Skanska signs on as signatory to America Is All In, reaffirming our commitment to address climate change.

• Skanska ranked #17 on Fortune’s annual “Change the World” list, moving three spots up from our #20 position the previous year.

• LaGuardia Terminal B is awarded Envision Platinum v3 (first airport in the world certified to this standard).
• Skanska Commercial Development’s Bank of America Tower is the first building in the U.S.—and third in the world—to achieve LEED® v4 Platinum Core & Shell certification.

• The group-wide carbon reduction target is announced: net zero emissions by 2045 with a 50 percent reduction by 2030.
• Skanska signs on to the Exponential Roadmap, supporting the development of the 1.5ºC Business Playbook.
• Skanska launches two tools to empower energy-efficient building choices: Insight—which identifies and ranks potential operational carbon—and the EC3 tool—which captures a building’s embodied carbon.

• Skanska becomes a Fitwel Champion, applying the Fitwel standard at scale across our own portfolio of development projects in the design phase.
• Skanska ranked #20 on Fortune’s annual “Change the World” list.
• Skanska becomes a WELL Keystone member.

• Skanska joins the Paris Solutions Campaign.
• Gulf State Park Interpretative Center in Gulf Shores, Alabama achieves rigorous Living Building certification.

• Skanska signs “We Are Still In,” committing to the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.

• In Los Angeles, California, Exposition Light Rail Transit Phase 2 is the first transit project in the U.S. to receive Envision Platinum certification.
• Skanska is recognized for climate reporting, receiving recognition on the Climate A List for the first time.

• Elizabeth River Tunnels is named the winner of the Virginia Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award.

• Stone34, Skanska’s first completed commercial development project in Seattle, achieves LEED Platinum and is the first building to pursue the City of Seattle’s Living Building Challenge Pilot Program.
• Skanska joins the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure as a Charter Member, supporting the development of the Envision rating system.

• Skanska’s Beth Heider is elected Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

• Skanska completes the Bertschi School Science Classroom, one of the first projects in the world to achieve the Living Building Challenge v2.0™ criteria (officially certified in 2013).

• Skanska receives the USGBC Leadership award.
• Skanska publicly discloses group carbon emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project.

• Skanska’s Empire State Building office achieves LEED Platinum for commercial interiors, saving thousands of dollars annually in operating costs. This space remains one of the top energy performers in the building.
• Skanska USA Commercial Development launches. Their first project,10th and G, in Washington D.C. is certified to LEED Gold (v2 Core & Shell) three years later in July 2012.

• Skanska participates in the Living Building Financial Study, led by SERA Architects.

• Skanska completes the first LEED Gold hospital in the U.S.: Providence Newberg Medical Center.

• The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations launches, listing Skanska as its sole construction representative.
• Boston Logan International Airport Terminal A becomes the first LEED certified airport terminal in the world.

• Skanska publishes its first sustainability report.

• Skanska completes their first LEED Silver project in the U.S.: the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Computer Center in Durham, North Carolina.

• All Skanska operations around the world are ISO 14001 certified.
• Skanska becomes a member of the USGBC, the year the LEED® rating system is launched.

• Skanska is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

• Skanska launches its Environmental Policy.

• Skanska publishes its first Environmental Report.