Buildings lasting 500 years are a result of technical and material efficiency. We have made a commitment to develop a sustainable system of construction for a domestic program led by the Ministry of Environment and coordinated by the committee of sustainable development in Finland. We aspire to design buildings which stay healthy and structurally sound for 500 years. View our commitment on the webpage Sitoumus 2050 and check out our message as a video (in Finnish).
We are researching the field of architecture and construction in order to find a way to design buildings which stay healthy and structurally sound at least for 500 years. This might be possible soon, for our research work is accompanied by the leading players in steel and concrete industry and insulation experts. Our partners in said industries include Outokumpu, Consolis (Parma) and Finnmap Consulting. Academic research and producing publications will be included in the project.
With the sustainable construction we are enhancing the sustainable use of materials and so doing our part in the challenge of leaving a planet worth living in for the generations to come. Our aim is to use the 500 years- concept in minimum of 20% of the buildings that we design by the year 2020. A big part of national wealth is bound in buildings. Buildings are valuable, but with the existing construction methods they don’t stay durable, healthy, or desirable enough to keep their value. In other words, we are wasting out national wealth in insufficient design and construction.
There are durable buildings made of wood and stone in the world. What we concentrate on is to create a way to design and construct a durable building structure and enable the development of building services and other wear-out parts of the building to be economically renewed and replaced when needed. We also thrive to design provably healthy and safe structures and to carry out he critical examination of the requirements for modern building services. We see that a big part of the automation can be replaced with simpler and more innovative solutions.
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