion of larger projects, complete solutions and sustainable offers.

Expansion
We shall continuously grow in our core markets in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Targets
– 10% EBITA margin
– 10% average annual growth
– Happy customers and employees
– Climate targets in line with SBTi

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Numbers

the year in numbers

2023 was a strong year for Rejlers. Consolidated annual sales of SEK 4,088 million (3,513) mean a growth of more than 16 per cent, with a strong organic growth of 5 per cent.

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Projects

the year in Projects

Through our projects Rejlers is contributing to the ongoing transition to a sustainable society. We are also taking focused measures to make our own business sustainable. Our technical consultants provide customers with engineering competence and the latest solutions that support the transition to renewable energy and make infrastructure, industry and buildings smarter and more efficient.

Our unique approach to working with energy efficiency for Enköping municipality in Sweden

In many municipalities and regions, the need for maintenance is great when it comes to properties. It could, for example, be about energy efficiency. Energieffektiviseringsföretagen has developed the procurement model EnOff which should facilitate this work. The municipality of Enköping is the first in the country to use EnOff and Rejlers has been commissioned to implement the project. Rejlers Play visited Enköping to find out more about EnOff and how much money can be saved by improving energy efficiency.

Reinforcing Lofoten’s electricity supply

Elmea is the network company within Lofotkraft Group, a regional power company owned by the six municipalities of the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. The region is currently in a green transition, where tourism, fisheries, shipyards and aquaculture are all adopting more sustainable practices. As part of this transition, the electricity supply in Lofoten is being reinforced. In September 2023 Rejlers signed an agreement to support Elmea with technical expertise.

In a project to ensure a reliable power supply fit for the future in the region, Rejlers will contribute with expertise in the design of several 22kV line and cable routes, including ground, sea and overhead power lines as well as substations. Rejlers will lead the project with particular attention given to environmental and safety aspects.

“This is a long-term investment that will benefit both residents and businesses I  Lofoten. Our main challenge is to meet the increasing demand for capacity in an efficient way, and this project is an important part of that work,” comments Pål Martinussen, CEO of Elmea.

Habo Energi invests in energy storage

In the ongoing transition to a sustainable energy system, an increasing part of our power supply comes from solar and wind power. This also increases the need to store energy in order to use it at a later time. When the municipal company Habo Energi turned to Rejlers to carry out an analysis of what route would be suitable to strategically develop the local power network in Habo, Sweden, it resulted in a recommendation to build a battery storage facility.

The conclusion was that this would give Habo Energi both commercial and sustainability-related advantages. The battery storage can help to stabilise the frequency in the Swedish power grid, provide opportunities to store energy when electricity rates are low and then sell it at a higher price level, and let the company cut peak power levels in the local network, thereby avoiding certain investments. Following the analysis, Rejlers also got the assignment to prepare procurement documentation for a battery storage facility with a storage capacity of up to 2 MWh.

“We have a long and well-established cooperation with Rejlers and know that they have good competence and the experience to support us with these issues. They have helped us both to find the right path forward and to take more steps to realising a battery storage facility that meets all our demands, not least when it comes to supporting the power network,” says Patric Jönnervik, Energy Manager at Habo Energi.

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REDUCED EMISSIONS AT HEAT AND POWER PLANT IN FINLAND

Finland’s Ministry of Eof Economic Affairs and Employment has granted approximately EUR 4 million to the investment in a heat storage and heat pump facility at Savon Voima’s combined heat and power plant in Joensuu. Funded by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, the project supports Savon Voima in achieving its climate targets, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 3,460 tonnes per year. As Savon Voima’s long-standing partner, Rejlers is responsible for the basic design of the heat pump plant and for the detailed design of the district heat accumulator.

“The accumulator enables more efficient optimization of the electricity production while also improving the security of district heat supply in Joensuu. With modern heat pumps, even low-temperature heat sources, such as river water used for cooling water, can be utilised in the district heat production. This will improve the energy efficiency of the plant and promote carbon neutrality,” says Jukka Varonen, Project Manager at Savon Voima.

New Skellefteå factory in green battery supply chain

With extensive support from Rejlers’ experts within industrial manufacturing, South Korean chemical company Dongjin has set up a new factory in Skellefteå, Sweden. The site is manufacturing conductive slurry materials for batteries, mainly as part of the supply chain for Northvolt’s big new factory producing green batteries in the same city. In this way, the project is supporting the transformation of the European automotive industry in view of a future society free from carbon dioxide emissions.

Dongjin turned to Rejlers for the establishment of two lines of production, of which one was launched in 2023 and the second one is in its final stages. As complete service provider, Rejlers has been responsible for process and mechanical engineering, piping, electricity and instrument automation. Although this is not a turnkey EPCM project, key parts of this model have been in play, with Rejlers taking charge of commissioning, construction, engineering and management, as well as supporting Dongjin within procurement. Given the European and Swedish standards, strict environmental demands and legal requirements have been key for the execution of the project.

1. EPCM = Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management

A carbon sink day care centre

The Martta Wendelin municipal day care centre in Tuusula, Finland, is a wooden building designed by AFKS Architects to provide facilities for around 200 children. As measured in cubic metres, it is the country’s largest building of its kind built from solid wood. It has been honoured with the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2023 and is an excellent example of how to transition towards a more carbon-neutral built environment by implementing methods and interventions that are already available.

The orientation of the interior takes advantage of the southern park landscape and sunlight, while an outdoor canopy serves as a centre for children’s exterior playing. The structures chosen for the exterior walls, partitions and intermediate floors of the 3,252 square meter building are a single-material CLT massive structure that acts as a carbon sink. Rejlers played a key role in the project by managing the design of its heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

Sustainable property development project in Oslo

The prestigious property development project Mariakvartalet is a part of OSU’s (Oslo S Utvikling) transformation of the former container port in Oslo’s Bjørvika neighbourhood, to an attractive new property and business district. Rejlers is responsible for the electrical engineering services in the project, which includes 245 flats with common roof terraces, as well as space for restaurants, shops, services and cultural outlets at street level.

Based on the BREEAM-Nor standard, the project has high sustainability ambitions, with very strict environmental demands covering all steps of the property development. Rejlers will ensure that the new flats offer a high level of energy efficiency which translates into lower energy costs.
The BREEAM certification also means clean indoor air, absence of toxins, an allergy friendly home environment with plenty of daylight, good outdoor areas and easy access to public transportation, as well as plenty of parking for electric cars and bicycles.

Image credit: OSU (Oslo S Utvikling)

Rejlers Sustainalyzer applied in rock project

When Rejlers’ rock engineering experts in 2023 carried out the annual assignment of inspecting rock cuttings for the Transport Department of the City of Stockholm, Rejlers’ analysis model, called Rejlers Sustianalyzer, was applied to make the assignment more sustainable. For example, thanks to the model, aerial work platforms running on biodiesel were used, Rejlers’ employees car-pooled and one expert commuting from Uppsala used an electric car.

When Rejlers’ Sustainalyzer is applied, instead of just sticking to the usual ways of doing things, the team goes through all the different stages and parts of the assignment in order to find actions that will optimise the work from a sustainability perspective. All the actions are then followed up by Rejlers and included in a report for the customer to see which sustainability aspects were improved on and in what way. For this specific assignment, it was the second year running that the model was applied.

Our unique approach to working with energy efficiency for Enköping municipality in Sweden

In many municipalities and regions, the need for maintenance is great when it comes to properties. It could, for example, be about energy efficiency. Energieffektiviseringsföretagen has developed the procurement model EnOff which should facilitate this work. The municipality of Enköping is the first in the country to use EnOff and Rejlers has been commissioned to implement the project. Rejlers Play visited Enköping to find out more about EnOff and how much money can be saved by improving energy efficiency.

Reinforcing Lofoten’s electricity supply

Elmea is the network company within Lofotkraft Group, a regional power company owned by the six municipalities of the Lofoten archipelago in Norway. The region is currently in a green transition, where tourism, fisheries, shipyards and aquaculture are all adopting more sustainable practices. As part of this transition, the electricity supply in Lofoten is being reinforced. In September 2023 Rejlers signed an agreement to support Elmea with technical expertise.

In a project to ensure a reliable power supply fit for the future in the region, Rejlers will contribute with expertise in the design of several 22kV line and cable routes, including ground, sea and overhead power lines as well as substations. Rejlers will lead the project with particular attention given to environmental and safety aspects.

“This is a long-term investment that will benefit both residents and businesses I  Lofoten. Our main challenge is to meet the increasing demand for capacity in an efficient way, and this project is an important part of that work,” comments Pål Martinussen, CEO of Elmea.

Habo Energi invests in energy storage

In the ongoing transition to a sustainable energy system, an increasing part of our power supply comes from solar and wind power. This also increases the need to store energy in order to use it at a later time. When the municipal company Habo Energi turned to Rejlers to carry out an analysis of what route would be suitable to strategically develop the local power network in Habo, Sweden, it resulted in a recommendation to build a battery storage facility.

The conclusion was that this would give Habo Energi both commercial and sustainability-related advantages. The battery storage can help to stabilise the frequency in the Swedish power grid, provide opportunities to store energy when electricity rates are low and then sell it at a higher price level, and let the company cut peak power levels in the local network, thereby avoiding certain investments. Following the analysis, Rejlers also got the assignment to prepare procurement documentation for a battery storage facility with a storage capacity of up to 2 MWh.

“We have a long and well-established cooperation with Rejlers and know that they have good competence and the experience to support us with these issues. They have helped us both to find the right path forward and to take more steps to realising a battery storage facility that meets all our demands, not least when it comes to supporting the power network,” says Patric Jönnervik, Energy Manager at Habo Energi.

AI generated image, Midjourney

REDUCED EMISSIONS AT HEAT AND POWER PLANT IN FINLAND

Finland’s Ministry of Eof Economic Affairs and Employment has granted approximately EUR 4 million to the investment in a heat storage and heat pump facility at Savon Voima’s combined heat and power plant in Joensuu. Funded by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, the project supports Savon Voima in achieving its climate targets, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 3,460 tonnes per year. As Savon Voima’s long-standing partner, Rejlers is responsible for the basic design of the heat pump plant and for the detailed design of the district heat accumulator.

“The accumulator enables more efficient optimization of the electricity production while also improving the security of district heat supply in Joensuu. With modern heat pumps, even low-temperature heat sources, such as river water used for cooling water, can be utilised in the district heat production. This will improve the energy efficiency of the plant and promote carbon neutrality,” says Jukka Varonen, Project Manager at Savon Voima.

New Skellefteå factory in green battery supply chain

With extensive support from Rejlers’ experts within industrial manufacturing, South Korean chemical company Dongjin has set up a new factory in Skellefteå, Sweden. The site is manufacturing conductive slurry materials for batteries, mainly as part of the supply chain for Northvolt’s big new factory producing green batteries in the same city. In this way, the project is supporting the transformation of the European automotive industry in view of a future society free from carbon dioxide emissions.

Dongjin turned to Rejlers for the establishment of two lines of production, of which one was launched in 2023 and the second one is in its final stages. As complete service provider, Rejlers has been responsible for process and mechanical engineering, piping, electricity and instrument automation. Although this is not a turnkey EPCM project, key parts of this model have been in play, with Rejlers taking charge of commissioning, construction, engineering and management, as well as supporting Dongjin within procurement. Given the European and Swedish standards, strict environmental demands and legal requirements have been key for the execution of the project.

1. EPCM = Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management

A carbon sink day care centre

The Martta Wendelin municipal day care centre in Tuusula, Finland, is a wooden building designed by AFKS Architects to provide facilities for around 200 children. As measured in cubic metres, it is the country’s largest building of its kind built from solid wood. It has been honoured with the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2023 and is an excellent example of how to transition towards a more carbon-neutral built environment by implementing methods and interventions that are already available.

The orientation of the interior takes advantage of the southern park landscape and sunlight, while an outdoor canopy serves as a centre for children’s exterior playing. The structures chosen for the exterior walls, partitions and intermediate floors of the 3,252 square meter building are a single-material CLT massive structure that acts as a carbon sink. Rejlers played a key role in the project by managing the design of its heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

Sustainable property development project in Oslo

The prestigious property development project Mariakvartalet is a part of OSU’s (Oslo S Utvikling) transformation of the former container port in Oslo’s Bjørvika neighbourhood, to an attractive new property and business district. Rejlers is responsible for the electrical engineering services in the project, which includes 245 flats with common roof terraces, as well as space for restaurants, shops, services and cultural outlets at street level.

Based on the BREEAM-Nor standard, the project has high sustainability ambitions, with very strict environmental demands covering all steps of the property development. Rejlers will ensure that the new flats offer a high level of energy efficiency which translates into lower energy costs.
The BREEAM certification also means clean indoor air, absence of toxins, an allergy friendly home environment with plenty of daylight, good outdoor areas and easy access to public transportation, as well as plenty of parking for electric cars and bicycles.

Image credit: OSU (Oslo S Utvikling)

Rejlers Sustainalyzer applied in rock project

When Rejlers’ rock engineering experts in 2023 carried out the annual assignment of inspecting rock cuttings for the Transport Department of the City of Stockholm, Rejlers’ analysis model, called Rejlers Sustianalyzer, was applied to make the assignment more sustainable. For example, thanks to the model, aerial work platforms running on biodiesel were used, Rejlers’ employees car-pooled and one expert commuting from Uppsala used an electric car.

When Rejlers’ Sustainalyzer is applied, instead of just sticking to the usual ways of doing things, the team goes through all the different stages and parts of the assignment in order to find actions that will optimise the work from a sustainability perspective. All the actions are then followed up by Rejlers and included in a report for the customer to see which sustainability aspects were improved on and in what way. For this specific assignment, it was the second year running that the model was applied.

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