Year: 2013

The Helsinki City Rescue Department and the Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services will organise a rescue exercise at the West Metro worksite at Karhusaari in Espoo on Tuesday 23 April from 13.00 to 16.00. The exercise concerns firefighting and personal rescue in demanding conditions during excavation work in the tunnel.
The participants will include the Destia/Metrostav consortium, which is the excavation contractor, the Helsinki City Rescue Department and the Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services. The total duration of the exercise will be around three hours. The command centre for the exercise will be at Karhusaarenpiha 3.

The exercise will not cause interruption to traffic in the area. Traffic will be directed locally as necessary.
The public are requested to avoid the area of the exercise site as far as possible.

Further information on the exercise

Jani Pitkänen, Fire Chief, Helsinki City Rescue Department, tel. 050 433 6905
Heikki Kervinen, Fire Chief, Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services, tel. (09) 8162 6890
Satu Linkola, Communications Manager, Länsimetro, tel. 046 877 3392

The Helsinki City Rescue Department and the Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services will organise a rescue exercise at the West Metro worksite at Urheilupuisto in Espoo on Thursday 18 April from 13.00 to 16.00. The exercise concerns firefighting and personal rescue during excavation work in the tunnel.

The participants will include Lemminkäinen Infra Oy, which is the contractor at Urheilupuisto, the Helsinki City Rescue Department and the Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services. The total duration of the exercise will be around three hours.

The exercise command centre will be at the Lemminkäinen Infra Oy worksite office at Koivu-Mankkaantie 1.
The exercise will not cause interruption to traffic in the area. Traffic will be directed locally as necessary.

The public are requested to avoid the area of the exercise site as far as possible.

Further information on the exercise

Heikki Kervinen, Fire Chief, Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services, tel. (09) 8162 6890
Satu Linkola, Communications Manager, Länsimetro, tel. 046 877 3392

The Helsinki City Rescue Department and the Länsi-Uusimaa Department for Rescue Services will organise a rescue exercise at the West Metro worksite between Ruoholahti and Lauttasaari on Tuesday 16 April from 13.00 to 16.00. The exercise concerns firefighting and personal rescue during construction of the metro line in the tunnel.

The participants will include Skanska Infra Oy, which is the contractor for the section of metro line between Ruoholahti and Lauttasaari, and the rescue departments of the City of Helsinki and of Länsi-Uusimaa. The total duration of the exercise will be around three hours. The exercise command centre will be at the worksite office at Salmisaarenkatu 7.
The exercise will not cause interruption to traffic in the area. Traffic will be directed locally as necessary.
The public are requested to avoid the area of the exercise site as far as possible.

Further information on the exercise

Jani Pitkänen, Fire Chief, Helsinki City Rescue Department, tel. 050 433 6905
Satu Linkola, Communications Manager, Länsimetro, tel. 046 877 3392

Agreements for the electrical, HVAC and structure-borne sound insulation contracts for Länsimetro’s station in Tapiola signed 9 September 2103. ARE Oy was chosen as the station’s electrical contractor. The total contract price is EUR 3.4 million. The Tapiola station’s HVAC contract was awarded to EMC Talotekniikka Oy. This contract is worth EUR 3.6 million.

An agreement for the delivery of structure-borne sound insulation materials for the west metro was also signed today. The project’s insulation material contracts have been divided into separate deliveries according to insulation class. The delivery contract for insulation class 16 dB was awarded to Christian Berner Oy. The total contract price is approximately EUR 230.000. The 16 dB material will mostly be used for rail junctions near stations and close to the surface. The structure-borne sound insulation material will be installed under the metro tracks to prevent vibration and noise from being transmitted to the surrounding rock and thereby to the immediate environment. The use of insulation materials is based on calculations performed in vibration and sound-engineering studies.

– “Most of the contracts involved in the construction project have now been awarded. The excavation work for the line will be completed by the end of the year, allowing construction to begin along the entire length of the line. The West Metro project is a major employer, and the line’s completion will require a total of 4,900 person years”, says Länsimetro CEO Matti Kokkinen.

Further information

Länsimetro Oy, CEO Matti Kokkinen, tel. +358 50 347 1558, matti.kokkinen@lansimetro.fi

Länsimetro Oy is a company jointly owned by the Cities of Espoo and Helsinki, tasked with building the West Metro line from Ruoholahti to Matinkylä. The aim is for metro traffic to start on the new metro line at the end of 2015. The company was set up in 2007. The Länsimetro offices are situated in Tapiola, Espoo. www.lansimetro.fi

Changes in excavation times at the Niittykumpu metro worksite: Saturday blasting to begin on 6 April
YIT is currently excavating the site of the Niittykumpu metro station and the adjacent twin tunnels.

According a decision issued by the Uusimaa Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, drilling may be done at weekends, and blasting work may be carried out in the tunnels on weekdays (Monday to Friday) between 07.00 and 22.00, and also on Saturdays between 07.00 and 22.00. However, blasting will be avoided as far as possible on Saturday mornings between 07.00 and 09.00.

Saturday blasting will begin on 6 April 2013. Saturday blasting will allow the work to be completed more quickly. Because of the rotation of work phases, it may be that blasting will not be required every Saturday.

Excavation at the Niittykumpu worksite will continue until the end of 2013. The West Metro will be finally completed in 2015.

Further information

Worksite on-duty phone line tel. +358 50 539 9927
Länsimetro Oy feedback phone line tel. +358 50 377 3700 (Mon-Fri 09.00-15.00)

Destia has been awarded the tender for the contract for building work in the West Metro tunnels between Lauttasaari and Keilaniemi. The agreement was signed today; the contract is worth EUR 16.8 million. The contract covers technical construction work in a metro tunnel segment about 4 km long and the construction of five vertical shafts, including their surface buildings.

Destia will begin the construction work as the excavation projects in the area are completed. To date, 82% (22.8 km) of the West Metro tunnels has already been excavated.

“We already have tunnels running from Katajaharju in Lauttasaari to Mäntyviita in Tapiola. Only about 200 m of tunnel remains to be excavated on the Helsinki side; the tunnelling begun in Matinkylä in Espoo has reached the corner of Nelikkotie, and the tunnelling begun in Niittykumpu is now passing under the Niittykumpu shopping centre. Excavation is also still under way in Tapiola, at Urheilupuisto and in Tontunmäki,” says Matti Kokkinen, CEO of Länsimetro Oy.

Excavation work on the West Metro will continue up to the end of 2013, but technical construction work has already begun at Lauttasaari station and on the section of metro line between Ruoholahti and Lauttasaari. These contracts were awarded to Skanska Infra Oy. Contractors for the remaining stations and sections of metro line will be selected later this year.
Further information

Matti Kokkinen, CEO, Länsimetro Oy, tel. 050 347 1558

Länsimetro Oy is a company jointly owned by the Cities of Espoo and Helsinki, tasked with building the West Metro underground line from Ruoholahti to Matinkylä. The company was established in 2007. The Länsimetro offices are situated in Tapiola, Espoo.

HKL and Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A. (CAF) signed a contract on 6 February for the procurement of 20 new metro trains. The new equipment will be needed for the West Metro, and is intended to run the entire length of the metro system.

Delivery of the trains will be planned to allow operation of the West Metro to begin according to schedule. The first train will arrive in Helsinki for testing and trials at the end of January or beginning of February 2015. The 15 trains that will be needed to start the west metro service will all have arrived by the end of 2015. The remaining 5 units will arrive in spring 2016.

The procurement allows for the potential extension of the West Metro from Matinkylä to Kivenlahti. The contract also contains a further option, should the so-called ‘East Metro’ to Sipoo be realised sooner than expected.

Read the full press release on the HKL website. (in Finnish)

Bus routes in Tapiola Centre will change on 28 January 2013. The reason for this is the construction work related to the metro line and the development of Tapiola.

Merituulentie will be closed for public transport, and the bus terminal will be temporarily relocated to Tapionaukio.

For more information on new routes and timetables, see the website of Helsinki Region Transport at www.hsl.fi

Construction work on the West Metro underground tunnel shaft is about to start in Tapiola in the Mäntyviita area. The work commenced in December 2012 with the felling of trees on the construction site and fencing in of the site. Near the construction area, there is an adjacent area to be used for storage.

The actual construction of the shaft will commence in week 2 in 2013. The work stages to be carried out above the ground include excavation in earth, levelling of the ground surface and the drilling of the excavation holes.

Blasting work will be carried out in the tunnel, and the broken rock will be hauled away through the Tekniikantie work site base in Otaniemi. Earthwork and excavation work will continue until July 2013. Shaft structures and the shaft building above the ground will be constructed in 2013-2014.

In the underground tunnel there is a shaft, reaching up to the surface every 600 metres, for emergency exit, smoke extraction, pressure equalisation and ventilation. There is an emergency exit stairway with fire compartments halfway through the shaft. The number of vertical shafts on the route totals 15.

For more information, contact SRV Construction Ltd

Ville Järvinen, tel. +358 400 128 688, Alpo Asikainen, tel. +358 40 735 2888
Juha Pelkonen, tel. +358 40 500 9209

Länsimetro feedback phone number (Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-3 p.m.) +358 50 377 3700