A number of attractive and informative Technical Tours have been organised to complement the conference experience. These tours will visit sites and organisations of particular interest to delegates.
The Technical Tours cost 30 EUR and will depart from the Messukeskus at 13.30.
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
Helsinki is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. When new residential areas will be built both social and ecological sustainability are strategic objectives just like issues concerning compact urban structure.
Jätkäsaari is one of the biggest construction sites in Helsinki metropolitan area at the moment, and it will be built as a part of old downtown area. Former harbor area will populate 18 000 inhabitants and there will be 6000 workplaces. The busiest passenger harbor in Europe and outstanding public transportation make the area most international and perfect site for business world. At the moment there is going on construction work for building 1800 apartments.
Contents of the excursion
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
FCG is a multi-expertise company that provides services in infrastructure, environmental and urban design, in multidisciplinary training and in developing public services. The company’s clients represent a broad range of private and public sector organisations.
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
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The Finnish energy company St1 is drilling seven kilometres into the bedrock of Espoo - deeper than ever before in Finland. The goal of St1 Deep Heat is to build Finland’s first industrial scale heat plant running on geothermal energy. Energy company Fortum will act as a partner and buy the energy for Espoo’s district heating network. St1 already has experience on sustainably produced energy, and geothermal heat is a natural next step. The process where geothermal heat is extracted is fairly simple. Process begins when two 7-km-deep holes are drilled into the crust of the Earth. Water is fed down to the bedrock where its temperature will rise due to geothermal heat. The hot water will rise up, and the heat will be entered into district heating network. A complete plant should produce as much as 40 megawatts of energy. The challenge of the project is Finland’s hard bedrock and a specially manufactured drill is needed to get through. Still it takes months to drill a 7-km-deep hole. The heat plant itself will be completed in 2017, and it is planned to cover 10% of the district heating needed in Espoo. If the pilot succeeds the technology can also be taken into use elsewhere in the Nordic countries.http://www.st1.eu/st1-in-brief |
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Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
The Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) is a research and expert institute at the National Land Survey that carries out research and development for spatial data infrastructures.
The FGI provides a scientific basis for Finnish maps, geospatial information and positioning, carries out research and development on methods for the measurements, data acquisition, processing and exploiting of geospatial information and co-operates with industry, universities and governmental organisations nationally and internationally.
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
Aalto Design Factory was born from a research project focused on creating an ideal physical and mental working environment for product developers and researchers. Today ADF is one of the spearhead projects and one of the first physical manifestations of Aalto University encouraging and enabling fruitful interaction between students, researchers, and professional practitioners.
Graduating university students are expected to utilize their disciplinary knowledge effectively in increasingly complex and interdisciplinary environments. They need to step out of their disciplinary silos to efficiently collaborate with people representing a multitude of disciplines and cultures, as well as to adopt a holistic view to confront the challenges presented by the working life.
Design Factory brings together researchers from different disciplines
together to explore design, development, and innovation from a wide
variety of disciplinary perspectives and with diverse methodological
approaches. Inside ADF you can find in-house researchers supporting the
development of the ADF platform, the research group MIND, and a bunch
of both visiting and more permanent individual researchers.
Design Factory activities have spread around the globe! Design Factory
Global Network members operate based on the same philosophy and
principles and provide familiar DF-environment for their local
community. The goal is to be the leader in international university
collaboration beyond academic boundaries.
http://designfactory.aalto.fi/#story
Urban Mill is a space, a community and a service situated in at the heart of Aalto University campus in Espoo Innovation Garden, Finland.
Urban Mill brings together important actors to help solve wicked
problems of urban life. It shows how the built environment can be
planned and designed based on actual use. It is a hub with the theme of
developing new digitally-enabled service concepts. Urban Mill builds
long-term collaboration through new solutions that are tested rapidly
and flexibly.
Urban Mill brings urban developers together with residents and other
users of the urban environment. Public and private sector institutions,
researchers, new entrepreneurs and students have a place to share ideas
with the users of the built environment. Urban Mill is a venue for
events and a smart co-working space for entrepreneurs and developers.
Our partners exhibit results both physically and virtually.
Simultaneously, Urban Mill is an innovation accelerator that is
connected to other spaces needed by our community.
https://urbanmill.org/english/
Time: 13.30
Duration: 4 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
Our job is to make the best of the world’s cities, buildings and public spaces, because we believe that cities are part of the solution for a better future. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for modernization and maintenance to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our equipment moves over 1 billion users each day, with over 1 million elevators and escalators in our service base.
Our key customers are builders, building owners, facility managers, and developers. In addition, architects,authorities, and consultants are key parties in the decision-making process regarding elevators and escalators.
Max. attendees: 50
A visit is being arranged to a hydrographic survey vessel at Lauttasaari, Helsinki. The tour will bring you onboard a hydrographic survey launch for a short sailing outside the port. Onboard the depot vessel there is the possibility to look at raw data processing. The tour is organised by FIG Commission 4 - join the tour and spend the afternoon together with fellew peers.
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 40
Arctia is a Finnish state-owned company responsible for operating the
Finnish Icebreaker fleet. We will get a guided on board one of the
icebreakers in the icebreaker base. Arctia's icebreakers ensure the
reliability and safety of shipping lanes on Finland's coastal waters in
the winter. Assisted by Arctia's icebreakers, merchant vessels can sail
safely and reliably, regardless of the ice conditions. Arctia’s
icebreaking expertise is based on modern specialised vessels and expert
crews with years of experience in winter navigation.
http://arctia.fi/en/news/
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Technical tour to the National Land Survey of Finland. The NLS has developed digital processes for many years and now all work-flows has been digitalized. The NLS takes care of landregister and cadaster and also small scale mapping.
Visit to the NLS includes presentations of digital processes in cadastral work and the development in the future.
Time: 13.30
Duration: 3 hours +/- 30 min
Max. attendees: 50
The so-called west metro project is the biggest infrastructure project in Finland. In the first phase, there is eight new stations, and five more will be included in the second phase. The metro will operate on a rail line of 21 kilometres underground in two parallel tunnels. The entire metro line runs through a rock tunnel.
The site visit to second phase metro station/tunnels:
Visitors will see an underground metro station as it looks like in
drilling and blasting phase. On the second phase the metro tunnel and
station excavation started at the end of 2014 and continues until the
beginning of 2018. The site visit location will be defined later.
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