The Silverdal: Stockholm Environmental Science Park's priciple goal is to promote the creation of useful, innovative and commercially viable environmentally driven technologies.

An industrial, institutional, academic or public body operating from Silverdal shall, quite simply, perform more effectively and achieve successful result more quickly than in the world at large.

This will be achieved through the creation of a fertile environment in which intellectual, entrepreneurial and financial resources can interact and generate tangible synergy effects.

Silverdal will unite large and small industrial and service corporations with universities, research institutions, public sector and venture capital corporations within a harmonious, creative and ecologically-friendly environment. It will contain facilities for working, living, leisure and service forming an integrated, dynamic, part of the Greater Stockholm Region. Construction works commenced in the beginning of 2001.

Silverdal, when fully developed, will comprise a built area of some 180,000 m2 providing facilities for some 4000 researchers, technicians and entrepreneurs in addition to the provision of some 600 - 700 residential units.

Silverdal, located in the capital city of Sweden within a region renowned for its stringent environmental laws and good practice offers an optimal environment for the innovation, development and implementation of advanced science-based environmental industries. It will unite the inherent wealth of educational, research and industrial competence of the Stockholm Region with the best available international competence towards the establishment of a Science Park of leading international status.

Silverdal will also be an international science park of the highest architectural exellence, set in a parkland - garden city milieu,representing an internationalshowpiece of environmentally-friendly building and engineering.

Silverdal is being developed in close collaboration with it's Industrial Steering Committee, Reference Group and a wide range of external consultants.

The Industrial Steering Committee (ISC) comprises leading environmentally-driven corporations who share a common ambition of contributing towards the development of a sustainable society.

The primary function of the ISC is that of influencing the formulation of policies, strategies and operational principles for Silverdal.

The ISC Member Companies during the
developmental phase have been AGA, Kemira, Naturvårdsverket, Skanska, Stockholm Energy, Stockholm Water, TA Control
Telia, Vattenfall, WMI Sellbergs, Windborne International

Silverdal was initiated by Windborne International in 1994 and, subsequently, co-developed together with Skanska and Sollentuna Local Authority.

Silverdal is currently under construction .