Social sustainability

Social sustainability is about how we can build a society based on equality, with a focus on human needs and well-being.

Hemsö works with social sustainability both internally within the company and externally, with our customers. Within our organisation, social sustainability is about ensuring that our employees are healthy, motivated and happy, and that everyone can achieve a good work-life balance. Externally, it refers to how our activities affect all of the people who spend time or live in our buildings. 

We work to ensure that our buildings and outdoor environments are safe, healthy and stimulating. As a property owner, our aim is to ensure that no accidents occur, to contribute to more socially sustainable environments and to improve conditions for our tenants’ operations, all of which are pillars of social sustainability.

Bridges between generations

We develop properties for different operations in the same building. By having preschools and primary schools together with nursing homes, natural meeting places are built between generations.

An example is the combined primary school and nursing home in Gothenburg. Our property will have meeting places and activities where the residents of the nursing home and the students at the school can meet and have a rewarding exchange across generations. The students get a natural close connection to the older generation and sports halls and schoolyards create increased opportunities for movement for the elderly. A school psychologist has been involved in the development of the school to ensure that trade-offs made in the project have no negative impact on the students.

Focus on indoor and outdoor environments

We work continuously with indoor and outdoor environments that promote safety, health and well-being. A basic element of our environmental certification is to create the right conditions for the people in a building and we are highly focused on such issues as choice of materials, ventilation, noise and natural light. We are also focused on the outdoor environment, since the right qualities in an outdoor environment have a major impact on people’s health and well-being.