The purpose of the study is partly to investigate and identify the functions of the professional roles in architecture; architect, landscape architect, plan- or planning architect and interior architect fill in the agencies' external sustainability work such as projects, and partly how the architectural firms' organizational structures are affected by their external sustainability work. Through a qualitative method and semi-structured interviews with five architectural firms, the study wants to create a greater understanding of architectural firms' external sustainability work by examining what their external sustainability work looks like, how the business generates and ensures sustainable results and what functions the different professional roles in architecture play for external sustainability work. The empirical result is analyzed using previous research and published theories and results in the conclusion that three of the four architectural roles, architect, landscape architect and1interior architect, contribute to the architectural firms' external sustainability work with the help of education, experience, knowledge and competence. One of the four professional roles, plan- or planning architect, is not employed at any of the architectural firms examined and the study can thus not determine what function the professional role plays in the external sustainability work. The study also shows that the architectural firms' external sustainability work affects their organizational structures, as the design and structuring of the architectural firms largely depends on what the projects look like. All surveyed architectural firms are project-based and adapt their teams and structures to what the projects require.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka ImseVimses interna hållbarhetsarbete och målet var att komma fram till förbättringsförslag som hjälper till att få ImseVimse att få en insikt i nuvarande hållbarhetsarbete och gå mot att genomsyras av hållbarhet inifrån och ut i alla aspekter. Studien undersöker tre frågeställningar (1) Vad innebär intern hållbarhet för ImseVimse AB? (2) Hur kan ImseVimse AB förbättras inom den interna hållbarheten? (3) Hur kan ImseVimse AB förmedla intern hållbarhet inom verksamheten? Teorier som har presenterats i studien är hållbarhet och dess tre dimensioner, utifrån en hållbar utveckling och ständiga förbättringars perspektiv. Titta på leans förbättringsarbete, mötesteknik och utvärdering och likaväl språket och begreppsanasatsen som används i ImseVimse i dagsläget. För att samla in data till studien har personliga intervjuer, telefonintervjuer, enkäter och dokumentgranskning använts som metoder och ledningsverktyget släktskapsdiagram och jämförelseverktyget benchmarking har använts för att ta fram resultat om begreppen hållbarhet, intern hållbarhet, extern hållbarhet, företagens hållbarhetsarbete ur olika perspektiv. Detta har resulterat i att Imsevimse kan behöva börja med att dokumentera ner begreppen som har tagits fram i studien och skapa sig ett gemensamt språk och kommunikation som kan ske via dagliga möten och en kontinuerlig enkel visuell lättillgänglig dokumentation och uppföljning av arbete. Slutsatsen är att förbättringsförslagen som har tagits fram föreslår att använda sig av PDSA, ständiga förbättringar, använda sig av en förbättringstavla, dokumentera och ha ett tydligt ansvarstagande, utvärdering och uppföljning av arbetet med den interna hållbarheten. / The aim of the study was to investigate ImseVimses internal sustainability work and the goal was to come up with improvement proposals that help ImseVimse gain an insight into current sustainability work. The study examines three issues (1) What does internal sustainability mean for ImseVimse AB? (2) How can ImseVimse AB be improved within its internal sustainability? (3) How can ImseVimse AB convey internal sustainability within the business? Theories that have been presented in the study are sustainability and its three dimensions, based on sustainable development and continuous improvement perspectives. Theories that has been used in the study is leans improvement work, meeting technique and evaluation, as well as the language and conceptual approach used in ImseVimse at present. To collect data for the study, personal interviews, telephone interviews, questionnaires and document reviews have been used as methods and the management tool relationship diagrams and the benchmarking comparison tool have been used to produce results on the concepts of sustainability, internal sustainability, external sustainability, corporate sustainability work from different perspectives. This has resulted in Imsevimse having to start by documenting the concepts that have been developed in the study and creating a common language and communication that can be done through daily meetings and a continuous easy visual accessible documentation and follow-up of work. The conclusion is that the improvement proposals that have been prepared suggest using PDSA, continuous improvement, using an improvement board, documenting, and having clear responsibility, evaluation, and follow-up of the work on internal sustainability.