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Ruukki to Supply Steel Frame for New Alma Media Head Office

09/13/2011 - Ruukki has been contracted to deliver the steel frame for media company Alma Media's new head office at Helsinki Railway Station.

Ruukki has been contracted to deliver the steel frame for media company Alma Media's new head office at the western edge of the rail yard at Helsinki Railway Station, next to Finlandia Hall.
 
Construction work is already underway on the site of the new building, which will be owned by Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company. The building will have five stories and space for around 500 of Alma Media's employees. Apartment blocks will also be built just across the road from the building.
 
Ruukki is responsible for design and manufacture of the steel frame for the new head office. Deliveries will start this month and be completed in the late winter of 2012. The steel structures will be made at Ruukki's works in Peräseinäjoki, Finland.
 
Alma Media's new head office enjoys a prime location and will shape the Helsinki cityscape. A steel frame enables the construction of multiform office premises that blends architecturally well into the landscape.
 
“Ruukki's steel structures enable the use of large window surfaces of various sizes,” said Project Manager Heikki Schemeikka at Lemminkäinen Talo Oy, the builder for the new head office. “Neither do the protruding steel beams interrupt the continuity of the long façades.”
 
Alma Media's new head office is scheduled for completion by the end of 2012.
 
Rautaruukki supplies metal-based components, systems and integrated systems to the construction and engineering industries. The company has operations in 27 countries and employs 11,700 people. Net sales in 2010 totaled EUR 2.4 billion. The Corporation uses the marketing name Ruukki.