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Did you know that, when a tunnel is excavated, the blasts are always supervised by a third party? Or that rock scalers working in the tunnels use machines to remove loose rocks from tunnel walls and ceilings to improve occupational safety? Or that the amount of rock that is detached from the rock in one blast is called a break?

The construction industry pays more and more attention to the environment and sustainable development. At YIT, these matters are developed systematically. But how is the environment taken into consideration in the various stages of infrastructure construction?

Everyone is talking about sustainable energy production, but not many are aware of all the work required before the turbines of a wind farm can be erected. The infrastructure construction of a wind farm is a precise process including various tasks from geotechnical surveys to the geometry of the curves of forest roads.

In many Finnish cities, plots with the best geological conditions are already being fully constructed. So we need to find new places to build.

Constructing the foundation may not be quite as stirring as putting up the frame or walls of a building but, for the end result, it is at least equally important. Thanks to YIT’s foundation engineering expertise, work on a site does not stop even if something unexpected is discovered under the topsoil.

Wind farms built in Finland are rising higher and higher. Investors are interested in new wind farm projects. It seems that money is no object.

What happens on a construction site before a building starts to make its way up from the ground? Foundation engineering is the often-overlooked cornerstone of all construction – without it, our buildings would tumble to the ground.

Our know-how on foundation engineering surpasses Finland’s national borders. The Rotermann quarter redevelopment, completed by us in 2016 in Tallinn, Estonia, combined expertise on earthworks with an interesting cultural heritage site.