We Land

We Land is an elegant new office building located in the attractive Ruoholahti quarter of Finland’s capital. The project is our first in Finland.

It is also the first time we have delivered a project featuring a heated glass roof. And installing this complex, double-skin façade on the building’s 14th floor presented our team with a series of challenges, as our Head of Installation, Modestas Midveris, explains. “The 14th floor was certainly the icing on the cake of this project, and required some complex technical solutions,” he explains.” We installed an external cantilevering maintenance structure from steel around the building, before then installing double-skin façade.”

“The elements for this 14th floor roof are 6m high,” adds Construction Manager, Paulius Karvelis. “We had to add both the grilles and the external glass (which is also about 6m high) on top of the maintenance structure.”

Careful planning was required for the attractive copper lamellas used for the cladding on We Land. We produced 1729 of these lamellas and they give the building an elegant, high-end aesthetic. The challenge came with installing these components, which are both expensive and easily damaged. “We transported the elements first, without the copper finishes,” says Modestas. “This cladding was then installed separately on site, on top of the elements that had already been laid down.”

“We built a separate crane just for the installation of these external finishes,” adds Paulius. “We assigned an additional team just for the installation of these finishes, and installation of both the building elements and cladding took place during the evening shift. This ensured we achieved the efficiency and installation rate needed.”

Thanks to our installation team’s effective problem-solving, delivering the 11 418 m2 façade for We Land has gone well. “The installation of the elements went smoothly,” says Paulius.