Customer value with
managed quality,
finances and time
We have earned our reputation by successfully managing challenging construction projects, including the Amos Rex Art Museum, the Forum shopping centre, the New Children’s Hospital, the OP Vallila Campus and the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.
Solutions based on understanding customer requirements
The development of projects and spaces reflects the values of our customers; no one invests in buildings without anticipating future benefits. We partner the customer and can provide a value proposition regarding justification, scope, timetable and required investment.
We are also able to honour our value proposition by steering the project towards its targets. Our clear understanding of customer requirements and opportunities enables us to transform them into concrete project targets that can be realised by managing design and construction. This all comes together in the project management process, with the associated requirements of knowledge, skills, instruments, and the motivation to succeed.
Continuously measuring current conditions is the key to successful project steering. If you cannot measure, then you cannot manage. Reacting to feedback forms the foundation for steering the engineering, procurement and construction process towards its targets, while transparency allows for coordinating and overseeing the implementation at all project stages.
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Award-winning competency with the HAAHTELA Method
The HAAHTELA Method has helped us manage more than 100 projects to a total value of more than EUR 2.5 billion over the last quarter of a century. We are renowned for our ability to simultaneously manage functionality, quality, costs and timetables.
Anyone can construct on the cheap or at high cost, but it is much more challenging to produce functional high-quality results while managing expenses. Our expertise has been recognised in several prizes awarded to various projects that we have managed.
The Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company distinguished Haahtela as its 2019 Best Construction Partner, observing that the Haahtela Method was suited to the project, with effective collaboration between the developer, the future main occupier and the other parties involved.
Haahtela-rakennuttaminen Oy has been granted the RALA certificate
Kalasataman Kampus
Nominated for the 2020 Finlandia Prize for Architecture
2019 Developer Partner of the Year, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company
New Children’s Hospital, Helsinki
Nominated for the 2019 Rose for Building Award of the City of Helsinki Technical Services Committee
2018 Finlandia Prize for Architecture
Selected as 2018 Project of the Year by the Project Management Association of Finland
Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
Distinguished by the BBC as one of Europe’s most innovative new architectural spaces for 2018
Nominated for the 2018 Finlandia Prize for architecture
2018 Project of the Year, Finnish Association of Civil Engineers (RIL)
2018 Rose for Building Award of the City of Helsinki Technical Services Committee
2018 Concrete Construction of the Year
Gullkronan Senior Housing, Helsinki
Nominated for the 2018 Rose for Building Award of the City of Helsinki Technical Services
Committee and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Easton Helsinki, Kesko Plc
Winner of the 2017 Finnish and Baltic Tekla BIM Awards
2015 Piling Construction of the Year
Forum, Helsinki
2017 Nordic Shopping Center of the Year
OP Financial Group, Vallila Head Office
2016 Rose for Building Award of the City of Helsinki Technical Services Committee
Nominated for the 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture
2015 Steel Structure of the Year
Best Total BIM Project, 2014 Tekla Global BIM Awards
Metsä Group office building, Metsätapiola, Espoo
Winner in the office building category, 2013 Iconic Awards
Vaisala Corporation Head Office, Vantaanlaakso
2012 Vantaan Kehäkukka architecture award of the City of Vantaa
Kotikortteli, OP-Eläkekassa and S-Asunnot
Tidiest Kalasatama construction site, 2012
Swedish School of Social Science
2009 Rose for Building Award of the City of Helsinki Technical Services Committee
Digitalo, VTT
2005 Senate Properties Construction Project of the Year
Santasalo Gears Ltd: Maisema 2000 Office
1996 Steel Structure of the Year
Our references
20+
years of experience
100+
projects completed
+3…-7%
price deviation between initial budget and completed project, with 90% probability
The HAAHTELA Method in construction project management
The HAAHTELA Method signifies a life-cycle project management approach to creating space, from functional space planning to the completed building including life-cycle management. The initial stage of the HAAHTELA Method is based on in-depth, systematic WOP workplace planning using sophisticated computer models, resulting in spaces having set-out targets considering space properties, investment and operating costs as well as utilization rates, which are in line with the customer’s strategy.
In the HAAHTELA Method the commitment to set out targets is transferred from the project charter to engineering, procurement and construction. The level of target achievement is continuously followed-up by real-time systematic measurements and oversight. This allows for necessary actions to be taken promptly.
The creation of the HAAHTELA Method has required new approaches to processes and information management in construction projects, years of work developing new methodologies, the creation of project and site management organizations that supports the Method and the creation of new types of information models including the harmonization of new information models with existing BIM systems.
We provide the customer, in the capacity as a partner, the services of functional space planners, projects developers, project managers, cost estimators as well as procurement and site management organizations. Haahtela is responsible for contracting and coordination of sub-contracts, site supervision as well as fulfilling the legal obligations placed on the entity initiating the construction project. This brings project development, planning and construction under unitary management, while maintaining operational transparency towards the customer. The approach of the HAAHTELA Method differs from traditional contracting models in every way, with countless projects demonstrating over the years that our Method is the most economical and efficient way of creating space and buildings that satisfy the customer’s functional and quality requirements.
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The HAAHTELA Method process
Workspace planning
- Identification of activities and functions
- Sizing of spaces
- Budgeting
Design steering
- Provide cost evaluations and analysis of plans
- Provide feedback relating to cost and quality
- Provide support for designers
- Provide technical assessments
Construction project management
- Fulfilling the legal obligations placed on the entity initiating the construction project
- Subcontracting and procurement of site services
- Supervision and co-ordination of contractor performances
Commissioning
- Arrangement of functional tests
- Planning removals and taking into use commissioning activities
- Training in use of the premises and provision of fixtures, furnishing and fittings
Life cycle management
- Administration, maintenance and monitoring of premises
- Planning the economic use of premises
- Monitoring environmental impacts
Haahtela expertise is at your service
Customers may call on the technical and financial expertise of Haahtela at all stages of the process
Key features of the HAAHTELA Method
Increased competitive tendering
Streamlined site management organization
More efficient operations
Improved predictability
Reduced need for changes
Increased flexibility