Work on the Matinkylä-Kivenlahti section of the West Metro is under way in your residential area. Excavation for the Espoonlahdentori entrance will begin immediately, in the vicinity of Merikarhunkuja 8, in May 2017. The preliminary buttressing work required for the excavation is currently under way and excavation of the entrance will be completed in October 2017. Above ground, work is also being conducted on the construction site for the same entrance, in conjunction with the Lippulaiva shopping centre. Information on this is available at www.lippulaiva.fi.
Shaft work will cause occasional traffic on the construction site during the early phases, exiting the site in the direction of Ulappakatu and moving from there towards Kivenlahdenväylä.
In addition, Länsimetro will perform excavation work for the Espoonlahti metro station under the Lippulaiva shopping centre, and build a tunnel network in the direction of Kivenlahti. The excavation of the tunnel and station will have no direct impact on the property at Merikarhunkuja 8. A total of 72.9 percent of the tunnels have been excavated so far. The tunnels and their buttresses in the Espoonlahti section will be completed by the end of 2017.
Länsimetro is using vibration monitoring software to monitor the noise and vibration caused by its work, with two measurement points installed in the property at Merikarhunkuja 8. No overshoots of the reference values have been observed due to the excavation work for the West Metro.
The dust raised on the construction site will increase as spring arrives, and will be controlled by watering it. We cooperate with the Espoo Environment Centre and comply with e.g. the guidance on dust control given in the environmental permit issued by the Centre.
You can use the Länsimetro monitoring service to follow progress with the excavation (seuranta.lansimetro.fi).
Further information:
Länsimetro feedback phone number (Mon–Fri 9.00–15.00), tel. +358 50 377 3700