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Our environmental handprint

Measuring our environmental handprint makes the positive environmental impacts of our expert work in customer projects visible. We measure our handprint comprehensively in large projects using a method we have developed ourselves.

Measuring our environmental handprint makes the positive environmental impacts of our expert work in customer projects visible.

We measure our environmental handprint

The role of the built environment in achieving national and international environmental goals is critical. We want to take care of the environmental goals of our customer projects as if they were our own. We are the only design and consulting firm in Finland that measures the environmental handprint of our experts.

The environmental handprint refers to the solutions or choices made in engineering and design, construction management, or expert work that reduce the environmental harm of the project or increase positive environmental impacts. The development of the handprint assessment has applied scientific research (e.g., VTT) and SKOL's study on the handprint impacts of designers – there was no ready-made method available for assessing the handprint of expert work.

We assess the realisation of 12 areas of sustainable development in the project and our role in it with the handprint assessment.

We assess the realisation of 12 areas of sustainable development in the project and our role in it with the handprint index.
The environmental handprint assessment covers 12 areas of sustainable development.

How our environmental handprint assessment works

The method is based on self-assessment. Our project manager or expert provides an assessment at the beginning of the project on the possibilities of twelve areas of sustainable development (on a scale of 0–100) and at the end on our team's role (passive, neutral, active) in realising these possibilities. The areas to be assessed vary slightly depending on the service area and project.

The size of the handprint is expressed as an index from 0 to 100.

Our self-developed environmental handprint assessment serves expertise, customers, and the entire industry.

The environmental handprint made visible by the assessment helps to grow our role as a partner in sustainable development in customer projects and to spur the entire industry. We learn from the measurements, compile a data bank of sustainable construction solutions, and continuously strive to increase our handprint.

The larger the environmental handprint, the fewer negative environmental impacts in the customer's project.

The expertise of our experts in sustainable built environments and the data on successes collected in the data bank grow with each project