The first thing you meet when you turn off the road towards the Basta rehabilitation facility in Nykvarn is, since August this year, a solar cell park.
The ground facility is now only waiting for a connection point to start producing solar energy and Alexander Backström, responsible project manager at SBP, explains that the collaboration has been a key factor for the project to flow since the start of the project in June.
- They took responsibility early on to prepare the surface and make the area ready so that we could then step in and start the work with a technical overall delivery, he says.
Basta as an organization has high sustainability requirements and wants to follow the global climate goals within the framework of its activities. They run a work-oriented addiction rehabilitation and have framework agreements with 150 municipalities and the prison service. They describe the care as social entrepreneurship, which means, among other things, that Basta is largely run by people who themselves have completed rehabilitation at their rehabilitation center.
Since the ground facility is the first thing visitors encounter, it has been important to make the facility aesthetically pleasing and let it follow the natural pattern of the ground. This, combined with taking into account the natural vegetation and wildlife, is what distinguishes the project from the otherwise more common rooftop facilities.
- The fact that it is an actor who wanted to make an investment like this because of a genuine sustainable interest makes it even more impressive. For me as a project manager, this feels particularly valuable for precisely those reasons and I want to take the opportunity to pay tribute to Basta's desire to make the world a better place.
