Consideration for the environment and nature is a basic precondition for Rockplan’s urban infrastructure design, which is based on a high-quality environmental management program, environmental risk assessment and minimization of harm. The aim is to ensure that environmental conditions do not change significantly as a result of construction.

Rockplan’s experienced professionals individually design each construction project, inspect environmental risks, determine the necessary studies, and develop an environmental management program. We have experience in ground- and bedrock water management at rock construction sites, quality monitoring and monitoring of subsidence.

We work closely with FINAS-accredited laboratories to obtain reliable and high-quality analyses according to standardized methods, as well as comprehensive baseline data for high-quality assessment. Achieving our goals requires precise implementation of design solutions and site measurements based on monitoring and interaction with various parties at different stages of planning.

An important part of our work is to report to environmental authorities as well as to other parties involved in the project. We are actively involved with Kalliotekniikka Consulting Engineers Oy in developing the browser-based environmental monitoring system EMO (Environmental Monitoring Online), which has the advantage of transparent and real-time monitoring. This system will improve each project’s ability to achieve a successful, environmentally friendly outcome that serves all those living in the project’s area of ​​impact, the customer and the authorities.

Rockplan has extensive experience in water supply projects – both in new underground wastewater treatment plants and in the expansion of existing treatment plants.

The excavation of Tampere’s Sulkavuori central wastewater treatment plant are, for the first time ever, using the EMO environmental monitoring system developed by Kalliotekniikka Consulting Engineers Oy. Through the EMO, area residents receive information about the progress and routes of excavation, among other things.

Rockplan is responsible for the design of the sewage tunnels for the new wastewater treatment plant in Blominmäki, Espoo, and for the Suomenoja acceleration and discharge pumping station.

In Rockplan’s experience, in addition to conventional rock construction, treatment plants within rock require special solutions that are an integral part of the plant design. Rockplan’s water supply reference sites cover almost all of the underground treatment plants implemented in Finland.

During its long history, Rockplan has been involved in numerous metro, transportation and parking facility projects. The planning of underground infrastructure must consider potential continued uses of the spaces after the end of the first use.

The first phase of the West Metro extension, which began in 2007, and the second phase, which began in 2013, have been large and long-term projects. Rockplan has been involved in the consulting consortia in both phases. Rockplan was responsible for the principal design as well as rock mechanics and tunneling design in the first phase and for rock mechanics and tunneling design and structural design in the second phase.

As for traffic tunnels, Rockplan has participated in the Vuosaari traffic tunnels and Paloheinä public transportion tunnel projects.

Rockplan has also gained ample experience in the principal, architectural, structural and rock mechanics and tunneling design of parking facilities. Rockplan has been part of the design organization for the construction projects Ässäpark, Kamppi Center, Etelä-Hermann underground parking facility and Erottaja parking facility, among others.