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ENGINEERING FOR LIFE

RAMBOll IN BRIeF

SeRVICe AReAS
Infrastructure & Transport Water & Environment Buildings Management Consulting

Ramboll is one of the leading specialist companies in Finland. We provide engineering, design and consultancy services in the elds of infrastructure, transport, water, environment, buildings as well as public administration and business management. In Finland we employ about 1 400 specialists nationwide. The global Ramboll Group employs about 10 000 specialists all over the world. We constantly strive to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our customers, the end-users and society as a whole. In all our assignments we consider the impact and usability of our work including the long-lasting sustainable benets to our customers and the local communities we operate in. Our quality system is based on SFS-ISO 9001:2008 standard and has been approved by RALA quality certication board and Det Norske Veritas (DNV). Analytics, our environmental laboratory, is accredited by FINAS, and has as well DNV certicate. The environmental system is based on SFS-ISO 14001 standard (not yet certied). Rambolls solid economic development and the foundationbased ownership enable extensive and long-term development of our operations and personnel. Consequently, the competent and satised personnel is our most valuable resource. The high ethical standards, responsibility towards society and thriving employees are key elements in our approach to business. In Ramboll, we believe in a business behaviour based on trust, integrity and professionalism. The basis for such responsible behaviour is our values, our Code of Conduct and our commitment to the UN Global Compact, which Ramboll joined in 2007. We trust that our customers and business partners on projects share our ambition to act as a responsible company in a global community and we believe they acknowledge that we may inform them, if in connection with our professional activities, we identify matters or come across information that we consider unacceptable.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Ramboll Finland Oy Head Office: Sterinkatu 6, P.O. Box 25 02601 Espoo Puh. +358 20 755 611 Company ID 0101197-5, VAT reg. Domicile Espoo

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INFRASTRUCTURE & TRANSPORT

The need to create denser, wellfunctioning residential environments within existing urban areas requires engineering solutions that are sustainable, innovative and cost-effective. Diversied planning of infrastructure and traffic is the traditional and nationally recognised competence area of our company. The scale of our planning capacity ranges from small-scale solutions that improve the recreational state of city parks to planning of whole new residential areas. Our services cover the entire life cycle of a project from surveys and investigations through the actual planning to utilisation and maintenance. During the last few years we have been engaged in several major infrastructure projects in Finland.

Our expertise is realised e.g. in the planning work of E18 motorway, Vuosaari harbour, railroad between Seinjoki and Oulu along with Jtksaari area in Helsinki. We continuously develop our competence, technical abilities and R&D activity together with our clients. Our specialists have achieved several awards and recognitions for planning parks, highways and urban environments. The long-term research work carried out by our R&D laboratory relates to utilising of diverse geomaterials and developing stabilisation methods, and has given us a signicant status as the forerunner of geotechnical engineering in Finland.

AIRPORT ENGINEERING BRIDGE ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING InFRAStRUctURe ASSet MAnAgeMent LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LOGISTICS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING PORTS AND MARINE STRUCTURES pROJECT MANAGEMENT RAILWAY ENGINEERING RISK AND ASSET MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC ENGINEERING URBAN AND RETAIL PLANNING WIND ENERGY

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WATeR & eNVIRONMeNT

Global challenges including urbanisation, climate change and extreme weather conditions make the need for preserving our natural resources increasingly evident. In Ramboll, we have multidisciplinary expertise and experience from both developing and industrialised markets. Increasingly, the environmental and social dimensions of projects are decisive for their implementation. One of our spearhead services is urban water management. Our water supply services stretch from general planning to engineering and planning water networks and plants. We are uniquely qualied to undertake the water-related challenges faced by our customers and society at large. We are on the national front-line of specialists in urban planning, land

use planning and environmental impact assessments. Sustainable land use planning and development is about creating possibilities and environments which enable us to live safe, healthy and fullling lives without damaging the opportunities for future generations to do the same. Our competence covers a wide range of assignments from provincial and master plans to town plans. We also produce different kinds of development plans and surveys. Finlands biggest environmental laboratory Ramboll Analytics in Lahti offers an especially wide selection of analytical services for different environmental, material and food samples, along with emission and noise measurement services.

AcOUStIcS And nOISe AIR QUALIty cLIMAte chAnge eMISSIOn MeASUReMentS ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE envIROnMentAL IMpAct ASSeSSMent envIROnMentAL LABORAtORy SeRvIceS envIROnMentAL LAW And SURveyS LAndScApe ARchItectURe LAnd USe pLAnnIng WASte MAnAgeMent WAteR SUppLy WAteR ReSOURceS MAnAgeMent SOIL And gROUndWAteR

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BuIlDINGS

Our ambition is to design safe and healthy buildings for people. Well managed life cycle of buildings and the requirements of sustainable development are built in all our projects. Our experts also participate in important sustainable development projects. Co-operation, quality of design and development of innovative solutions play an important role in all our assignments. Together with our long experience as well as modern design software and techniques, we are well equipped to help our clients to achieve their targets.

We design both new construction as well as renovation and refurbishment projects. Our projects include commercial offices, public buildings, industrial buildings or demanding residential buildings. Our service supply covers the entire life cycle of a building starting from the rst phases of design to maintenance and renovation of a nished building and nally to demolition of the building and recycling of materials. In addition we offer facilities management and safety solutions provided by RambollFM.

ACOUSTICS ARCHITECTURE DIGITAL DESIGN DUE DILIGENCE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING INDOOR CLIMATE AND MOISTURE SURVEYS LIGHTING DESIGN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES

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SUPPORTING PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT

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MANAGeMeNT CONSulTING

In todays fast-paced world, the pressure is on to deliver the very best for both organisations and individuals. The ways in which we choose to manage our people, businesses and society have great impact on the end results. By optimising the use of human assets and economic resources in the best possible way, employees and organisations are able to excel, perform and deliver outstanding solutions. As a leading European consultant for the public sector, we are able to offer our clients internationally

experienced specialists with support of our entire, widely competent organisation. Our products are developed especially for public sector and our methods are qualied in several countries. Ramboll Management Consulting offers management consulting and training services together with evaluation and research services for both the public and the private sector. Our service area covers developing of management systems, organisations, personnel, and processes, and the software supporting them.

ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND EVALUATION TRAINING AND COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT

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INNOVATIONS FOR BuSINeSS AND peOple

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THe WeST MeTRO eXTeNSION pROVIDeS A FAST puBlIC TRANSpORTATION CONNeCTION FROM MATINKYl TO KIVeNlAHTI CuSTOMeR: CITY OF ESpOO
Metro traffic in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area continues to the west, and in Espoo the metros extension from Matinkyl to Kivenlahti will be entirely inside a tunnel. Once completed, the West Metro will transport over 100,000 passengers a day. Ramboll is strongly involved in West Metro track alignment and the stations project design. In addition to leading the consulting team, we are responsible for the projects traffic and rail engineering, municipal engineering and temporary traffic arrangements, as well as risk management and safety planning.

ABSOIlS: LIFe-CYCle THINKING AND THe DeVelOpMeNT OF ReCYClING IN INFRASTRuCTuRe CONSTRuCTION CuSTOMeR: CITIeS OF HelSINKI, ESpOO AND VANTAA
The purpose of the Absoils project is to detect poor quality surplus masses, such as soft clays, and transform them into material suitable for civil construction. At the same time, we can reduce long distance transportation of masses and their accumulation as waste. The use of virgin rock materials, such as crushed rock and gravel, can be concentrated only on those construction destinations, where there are no alternatives to their use. Ramboll is in charge of the projects laboratory and measurement services in addition to studying soil properties of pilot sites. We have produced instructions for construction work, quality control and monitoring. We have also been responsible for producing and presenting the metropolitan areas material service system model, as well as informing about it.

SAFeR TRAFFIC IN THE CITY CENTRE OF LAHTI CuSTOMeR: CITY OF lAHTI


The principle of developing Lahtis city centre is to concentrate vehicle traffic on the city centres ring road and to change the area inside the ring road into one dedicated to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. Ramboll worked as a consultant for Lahtis downtown traffic research, where the traffic solutions were determined and their feasibility and effects were conrmed. The report prepared to support the design and planning of the city centre also presented necessary street environment changes.

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THe ReQuIReMeNTS FOR SuSTAINABle DeVelOpMeNT ARe TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THe HOuSe OF TRAVel AND TRANSpORTATION CuSTOMeR: SRV CONSTRuCTION LTD

Helin & Co. Architects

A seven-oor office building and a parking house of 1,500 parking spaces is being built to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. The office building has a total surface area of approximately 70,000 square metres. Ramboll is in charge of the offices structural design. The aim for the office building is an A-energy class as well as environmental LEED gold-level certication.

THe WORlDS lARGeST ReCYCleD Fuel BOIleR IMpROVeS A pOWeR plANTS uSe OF Fuel CuSTOMeR: MeTSO pOWeR OY
Metso supplies the worlds largest recycled fuel boiler in its eld to Vsters Mlaenergis thermal plant in Sweden. The new boiler makes use of recycled fuel and biofuel from municipal waste. Ramboll designs the boilers steel frame as we have done already for several of Metsos other boiler plants.

HISTORICAL GlORY AND MODeRN FuNCTIONAlITY ARE COMBINED AT JYVSKYl CITY HAll CuSTOMeR: CITY OF JYVSKYl
Constructed in 1899, the renovation of Jyvskyls culturally and historically valuable city hall has faced not only indoor air problems, but also issues like re and exit route requirements. Ramboll has been in charge of the challenging renovation projects construction design, designing the strengthening of the foundations, in addition to construction and eld measurements.

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EIA OF THe TAMMeRVOIMAS NeW COMMeRCIAl pOWeR AND BIOGAS plANT RATeD AS AWARD-WINNING CuSTOMeR: TAMpeRe ReGIONAl SOlID WASTe MANAGeMeNT LTD. AND TAMpeRe POWeR UTIlITY
The waste of the residents of Pirkanmaa will be used in the future to generate heating and electricity in Tamperes newly-built commercial power plant. Ramboll prepared the projects environmental impact assessment, including assessments for four possible locations. During the EIA procedure key areas of environmental impact were determined, including the impact on nature and key effects on people in addition to the areas social and economic development. The EIA report won the EIA of the year award in Finland in year 2012.

THe MeTROpOlITAN AReA ADApTING TO ClIMATe CHANGe STRATeGY CuSTOMeR: HelSINKI ReGION ENVIRONMeNTAl SeRVICeS AuTHORITY
By adapting to climate change, we can prevent and mitigate its adverse effects and nd ways to make use of its benecial effects. The cities in the metropolitan area and the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority have prepared a draft of the climate change adaptation strategy that focuses on the built urban environment. Ramboll evaluates the effects of the drafts procedures and inspects the costs and benets of the ooding protection situated in the construction environment. The focuses of the evaluation are on both economic and social effects, as well as effects on the natural environment and biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, noise levels and health, among others.

eSTABlISHING LAHTIS ReGIONAl lOGISTICS CeNTRe CuSTOMeR: CITY OF lAHTI


Ramboll Management Consulting is in charge of all the feasibility and design work for the establishment of the Pijt-Hme regional logistics centre. The logistics cetre brings together all design, development and resource procurement and is in charge of all the transport of people and goods. The wide area enables substantial improvements in organisation and bigger cost savings than would be possible in one municipality. The result of the feasibility project is the centres detailed implementation plan. The project will be executed together with Rambolls logistics experts.

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Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company employing close to 10 000 experts with a signicant presence in Northern Europe, Russia, India and the Middle East. In Finland we employ about 1 400 experts nationwide. We provide engineering, design and consultancy services in the elds of infrastructure, environment, buildings as well as public administration and business management. In Ramboll, we are committed to a business behaviour based on trust, integrity and professionalism. The basis for such responsible behaviour is our values, our Code of Conduct and our commitment to the UN Global Compact.

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