News Finnish modular builder plans $750m factory in US state of Georgia Finnish modular builder Admares has announced plans to build a $750m “mega factory” in the city of Waycross in southeast Georgia. The 2.5 million sq ft factory will create an…
News 14 years late, Finland’s new reactor, Olkiluoto 3, starts generating power The 1.6GW Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor began producing electricity yesterday, 18 years after the project broke ground and €8bn over its original €3bn budget. OL3 is the largest nuclear…
News Finland starts erecting fence along Russian border Finland has begun erecting a 3km-long pilot stretch of its planned barbed-wire-topped fence along its border with Russia. Ground preparation began on 28 February and work on the pilot stretch…
Trends Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2 The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…
News Norway’s Blastr aims to build €4bn green steel plant in Finland Norwegian company Blastr Green Steel plans to invest €4bn in a Finnish steel mill with an integrated hydrogen production facility, the Bloomberg news agency reports. Blastr signed a letter of…
News Helsinki picks a plan for its “new cultural heart” The government of Helsinki has announced the winners of a competition to create a “new cultural heart” in the Finnish capital. The plan is to turn more than 8ha of…
News Skanska wins contracts in Texas and Helsinki Swedish contractor Skanska has won a design-and-build contract worth €56m in Houston and will invest €45m in a residential project (pictured) in Helsinki. In the US, Skanska will work with…
News Skanska wins projects in Finland and Norway worth €74m Swedish contractor Skanska has won two building contracts, a residential project in Finland and a school in Norway, worth a total of €74m. The €38m residential development project (pictured above)…
News ‘We are deeply shocked’: Finland’s YIT ceases new work in Russia Finland’s biggest construction company YIT has halted investment in Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.