During the Eurobuild Awards 2011 Gala, held at the Warsaw Hilton hotel, Skanska received two awards. The Green Developer Award CEE went to Skanska Property Poland, whereas Skanska S.A. was named the Construction Company of the Year.

The Eurobuild Awards Gala gathers experts and leading real estate companies in Central and Eastern Europe. This year’s ceremony was attended by a record number of 700 guests. The award for Skanska Property Poland was received by Katarzyna Unold, the company’s Green Business Manager, while Skanska S.A. was represented by its President, Krzysztof Andrulewicz. „The award received in the Eurobuild Awards 2011 competition is a special distinction for us. I am very proud that the enormous amount of work and the commitment of our entire team have been appreciated. It will definitely further motivate us to establish even more ambitious goals, being the company setting trends in green office development on the Polish market,” Katarzyna Unold, Green Business Manager at Skanska Property Poland.

Skanska was honoured for its contribution to the promotion of the principles of sustainable development in the Polish construction sector, as well as unconventional approach to energy efficient and environment friendly technological solutions. In the past 12 months, Skanska started works on three green office projects: Green Corner in Warsaw, Green Towers in Wrocław and Green Horizon in Łódź. The projects have already been LEED precertified. Soon the company is going to launch another two investments, where green solutions, pioneer on the Polish market, will be applied. The innovative technologies will minimise the impact of the buildings on natural environment and at the same time will significantly reduce their operating costs. Year 2011 was very successful for Skanska as the company was awarded several times. In March, Skanska Property Poland won the CEEQA Green Initiative Award 2010, whereas Skanska S.A. was named CEEQA Construction Company of the Year 2010. In the 10th edition of the CIJ Awards Poland 2011 competition Skanska Property Poland received two more awards. The first was given to Nicklas Lindberg, President of Skanska Commercial Development Europe (CDE), in the category Industry Leadership (Office), and the other was the ESSA Award (Environmentally, Socially and Sustainable Award), granted for the first time. This time the developer was recognised for its LEED CI (Commercial Interiors) certified office, located in the Deloitte House building. Additionally, in the CEE Green Building Awards competition, organised by Europaproperty.com, three green office projects of Skanska were awarded in the category LEED Pre-certificate for Shell & Core: Green Corner in Warsaw (LEED Platinum), Green Horizon in Łódź (LEED Gold) and Green Towers in Wrocław (LEED Platinum).

For further information, please contact:
Jakub Zagórski Skanska Property Poland Mobile: +48 797 229 117 E-mail: jakub.zagorski@skanska.pl
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, Kamil Zubrzycki Questia sp. z o.o. sp.k. Phone: +48 22 623 07 00
E-mail: akwiatkowska@questiapr.pl, kzubrzycki@questiapr.pl  

For more information on the company and its projects please visit www.skanska.pl