YIT and Are with Länsimetro Oy, have signed an agreement to construct the Kaitaa station on the West Metro line in Espoo, Finland for €47 million with YIT receiving a share of €33 million.
The contract includes building the Kaitaa metro station, a service tunnel with connecting tunnels, an underground air-raid shelter as well as the Kaitaantie entrance, the Iivisniemi technical shaft and a reservation for the Iivisniemenkallio entrance, where a technical shaft will be constructed first. The build will commence this month and aims to be completed by May 2022. The project is booked in YIT’s order backlog in the third quarter of 2018.
The West Metro is expanding west from Matinkylä to Kivenlahti, Espoo. A rail line comprising seven kilometres and five new stations are being built: Finnoo, Kaitaa, Soukka, Espoonlahti and Kivenlahti.
YIT is the biggest single constructor of the West Metro. For Phase 1 of the West Metro, YIT has built the Aalto University, Tapiola, Niittykumpu and Matinkylä stations as well as done excavation work for tunnels and stations in Ruoholahti, Lauttasaari, Koivusaari, Keilaniemi, Otaniemi, Urheilupuisto, Niittykumpu and Matinkylä. For Phase 2, YIT has done excavation and enforcement work for the Finnoo metro station and is currently constructing the Soukka metro station, scheduled for completion in February 2022.
”Our professional personnel, strong experience in rock construction and good co-operation with Are have contributed to the result we were hoping for in the competitive tendering for the West Metro. We are extremely happy for that in the second phase of the West Metro, we will be able to construct the Kaitaa station as a project management contract, in addition to the Soukka station. The collaborative way of working and close co-operation with the client form an excellent basis for a successful project,” explained Anne Piiparinen, Senior Vice President of Industrial and structural engineering of YIT’s Infrastructure projects segment.