Riksbyggen (motto: Rum för hela livet) is a Swedish housing company owned by the building unions, housing association and by other national co-operative associations. The company manages approximately 176,000 apartments in 2,650 housing associations. Riksbyggen has 300 offices and activities in more than 400 locations all over the country. Most federations within Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) have participations in Riksbyggen, of which Byggnads och Kommunal has the largest unit.
7-553: Riksbyggen is also one of Sweden's largest property managers with tenant-owner associations as well as commercial and public property owners as customers. Almost 40% of all energy used in Sweden goes to buildings, which reduces energy use as a priority issue in Riksbyggen's sustainability work. In 2017, Riksbyggen and LKAB entered into an agreement for 250 new condominiums in Malmfälten for
14-419: Is a state-owned Swedish mining company. The company mines iron ore at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established in 1890, and has been 100% state-owned since the 1950s. The iron ore is processed to pellets and sinter fines , which are transported by Iore trains ( Malmbanan ) to the harbours at Narvik and Luleå and to the steel mill at Luleå ( SSAB ). Their production
21-450: Is partially processed on site, and is transported by freight train on Malmbanan to either Narvik or Luleå depending on final destination. LKAB has been ranked as among the 14th best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights and resource extraction in the Arctic. In 2021, LKAB was ranked no. 23 out of 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of
28-588: Is sold throughout much of the world, with the principal markets being European steel mills, as well as North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. LKAB's mines supply at least 80% of Europe's iron ore. As of 2021 , LKAB has over 4,500 employees in 12 countries. There are iron ore mines, processing plants and ore harbors in northern Sweden and Norway, and a sales office in Germany. LKAB has subsidiaries for industrial minerals with processing plants in Sweden, Finland,
35-699: The UK, the Netherlands, Turkey and China. Additional subsidiaries are in Germany, the US and Hong Kong as well as representative offices in Slovakia, Greece, Spain and South Africa. LKAB's chief assets are among the magnetite orefields of northern Sweden. Its corporate headquarters are in Luleå and the main production sites are in Kiruna ( Kiruna Mine ) and Malmberget , close to Gällivare . The ore
42-404: The company Byggfackens Central AB was formed with the task of responding to Riksbyggen's asset management. Riksbyggen had by 1974 built 200,000 dwelling units, 55 percent of them cooperatives; HSB had built somewhat more, and these two big institutions managed about two-thirds of half-million cooperative housing units in the country. LKAB Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag ( LKAB )
49-477: The next ten years. A new field of application has been tested, By collecting high resolution images with drones, Riksbyggen and Spotscale were able to develop 3D models of housing associations. Riksbyggen was founded in 1940, by trade unions in the construction sector as a response to the current housing crisis and unemployment among construction workers. Among those founders were Viktor Björkman, Ture Blomqvist, Ed Kärrfeldt, Nils Linde and Anders Nilsson. In 1952,
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