Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2018 | Page 24

Find a better working life

At Tripla , just about anybody can build a location for themselves in which it is easy to live and work .
The new heart of Helsinki is being constructed in Pasila , a neighborhood at the junction of Finland ’ s major traffic connections . At the heart of Pasila is Tripla , a unique combination of office , commercial and residential premises that also offers a range of services that make daily life easier .
PHOTOS : ARI TALUSÉN , YIT , ADOBE STOCK

The City of Helsinki has great plans for the Pasila area . As it is now , more than 10,000 people live in the area and more than 23,000 commuters work there . However , over the course of the next 20 years or so , the number of residents in Pasila will triple and more than 25,000 new jobs will be created .

In the new Central Pasila , jobs will be concentrated around the railway station . It is exactly in this area that YIT is building Tripla . Tripla is a huge complex encompassing three blocks that amount to 183,000 square metres in floor area , including a shopping mall , a parking hall , public transport , apartments , a hotel , and offices .
Furthermore , offices will not comprise just standard cubicles in which stressed out
24 Nordicum workers tap away at their workstations while fluorescent lamps blink in the ceiling above them . Tripla is a huge project when measured by sheer numbers alone , but even more impressive are the new opportunities to work that are being incorporated into the complex .
Tripla Workery , including its office premises , is designed for people and changing situations . The range of services that will grow around them will also open up entirely new opportunities for people and companies working there in creating an ideal working environment for themselves .
“ Tripla will truly combine work and life in the most flexible way possible ,” comments Tuula Klemetti , Sales Director at YIT .
New service concepts facilitate daily life
Tripla ’ s new service concepts offer excellent examples of how daily life can be flexibly combined with work . Among other things , Tripla will be a hub for the most accessible bicycle route network in Finland , providing for more than 2,000 indoor parking places for bicycles , including social premises , rental and repair services for cyclists , all of which support people ’ s