At the end of April of this year, Skonto Būve will put the new BMW car salon in Riga, Dārzciema iela 64A, into operation. Reconstruction of the building was started on February 2016; the existing BMW salon was rebuilt and the new premises have additional 1600 m²of space. Currently, some finalising works are still in progress.

By implementing this building project, the building has obtained new appearance and functionality. A bridge has been built in the middle of the building, which connects both parts of the atrium. The chosen atrium solution is special, as it was made of glass railings, thus giving a sense of weightlessness to the building. Two freight elevators are also built in the building, which will give the opportunity to lift the cars to 2^ndand 3^rdfloor.

The customer of the object is SIA Ērmans.

It is planned to put the building into operation on 24 April 2017

An event „Businessman of the Tukums municipality 2016” took place on 7 October 2016, at the conclusion of the Business Week, during which the most successful businessmen of the municipality are awarded each year. An award "Most Successful Businessman of the Year" was received by Skonto Būve, while the company SIA Skonto Plan was honoured with a nomination “Most Generous RIT Payer of the Year". SIA Skonto Plan also received an award "Most Generous Supporter of Youth”.

Tukums for the Skonto Group is a significant place for business development as it is a home of production plants of two successful companies of the Group - "Skonto Plan" and "Forta Medical", which are constantly being developed, thus creating new jobs in Tukums. Already next year, 1.5 million EUR will be invested in improvement of the "Skonto Plan" production plant.

On Friday, 1 July with a parade of antique cars and cutting of the symbolic red ribbon the reconstructed CSDD (Road Traffic Safety Directorate) Riga Motor Museum (RMM) was opened. The museum has undergone large-scale reconstruction, and now the largest and most up-to-date museum of historic vehicles in the Baltics is open to visitors.

After extensive reconstruction of the museum, its premises have been fully transformed in accordance with modern requirements, acquiring more spacious and more qualitative premises for the exhibition, a facilitated and pleasant environment and easy accessibility for any visitor. The museum exhibition creates an exciting and interactive story about the unique vehicles, the remarkable personalities and the most significant events in the history of vehicles and mankind. The exhibition is housed on three floors in an area of more than 4000 square metres and currently more than 100 unique cars, motorcycles and bicycles are displayed in it.

Reconstruction of the museum building has been implemented by the office of architects SIA Arhis Arhitekti and by constructor SIA Skonto Būve, but the exhibition design has been created by SIA H2E.

Riga Motor Museum was opened in 1989, but in 2016 reconstruction of the building was completed.

The construction company LLC Skonto Būve, upon implementing its long-term growth and operation expansion plans, has set up a Council of the company that will purposefully complement the strategic management structure of the company. The Chairman of the Council is Guntis Rāvis, who is also one of the shareholders of LLC Skonto Būve.

The Council will be formed of the Chairman of the Council Guntis Rāvis and Council Members Ivars Millers and Rihards Rāvis. In turn, the employees of LLC Skonto Būve Juris Pētersons and Dmitrijs Soldatenko have been appointed to the Board of the company and a position of Director is created that will be held by Andris Pureklis.

"Implementing the further development strategy of Skonto Būve required improvement of the company administration as well, therefore the formation of the Council is a purposeful and logical stage of development of the company. The Council will be responsible for the strategic development work, but the Board of Skonto Būve will supervise and manage the daily work of the company as well as will continue developing and implementing plans that will ensure further growth," explains Guntis Rāvis, Chairman of the Council of LLC Skonto Būve.

30th March, 2016

On 17 March the closing of the competition “Best Building in Latvia of the Year 2015” and the winner award ceremony took place. The limited liability company “Skonto Būve” received 4 awards and one prize of acknowledgment. The client centre of the Road Traffic Safety Directorate in Mezciems was named in the nomination of the year’s best new public construction. This building differs with its dynamically curved multi-edged façade on one side of the building and the greened façade on the other side. Its central interior element is a round-shaped atrium of five stories in height, culminating in an upper light that is created in a special print and combined with a coloured glass tower in a broken lined form that is used as discussion premises. Project manager – Modris Selakovs, construction work manager – Raimonds Breide.

Third place in the nomination “New public construction” was won by the extension of the international airport’s “Riga” passenger terminal or the first part of construction of the northern dock.Project manager – Gints Bimanis, construction work manager – Ilgvars Kalvitis.

An acknowledgment in the same nomination was received for the new building of a guest house complex at 4 Ikskiles Street, in Jurmala. Project manager – Egils Klebergs, construction work manager – Aleksandrs Bass.

Second placein the nomination “New residential building” was awarded to the Multifunctional centre CENTRUS in Riga, a quarter between Blaumana, Terbatas, Dzirnavu and Krisjana Barona streets – the 2^nd part. Project manager – Aldis Rerihs, construction work manager – Valdis Kovalskis.

The award for the best building of last year in the nomination “Restoration” was given to the renovation and restoration of Riga Castle’s frontal castle and its Eastern extension. Project manager - Egils Klebergs, construction work manager – Edgars Sivickis.

The management of Skonto Būve expresses their gratitude to all of its employees that have invested an enormous amount of work and energy in order to provide quality, constructive solutions and aesthetical beauty of our objects, giving them a significant place in the history of construction in Latvia!

The competition “Best Building in Latvia of the Year 2015” is organised by the Latvian Builders’ Association, the Latvian Association of Civil Engineers, the Latvian Construction Contractor Association and 13 large professional organisations of the construction industry.