The work was commissioned by Helsingin Liikuntahallit Oy and our partners in the project were THR Projektipalvelut as construction consultant, and architectural office Arkkitehdit-Niiranen Oy. Our challenge in the project was to demonstrate the fire resistance of the steel structures in the hall. We demonstrated the fire resistance of the structures bearing the roof of the ice rink with performance-based fire safety design. Roof trusses were carried out without intumescent paint. The building was completed in 2018.

Lapinlahti has been called the flagship of Finnish psychiatry. Designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, the hospital was built by Russian emperor’s order and completed in 1841. The history of Lapinlahti Hospital is associated with many Finnish celebrities, including the Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi, who was being treated for chronic melancholy during the years 1871–1872, and Christian Sibelius, the brother of Jean Sibelius, who served as chief physician of the hospital in the early 20th century.

The oldest public sauna in Helsinki can also be found in the hospital area. The sauna building, completed in the 1880s, was once built for the use of both personnel and patients. Nowadays, the sauna has public sauna shifts and can also be booked for private use.

Last hospital units in the premises of Lapinlahti were some psychiatric departments of Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa. Hospital operations ended in December 2008 when last departments moved to the HUS Psychiatry Center.

KK-Palokonsultti Oy participated in the renovation of Lapinlahti Hospital. The work was commissioned by the Helsingin Kaupungin Tilakeskus. Our partners in the project were architectural offices Arkkitehtitoimisto Leena Yli-Lonttinen Ky and Arkkitehtitoimisto Koskinen & Schalin Oy.

The goal of our design work was to maintain fire safety requirements at a sufficient level in a building that is more than 100 years old. We applied the new regulations on a case-by-case basis for each structure and facility and strived for the best possible level of fire safety, taking into account the protection of the building. The maintenance repair of Lapinlahti Hospital was completed in 2013.

We participated in the repair and expansion of the Leppävaara indoor swimming pool in 2012-2015. The indoor swimming pool was renovated and expanded almost threefold in area. With the expansion, the indoor swimming pool included a café, a summer swimming pool, a masseuse and a gym.

In connection with the project, which began in 2010, an area of an in-ground swimming pool was built next to the indoor swimming pool, which, in addition to a full 10-lane racing pool, includes a water slide, two beach volleyball courts, a street basketball court and a children’s play area.

The renovation of the old part wanted to preserve as much as possible the original architecture and the spirit of the time in the swimming pool space designed by Professor Osmo Lappo. Therefore, the wooden facades of the extension were harmonized in tone with the old part and the design sought to remain faithful to the style drawn by Lappo in the 60s.

The client of the work was the Espoo City Space Center, our partner in the project was Pöyry Finland Oy. We were commissioned to determine the fire resistance of partitioned glass walls, wood facades, and facade glass. We looked at pieces of partitioned glass walls and wood facades and their effects, and found workable solutions through it.

The repair and extension of the Leppävaara indoor swimming pool was completed in January 2016.

Veho Oy Ab is a company originally established in 1939 to import Mercedes-Benz. Today, Veho is one of the most significant players in the Finnish car industry. The decision on the largest investment ever in Veho’s 77-year history, a new flagship store near Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, was made in the spring of 2014. Exactly two years later a new store was opened to the public.

The Veho Mercedes-Benz Airport is based on the concepts of Mercedes-Benz’s own stores. In fact, the building is almost identical to the Mercedes-Benz’s flagship store in Nuremberg, Germany. The chief designer-architect in Finland was Marcel Ulmer from architectural office Arkkitehdit Tommila Oy. Mercedes-Benz Airport has an area of 11,200 square meters. The service workshop, located on street level, has 34 crane berths, three express service bays, and a separate engine repair shop. The building employs about 80 people, of whom 20 are in sales and 60 in maintenance.

Our challenge in this project was to define the load-bearing structures of the building’s canopies against a fire below. We solved the problem by simulating the assumed fire scenarios under them. Based on the fire simulations, roof trusses were carried out without fireproofing of the structures. The work was commissioned by Veho Group Oy Ab. Our partner in project was architectural office Architects Tommila Oy .

Opinmäki School, more officially Opinmäki Learning Center, is located in Suurpelto, Espoo. The building houses an international English-language unified school, part of the Päiväkehrä school, Opinmäki kindergarten and a small library. School sites must be healthy and safe, and these properties must be maintained throughout the long life cycle of the building. In addition, the buildings must serve their purpose impeccably. The main goal of Opinmäki’s design was a new way of working in common spaces. At the time, the project received recognition for listening to nearby residents in its design.

Opinmäki as was an exceptionally challenging construction project starting from the groundwork. It was built on an ancient seabed. The building itself is a complex ensemble consisting of nine parts connected by a single lobby. The spans of the structures are quite long and the roofs of every nine sections have different slopes. The space can be divided by partition walls or connected with sliding doors. Some learning spaces are directly connected to the corridor space, and to other learning spaces.

Challenging architecture led to visible structures and building services in many places. The structures have been implemented in the form of wooden elements, castings, concrete elements and steel trusses. Slightly different from usual, polyurethane for the thermal insulation of Opinmäki’s outer walls is pre-installed on the outer shell elements.

KOy Opinmäki Kampus real estate company, which is wholly owned by the City of Espoo, was established to implement Opinmäki. The Espoon Tilakeskus was responsible for building the project. Our partner was Esa Ruskeepää Architects, which in 2011 won an open architectural competition for the design of the site together with architect Thomas Miyauch. The main designer of the project was Vesa Erikkilä and the project architect was Sasu Marila.

In Opinmäki, our task was compartmentation of lobby areas connecting the buildings, as well as the exit safety of the sports hall. We optimized the compartmentation lobby spaces so that the compartmentation was carried out at the lowest possible cost. In addition, we simulated the effects and spread of a facade fire. Polyurethane-insulated facades, wooden roof elements for water roofs and solid wood claddings were approved by the authorities as the first P1 fire class building in Espoo. The building was completed in 2015.

Sola Business Valley was built in 2011–2012. It was the largest office project in Lujatalo Oy’s history. The facilities of the modern office building are designed to be spacious and easily modifiable. Sola Business Valley was implemented in accordance with environmental classifications of international LEED certificate. Veritas Eläkevakuutus, a pension insurance company, bought the property while construction work was still underway, and it became the owner of the property immediately after its completion.

The constructor of this project was Lujatalo Oy, and our partner in the project was architectural office L Arkkitehdit Oy (Architects Larkas & Laine). Our challenge was the exit safety and smoke ventilation of the parking garage. We solved the challenge by simulating the worst possible fire scenarios. At the same time, we ensured the adequacy of the escape routes, as well as smoke clearance and locations of smoke ventilation.

Helsinki’s Salmisaari (Sundholmen) belongs to the Länsisatama (West Harbour) district and the Ruoholahti area. In the early 20th century, Salmisaari was a rocky island inhabited by fishermen and summer residents. Julius Tallberg, who owned the area, sold Salmisaari to the city of Helsinki in 1918. Right after that groundwork and backfilling started, turning the island into an industrial and warehouse area. When the strait between Salmisaari and Helsinginniemi was filled, Salmisaari became a part of the mainland – and also few other islands are nowadays under the Salmisaari and Länsiväylä highway.

The industrialization of the area began in the 1930s. Today, the landscape of Salmisaari is dominated by historical landmarks from the industrialization era: the Helsinki Energy power plant, the Cable Factory, and the former Alko head office, factory and central warehouse, which in 2004 were renovated for the Helsinki Courthouse. It should be mentioned that Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy’s old factory building was the largest building in Finland at the time of its completion in 1943. The Cable Factory and the Alko factory are successful examples of the reuse of old industrial properties. Old industrial buildings are now protected sites.

Espoo’s old railway station was built in 1903 according to architect Bruno Granholm’s drawings. Drawings were inspired by the Nordic national romantic architectural style. Building was extended in 1909. The Espoo station operated in its original station building from 1903-1981. The station area changed dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s, when a large office center was completed in a small rural village. Today, the Espoo station operates on a crossing bridge over the tracks, which was originally built on the basis of Olavi Vanninen’s drawings in 1981.

The station bridge, which gave a grim and depressing first impression of the center of Espoo, became the property of VR Group (government-owned railway company in Finland) in 1995. The City of Espoo purchased the station from VR Group in 2008 and began renovation work at the station that cost 6.7 million as part of the Espoo Centre’s development program. Improvements were carried out in 2009-2010. Raising the bridge between Espoontori and the fourth track were preparations for upcoming travel center and the bus terminal.

The starting point for the Paulig’s coffee roastery was to create “modern, comfortable and functionally efficient architecture which communicates the company’s values” for the traditional coffee company. The company’s previous roastery in the center of Vuosaari had been in use for more than 40 years. The building was designed by Architects Tommila Oy and Lemcon Oy was the main contractor. The interior of the house was designed by Studio Bergroth.

The Vuosaari roastery produces 100 million coffee packages per year and has more than 200 different products in its production. The roastery is one of the largest in Europe and employs a couple of hundred people. The location in Vuosaari Harbor is excellent, as the raw coffee comes to Finland by ship. In addition to Oy Gustav Paulig Ab, the group’s parent company Paulig Oy and Santa Maria Finland Oy operate in the building. In November 2009, Paulig’s new roastery received Steel Structure of the Year 2009 award . The initial cost estimate for the project was EUR 120 million.