Svenska Byggbranschens Utvecklingsfond, SBUF The Development Fund of the Swedish Construction Industry

SBUF is the construction industry's organisation for research and development.

SBUF's aim is to promote development in the building process in order to create more favourable conditions for constructions contractors by enabling them to benefit from research and conduct development work.

Employers’ associations and trade unions jointly founded the Development Fund of the Swedish Construction Industry, SBUF, in 1983.

SBUF is the construction industry's organisation for research and development. Founding members of SBUF are:

How SBUF operates

SBUF operates with a board, four committees and a secretariat. SBUF members are represented on the board and the committees. One or more committees (building, civil engineering, mechanical services) are screening the applications and makes suggestions about grants for development projects before the board makes the decision. The research committee handles applications for university research in co-operation with the companies. About 100 projects are being granted yearly.

SBUF supports as well national research programmes like Competitive Building, Sustainable Building and IT Construction & Real Estate 2002.

 

How SBUF is financed

Funds are raised from members in proportion to number of annually employed.

How SBUF spends its money

SBUF spends about 60 million Swedish kronor yearly on support for development and research projects. However, the companies running the projects finance part of the projects. Projects are co-financed with government support, mostly from The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) but also from The Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova), Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and other research organisations. SBUF contributes to several major research programmes founded on co-operation between companies and technical universities.

How results are published

Final reports from about 100 projects annually are spread to members and subscribers through Newsletters and articles with summaries of results. Every report is also available on our website where you also can find information on current projects, master and doctoral theses, www.sbuf.se.

Other information channels to which SBUF contributes are periodicals, leaflets, videos, seminars, conferences, demonstrations and exhibitions. And of course on social media.

 

Contact us Mailing address

SBUF
P.O. Box 5501, SE-114 85 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Contact us Visiting address

Näringslivets Hus
Storgatan 19, Stockholm
Sweden

Contact us Phone

+46 (0)8 – 783 81 00

Mission and objectives

More favourable conditions through research and development.

SBUF aim is to promote development in the building process in order to create more favourable conditions for constructions contractors by enabling them to benefit from research and conduct development work.

Further aims are:

  • To improve the effectiveness ranging from raw material to complete product and from idea to destruction by means of development and collaboration,
  • to promote collaboration for development with specialised contractors in order to improve the effectiveness in the entire building sector,
  • to stimulate and support research at the technical universities on questions vital to contractors and,
  • to support development of methods and equipment making construction, service and maintenance more attractive and better adjusted to construction workers,
  • to support research and development being the basis for performance-oriented public rules and standards