Focus area: The industry’s best workplace
1. Safe working environment
Fasadgruppen’s operations are exposed to risks relating to occupational health and safety. The work can be physically demanding and is often carried out on scaffolding and at great height. The Group therefore works for a safe and healthy working environment with clear safety requirements at construction sites.
Fasadgruppen has an occupational health and safety group with representatives from different parts of the Group that works to ensure the best working environment for Fasadgruppen craftspeople and subcontractors. To increase control in relation to subcontractors, special due diligence is performed on contractors engaged by Fasadgruppen’s subsidiaries, as well as unannounced site inspections.
Injuries and accidents are prevented by each company performing an annual occupational health and safety survey to pinpoint potential occupational health and safety risks and formulate a plan to prevent them. This must be documented by the occupational health and safety group and reported to and followed up by Group Management. All supervisors are trained in safe working methods and procedures, which is documented in a competency matrix that is reported annually to management and the Board.
2. Inclusion and diversity
Fasadgruppen operates in a sector that has historically been heavily male-dominated. The Group therefore actively works to increase diversity. The biggest opportunity is to increase the number of women in white collar positions, but the Group also strives to attract more women to the craftwork profession over time. A key aspect here is to offer inclusive workplaces where no form of discrimination or harassment is acceptable. Fasadgruppen takes a zero tolerance approach to discrimination in recruitment, decisions on remuneration, working hours, holidays, work duties, parental leave, performance appraisals, development and health and wellness benefits.
3. Skills supply and development
One of Fasadgruppen’s main sustainability risks is a lack of competent craftwork personnel, especially given the fact that demand for sustainable façade improvements is expected to increase for a long time to come. In order to strengthen the attraction of the craftwork profession in the long term, Fasadgruppen participates in secondary school fairs and collaborates with vocational training courses, as well as offering apprenticeship programmes.
Internally, the Group wants to make use of the extensive expertise of our employees through knowledge transfer and leadership training. Many project managers have a background as a craftsperson, which provides them with good conditions to be successful in their role. Through annual employee surveys, areas of development are identified in order to continuously become a better employer.
Fasadgruppen was established in 2016 through the merger of two façade companies, both of which had extensive experience from the industry and with good profitability. The idea was that the companies would continue to operate independently with continued local knowledge, commitment and competence - but at the same time be able to keep purchase prices low and offer the customer a safe pair of hands in a larger context.
History
Fasadgruppen’s strategy is based on acquiring and developing local market leaders, benefiting from cooperation and economies of scale within the Group and being able to provide a sustainable and secure offering to customers.
Strategy
Fasadgruppen’s business model is based on a decentralised structure that combines the entrepreneurial endeavour, proximity to customers and limited overheads of the local company with shared oppportunities to achieve economies of scale and offer comprehensive solutions to customers.
Business model
Fasadgruppen’s subsidiaries are active on the building envelope services market in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Around 80 percent of the business is focused on renovating and upgrading properties, with the remainder on new construction.
Market
As the leading group within façade work in the Nordic countries, Fasadgruppen supports and promotes sustainable development in our daily work.
Sustainability