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I've been on a Skanska site years ago in London where if you turned up as a chippy and you had just a normal CSCS card, you were only allowed to touch a broom.

You couldn't get your tools out unless you had, I think it was, no, the basic one, the CSCS was green and you needed a skills card

because

you couldn't touch a tool.

And there was no, like the geese are running it.

He was a United Union geezer who'd done the Skanska briefings, like the inductions in the morning, and he was in charge of making sure everything was compliant.

But he was paid by United Union.

So we've costed over 400 million pounds of organic growth opportunities.

So if I give you a few key highlights, in August, we signed a construction contract with Skanska to build the first phase of Prague Gateway.

So that's the core of the shell and the first module of about 400 megawatts of IT power.

That's out of a project with access to up to 26 megawatts of power.

So let's hear what Anders has been picking up as the key trends here at Climate Week.

And as we continue with our interviews here from New York Climate Week, from Skanska, USA's headquarters at the Empire State Building, I'm very pleased to welcome Anders Danielsson, President and CEO of Skanska Group, to the podcast for the first time.

Anders, great to have you on Shaping Sustainable Places.

Thank you.

We need to invest in resilience when it comes to buildings, infrastructure, but also the energy system.

So that's clear to me that there is a lack of resilience in many of those facilities.

As you've been talking with customers, what are they looking for in a business partner like Skanska?

They definitely see that we are a forerunner when it comes to sustainability and a sustainable solution, resilient solution.

This is a work placement where the learners actually go in with a big company or a small company and they are looking and working at a targeted area.

So for an example, we've got a learner currently who's in Skanska in the city and they're working on a construction site, but they're working in particular with the lighting team and the lighting team are taking them through and showing them how the whole system.

So they're actually planning works and writing health and safety documentation for the team as well.

And this is all of our T-level learners would actually be involved in this sort of placement.

as you say, if you don't address it, it can actually lead to more disruption, losing your best people, people burning out, mental health, all those types of things.

I used to, when I worked for the Nichols Group, I was assigned to High Speed 2 and I worked with Coste and Skanska.

And Skanska had a really good campaign.

And I think it's still a thing, but it was sort of being promoted at the time.

And it was simply not cool.