Swedish Fortifications Agency
Fortifikationsverket
The coat of arms of the Swedish Fortifications Agency
Agency overview
Formed1994[1]
Preceding agency
  • Fortifikationsförvaltningen (1948-1994)[1]
JurisdictionSweden Government of Sweden
HeadquartersKungsgatan 43,
631 89 Eskilstuna[2]
Employees640 [3]
Annual budgetSelf-sufficient through fees.[4]
Revenue 3.0 billion SEK(2008)[5]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Parent agencyMinistry of Finance[7]
Websitewww.fortifikationsverket.se

The Swedish Fortifications Agency (Swedish: Fortifikationsverket, FortV) is a Swedish government agency under the Ministry of Finance , tasked with managing government-owned defense-related buildings and land. The agency functions as the landlord for the Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten), managing various types of military installations.[7][8] The SFA is one of the largest holders of real estate in Sweden.[7]

Function in the government

The formation of the SFA in 1994 was part of the Swedish government effort to increase the cost-efficiency of government real estate usage through a system of internal rent, which was meant to emulate market-like conditions.[9] The main purpose with the reform was to create economic incentives for the authorities in the public sector to economise on premises.[10] In the defense sector, the real estate holdings were transferred from the Swedish Armed Forces — the user of the real estate — to the SFA; with the Swedish Armed Forces remaining in the estate as a tenant.[9]

Currently, the SFA acts as landlord for several Swedish government agencies in the defense sector.[11] The main tenant is the Swedish Armed Forces, which in 2007 was the source of over 90% of the SFA:s revenue.[11]

Economy

The SFA does not receive an allowance from the government budget.[4] Instead, it covers its expenses by charging rent for the real estate it leases.[4] In 2008, the agency's revenue was 3.0 billion SEK, and its net income 67 million SEK.[5] The rent is adjusted so that the net income — which goes into the state treasury — conforms to a predefined level of return on equity, as set by the Ministry of Finance.[12] To finance investments, the SFA borrows money from the National Debt Office (Riksgälden), which acts as the internal bank of the government.[13]

Personnel

The SFA employed 689 people in 2008.[3] The majority of the employees work on a local level in real estate units linked to garrisons,[14] where employees work in areas such as project management, property development and maintenance services.[15] At the regional and national level, employees work in real estate purchasing and sales, defense facility development, and various management functions.[15] The SFA considers its core competencies to be security and protective technology.[16] The agency has stated that it aims to increase the amount of outsourcing, and as an experiment in 2006, it outsourced the property maintenance of two garrisons.[17]

Karlberg Palace in Solna, Stockholm — which houses the Military Academy Karlberg — is one of the properties managed by the SFA.[18]

Real estate stock

In 2008, the book value of the government real estate stock managed by the SFA was 10.1 billion SEK,[19] largely consisting of depots, garrisons, training facilities, offices, and proving grounds.[20] In 2007, the total real estate stock included:[21]

  • 8 000 buildings
  • 3.3 million square meters of open space facilities
  • 7 700 defense facilities
  • 11 airfields
  • 380 000 hectares of land, including:
  • 100 000 hectares of forest

Directors General

Directors General of the Swedish Fortifications Administration

  • 1948–1951: Nils Josef Einar Carlqvist
  • 1951–1963: Gunnar Christianson
  • 1963–1971: Birger Wallén
  • 1971–1983: Stig Swanstein
  • 1983–1989: Eric Pettersson
  • 1989–1994-06-30: Björn Körlof

Directors General of the Swedish Fortifications Agency

  • 1994-07-01 – 1999: Torsten Engberg
  • 1999–2002: Jane Cederqvist
  • 2003–2009: Sören Häggroth
  • 2009-03-01 – 2011-12-31: Lena Jönsson
  • 2012-01-01 – 2018: Urban Karlström
  • 2018-04-09 – 20xx: Maria Bredberg Pettersson

Notes

  1. 1 2 Swedish Fortifications Agency: "Fortifikationsverket". Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  2. ↑ "Kontakt" (in Swedish). Swedish Fortification Agency. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  3. 1 2 "Om oss" (in Swedish). Swedish Fortification Agency. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  4. 1 2 3 Ministry of Finance 2009, p. 5.
  5. 1 2 Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 38.
  6. ↑ "Fortifikationsverkets styrelse" (in Swedish). Swedish Fortifications Agency. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  7. 1 2 3 Ministry of Finance 2009: "Myndigheter m.m." Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  8. ↑ Holmström 2008
  9. 1 2 Swedish Agency for Public Management 2004, p. 5-6
  10. ↑ Lind 2005
  11. 1 2 Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, p. 12.
  12. ↑ Ministry of Finance 2009, p. 1.
  13. ↑ Ministry of Finance 2003
  14. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 7.
  15. 1 2 Swedish Fortifications Agency: "Fortifikationsverket". Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  16. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2008, p. 5.
  17. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, p. 8.
  18. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency: "Fortifikationsverket". Archived from the original on 2008-04-22. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  19. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency, p. 39.
  20. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency 2007, pp. 18, 20.
  21. ↑ Swedish Fortifications Agency "Fortifikationsverket". Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-11.

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