Swedish contractor Skanska and Swedish engineering consultancies Sweco and Rejlers are picking up light rail-related work in Helsinki as the Finnish capital enters a decade of tramline expansion to accommodate a growing population.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €100m tranche of funding for the Laakso hospital complex in Helsinki, bringing the total amount loaned to €480m. The scope of work…

Finnish company Steady Energy has signed an agreement to develop nuclear-powered heating for the town of Kerava, about 10km north of Helsinki. The deal, with utility Keravan Energia, will use…

Sweco has won a €4.2m contract to design and manage construction of a protein factory in Finland for biotech start-up Enifer.

Finnish energy company Helen has picked Sweco as engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) partner to build Helsinki’s first green hydrogen plant, called the 3H2 Helsinki Hydrogen Hub. Helen aims…

Finnish firm Sigge Architects has won a design competition for the “Museum of History and the Future” in Finland’s oldest city, Turku, to celebrate its 800th birthday. Its “Squāma” proposal…

A design competition has been launched for a 10,050 sq m architecture and design museum in South Harbour, Helsinki. The development will be called the Museum of Finnish Architecture and…

Sweco is part of an alliance contracted to design the first tramway for the city of Turku in Finland. The 12km, 19-stop line will run from the harbour via the…

Swedish concrete-element maker Heidelberg Materials Precast Contiga and Finnish company Metsä Wood have developed a wall panel made from layers of concrete, insulation, and load-bearing laminated veneer lumber. They say…

The small municipality of Utajärvi in central Finland has teamed up with the University of Oulu to work out how to make its own hydrogen to fuel vehicles and industry.…

UK architect Haworth Tompkins and Finnish studio ARCO have won a competition to rebuild a theatre in the town of Kouvola in southeastern Finland. The plan is to retain the…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…