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YIT has developed a concept that will both lessen the environmental burden of data processing and make life easier for tech companies in need of new data centers.

As advancing digitalization demands new data centers, the interests of the environment require data centers to be more sustainable and energy-efficient. The Nordic countries have a lot to offer to companies that are searching for the optimal location for their data center.

Early cooperation between the city, housing company and partners would save the parties unnecessary rounds of planning as well as costs.

Helsinki has been a pioneer of underground zoning, and its underground local master plan from 2011 was the first of its kind globally. However, in recent years, Helsinki has started very few underground projects — some operated by the private sector, some by the city.

Car tyres, kitchen furniture, sofas, household appliances, old abandoned cars, batteries, oil canisters, bottles full of urine, drug syringes, lawn mowers, chainsaws, bicycles, sex toys, tins, renovation waste from bathtubs to asbestos. The list of waste left on roadsides and in rest areas is long. The bill for cleaning it up is ultimately paid by the taxpayer.

Seppo Toivonen from the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency shares his views on the evolving toolbox for large-scale road projects.

The alliances of Tampere Tramway and the Lapland Central Hospital expansion have created numerous innovations. In addition, a true team spirit prevails in the projects, also outside of working hours.

YIT Site Manager Jari Paajanen (32) had a hunger for adventure, mulled over the decision for quite a while and, finally, left for Stockholm to build the Henriksdal wastewater treatment plant expansion under the E2 tunnel project.