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Photo: Citycon

is seeking LEED certification
for Rocca Al Mare as confirmation of its environmental focus. Thus far, no building in
the Baltic countries has been
awarded the LEED certification. Among Citycon’s shopping
centres, Trio in Lahti, Finland,
is LEED certified and for Liljeholmstorget Galleria in Stockholm, Sweden, the certification
is pending.
Juhokas was in charge of
Rocca Al Mare which is also the
biggest shopping centre in Estonia.
“The LEED process was a
challenging one, since we started utilising the method halfway

through the project instead of
the very beginning.”

Best in the Business
While Citycon is an experienced
veteran with regards to shopping
centres, its partner NCC is no
spring chicken either. In fact,
the company was just selected
as the best developer of business
premises and shopping centres
in Scandinavia by Euromoney
magazine.
NCC is eager to take on
the challenge of Iso Omena,
since it has a comparable expe-

rience under its belt already: the
shopping centre Sello, also located in Espoo.
“In Sello there was a
similar setting where traffic
arrangements posed a big part of
the challenge. We are confident
that we can take what we learned
from Sello and apply our knowledge in Matinkylä,” says Jorma
Ahokas, Managing Director of
NCC Property Development.
“The level of service will
be completely modernised in
Matinkylä,” Ahokas promises.
Another shopping centre

project in the making can be
found in Hämeenlinna where
downtown will be expanded
from promenades directly into a shopping centre, making it
easy to reach on foot, too. NCC
is hoping that the shopping centre will evolve into a new kind of
meeting place for the citizens of
Hämeenlinna. The city planning
for the centre should be completed during the year 2010.
In its own projects, NCC
uses BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method)
which is the classification system of choice utilised by ICSC
(International Council of Shopping Centres). b
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