Building a safety culture – StreamBIM Day Stockholm 2025

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#5 - Building an on-site safety culture through Digital Construction

In the fifth presentation from StreamBIM Day Stockholm 2025, we move on to the people working on-site.

Site managers Rickard Lundin and Kalle Svansbo showcase how Swedish CM firm Byggstyrning AB uses digital ways of working to help promote a sense of community and a safety culture among the workers on-site.

Using the time they save on admin thanks to their digital workflows, the site managers are able to devote more time to follow up the individual workers and promote safety.

Portrait of Rickard Lundin, site manager at Byggstyrning AB

Rickard Lundin

Site manager, Byggstyrning AB

Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Rickard was the site manager for the Lumi project, one of Sweden’s most ambitious reuse projects. Consisting of offices and labs, the refurbishing of the 1970s building for client Vasakronan is at the forefront of sustainable construction practices.

Portrait of Kalle Svansbo, site manager at Byggstyrning AB

Karl Svansbo

Site manager, Byggstyrning AB

A passionate promoter of digital construction practices on-site, Karl, who goes by Kalle, is a site manager for Byggstyrning in Stockholm, Sweden. He was site manager for the recently completed Grev Tureplan project for client Vasakronan, which won the Building of the year award as well as the ‘Holl Nollan’ work environment award.

Recording date: 22 May 2025 

Language: Swedish

Subtitles: EN, NO, SE, JP/日本語 

Main Themes and Key Points

Byggstyrning AB

  • Award-winning Swedish construction management firm, based in Stockholm and Uppsala.
  • Founded in 2000, currently 13 employees.
  • Projects include Celsius (2020), Lumi (2024), Nattugglan, Grev Tureplan (2024), and the Nobel Centre (current).
  • Started their digitalization journey in 2017 with the Celsius project.
 

Use of StreamBIM and Power BI

  • StreamBIM used for:
    • Communication
    • Issue tracking
    • Site coordination
    • Sharing 3D models with all site personnel
 
  • Power BI dashboards integrated with BIM for:
    • Tracking reused materials (e.g. doors with EPC codes)
    • Scheduling and logistics
    • Visualizing risks in real-time using traffic-light dashboards
 

Workplace Visualization and Digital Coordination

  • Fully modeled construction sites including cranes, scaffolding, and logistics
  • Prevents schedule conflicts and equipment clashes, giving fewer delays
  • Workers are given access to StreamBIM, enabling direct communication and visibility.
  • Everyone’s access to the model and updated information ensures unified communication
  • Uses BIM to plan and break down projects into phases, tasks, work areas, and material logistics
  • Adoption of Takt planning to optimize work sequencing and time management across job sites
 

Focus on People and Safety

  • Freed-up time from digital tools is used to:
    • Hold daily on-site meetings with team leaders
    • Do ‘gemba’ walks to stay close to workers
    • Put people first, with a focus on safety and empowerment
 

All communication kept in StreamBIM

  • Over 19,000 topics in the Grev Tureplan project, almost 14,000 at Lumi.
  • Workers were encouraged to report, resolve, and verify safety issues
  • Concrete workers once used a concrete delivery delay to resolve open safety issues for other teams on-site — evidence of a strong team culture.
 

3D Daily Site Capture

  • Use of helmet-mounted 3D cameras (like OpenSpace) to:
    • Capture daily progress
    • Share updates with tenants and stakeholders
    • Coordinate tenant-driven design changes in near real time
 
 

Key Takeaways

    • Digitalization saves time, improves collaboration, and strengthens on-site culture.
    • Shared access to up-to-date models breaks down silos and creates a more united team.
    • Emphasis on people, fun, and safety helped the team win an award for “Sweden’s best work environment.”
    • StreamBIM acts as the central platform for everything: planning, communication, logistics, and safety.

This case study showcases how digital construction and BIM isn’t just about efficiency, but how it also can enable better teamwork, clearer communication and a safer, more human-centered construction site. 

 

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