Friday at Nordbygg – social sustainability with our Women’s Networking Event, the Woman of the Year in Construction Award, and Filter your Speech
2024-03-26
How can we secure a future for all within the construction industry? Friday morning at Nordbygg is dedicated to social sustainability. Our Women’s Networking Event is back under the leadership of Amanda Borneke, one of the industry’s sharpest sustainability champions. Amongst other points on the program, we get the opportunity to listen to the Woman of the Year in Construction 2024, we will discuss how the way we talk can be coupled with profitability and security, and a whole lot more.
Friday morning at Nordbygg will be dedicated to social sustainability solutions, and several important aspects of our industry’s future will be in focus.
- Our industry is in great need of talents and therefore has to become attractive to all. Nordbygg offers a wide platform for people within the industry to meet and talk to each other about shaping a better future together, says Nordbygg’s project manager Lina Hann.
The Women’s Networking Event is back
Friday at Nordbygg kicks off with a praised comeback of the very much appreciated Women’s Networking Event, which this year will be moderated by Amanda Borneke, a sustainability profile and circularity expert at Sweco. In her opinion, social sustainability is crucial for positive future city planning.
- We cannot solve our problems by thinking like we did when cities first were built. How are we to plan future cities for all, if not everybody gets to participate in the planning process, she asks.
Nordbygg as a gathering platform
One of Nordbygg’s objectives is to act as a gathering platform, where the construction industry’s different sectoral women’s networks can meet. Melinda Lemke from the Glass work association (Glasbranschföreningen) is one of the former participants who will be back this year with her own female Glass network. She describes participating as really motivating.
- It felt fabulous to walk into a room filled with amazing women who generously shared job hacks and experiences, and to just be one amongst many others, for once. What an energy boost, she says and continues:
- I hope that this networking event will be a recurrent tradition for as long as it is needed for us to stop being a minority. By promoting positive role models, we can hopefully attract new talents who will contribute with important insights and ideas about how to shape our future and bridge the current skill gaps within our industry.
Leadership in focus
This year’s panel at the Women’s Networking Event will be about leadership. How can management take more responsibility for social sustainability at our workplaces? What are some management and leadership trends? What do we want our future workplaces to look like?
- We have chosen leadership as a theme because we want to contribute to raise the knowledge level of those who are able to shape the biggest changes. For a quicker transition, leadership is crucial, explains Lina Hann. At the same time, she insists that the networking event is a highlight for all women within the industry, leaders or not, to meet and inspire each other.
Other events
There are several events within the social sustainability framework on Friday morning that are open to all visitors. The program is still being updated, but here are a few examples of confirmed events.
1) The Woman of the Year in Construction Award 2024.
On Friday morning at 10hrs, Siri Hallenberg Björklund from Byggföretagen will interview the newly designated Woman of the Year in Construction 2024. All of Nordbygg’s visitors are welcome to the Nordbygg Live stage to listen to her vision of a future industry that would be equal for men and women.
The Woman of the Year in Construction is an award that aims to promote female role models within the construction industry, striving for more equality between men and women on the long-term within the industry, which contributes to a healthier and nicer working culture.
It is not the first time that Cramo sponsors our Women’s Networking Event, and this year, they also sponsor Nordbygg by Night, during which the Woman of the Year in Construction will be crowned.
- It is important for us at Cramo to keep being at the forefront of the industry regarding these themes. Equality and inclusion are themes that we strive for daily, and it is obvious to us that everybody should feel welcome to come and work with us on equal terms, says Ola Rantatalo, Marketing & Communication Manager at Cramo.
If you want to attend the festive award ceremony, you can still register for Nordbygg by Night, a completely new meeting format for exhibitors, customers and networks taking place on Thursday evening, April 25th.
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2) Working culture through Filter your Speech
Charlie Klang from Sila snacket - Fiter your Speech - will take on how the way we talk can foster profitability and security on the Nordbygg Live stage at 10.30hrs. Sila snacket is an organization that aims to highlight the importance of speech and its effects on a company’s internal culture. Just as an example, 70 % of all construction managers feel there are discriminating jokes being shared on our workplaces, so what can we do about it?
3) The installation industry and diversity
Not only Charlie Klang draws connections between profitability and diversity. Installation companies strive to increase diversity and equality within their segment of activity and take on the challenge by discussing the topic with industry colleagues at Arena Fastighetsenergi on Friday at 11hrs.
4) Healthy competition – a sustainability issue
The paramount need for promoting healthy competition stirs up added challenges in difficult financial times. Johan Flodin, national coordinator at Byggföretagen, tells us about how they work to keep the industry clean, at 11.30hrs on the Nordbygg Live stage.
The International Programme is being arranged in English and will be open to all visitors on Tuesday April 23, between 1-3 pm on the Nordbygg Live stage.