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Photo: Helin & Co Architects
fore special effort is placed on recognising
and controlling all risks during the project.
The main idea is to fully draw on the
experiences from previous projects, such as
the Kamppi Centre.
“Actually, at the time when Kamppi
was constructed it represented even a bigger investment for the company than Kalasatama, proportionally speaking,” Nieminen adds.
What will Kalasatama be all about,
then? Well, the new neighbourhood certainly
seems to be aiming high: Kalasatama Centre consists of six residential towers as well
as a hotel and an office tower. The towers
will have 20 to 33 floors, the highest being
126 meters high.
Green Appeal
dertaking is indeed a big one for a company whose annual turnover is around € 600
million. Still, SRV has a reputation of going after the toughest challenges out there –
and winning out in the end. Many of these
success stories have been extremely highprofile cases, too, such as entertainment oasis Flamingo, Kamppi shopping centre or
the recently opened Helsinki Music Centre
which was just praised by The New York
Times.
“We, as an organization, look for these
types of challenges and have done so for 25
years,” Nieminen says. The company’s “secret weapon” in handling such projects is the
SRV Model which emphasises solid project
management, networks and logistics.
“Projects such as Kalasatama require
broad expertise and we are confident that
we have enough resources to succeed.” The
value of the infrastructure construction in
Kalasatama during the first phase alone is
around € 45 million.
Ready for the Big Time
At Kalasatama, SRV is looking, once again,
to create an innovative landmark development project – this time together with the
City of Helsinki.
Jukka Hienonen, CEO of SRV, has
called the undertaking “an enormous construction engineering, financial and commercial effort” for the company, and there-
The towers will house 86,000 square meters
of apartments for approximately 2,000 inhabitants and 14,000 square meters of offices as well as a hotel of 10,000 square meters.
Itäväylä road and metro line will be covered
with a green deck.
“What this means is that we want to
create a park-like setting on the deck which
is located six store