Maria Grimberg has been appointed Head of Corporate Communication for NCC. During the autumn, she has been Acting Communication Manager for NCC and also Partner and Managing Director of JKL, a communications consultancy, where she has worked for more than 20 years.

The Nomination Committee has proposed that Alf Göransson be elected to NCC’s Board of Directors. Alf Göransson was formerly CEO of Securitas and, prior to that, was CEO of NCC for a period of six years. The Nomination Committee has also proposed the re-election of Tomas Billing (Chairman), Geir Magne Aarstad, Viveca Ax:son Johnson, Mats Jönsson, Angela Langemar Olsson, Ulla Litzén and Birgit Nørgaard. Carina Edblad has declined re-election.

NCC will begin the construction of the major hospital project in Oulu, Finland. With the new hospital plans, which were made after the initial construction contract was signed in November 2017, NCC’s share of the project has increased by about SEK 400 million and is now altogether about SEK 1,100 million.

NCC has been awarded first prize in the Finnish health and safety competition "Turvallisuus alkaa minusta” (Safety starts with me) where the winning worksite scored a historical maximum 100 in the TR-index, an index that is used to measure health and safety standard.

A swan label residential building which NCC built for VAV has been nominated for an innovation award by Asuntomarkkinat, an annual housing event. This year the competition focuses on solutions and services that help control and prevent climate change.

Ann-Marie Hedbeck has been appointed General Counsel of NCC. She has been Acting General Counsel on two occasions, once in the Executive Management Team and once in the expanded Executive Management Team, since the end of August.