Mikael Nenonen joins Infrakit as a Key Account Manager

Hi friends, my name is Mikael and I just recently joined Infrakit as a Key Account Manager. I will be representing our sales team here in Finland. Helping our current and new customers to increase their productivity of infra projects, is one of my goals for the future.

Last five years I have represented Trimble and Leica, selling their 3D machine control systems, land surveying equipment and software. Main idea, as here at Infrakit, was to improve customer’s efficiency on site. Those times gave me more insight about digital construction and helped me to see and understand the future of infra construction. I believe that Infrakit will play a big role concerning global digitalization of infra projects. Besides work, in summer of 2020 I graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences with Master of Business Administration degree.

I also have a bachelor’s degree in Land Surveying, and I have been working as a land surveyor for years in different infra and construction projects. During the last two years of my land surveyor career, the industry itself started to change towards digitalization. Besides normal land surveying, I operated with laser scanning, UAV photogrammetry, 3D modelling and maintained data of different work sites. Concerning digitalization, we have come a long way, but there is still a lot of work to do.

I have lived my life in Vantaa but enjoyed travelling around the world. Sometimes you can find me on a golf course, at the gym, skiing the back of a mountain or cruising on my boat. See you on site!

Infrakit’s real-time view saves costs and effort in infra projects

In the last benefits for owners blog we told you about overall quality improvement that Infrakit helps achieve.

With the platform construction’s overall quality is improved by real-time monitoring. Real-time view of the project enables you to fix errors and make quick changes, when necessary. This saves time and helps you stay within the schedule.

In this blog we’ll talk about how our single system architecture saves you both cost and effort while ensuring efficient asset maintenance and real-time data for everyday work from project leader to builder.

Efficient asset maintenance

On case E16 Eggemoen – Olum BIM coordinator Mohammed Ziani says they have four workspaces consisting of two main projects, a side road and an action road. He states that Infrakit has made the interaction between these spaces easier.

“Infrakit makes that connection easier. There are some basic data that belong together in all the workspaces, so I get a simple overview of them. If there is information that must be sent to the intervention road, then it is practical to retrieve files and transfer them to the space that we share with the contractor. “

Read more about this here.

Real-time data for everyone involved

Infrakit collects real-time data from the worksite to provide all parties with up-to-date information on how the site is progressing. This information is available on different devices from computers to smart phones.

” While planning the pilot project, we wanted to take advantage of Finnish experiences and know-how – that’s why we chose Infrakit platform. The biggest advantage of Infrakit evolves in construction process, where you can take the whole project documentation everywhere with smartphone or tablet. It is also possible to get access in every PC without owning any specific CAD or design software. And finally, we have an option to check the design solution in 3D.”

Anti Palmi, Manager of Road Construction and Maintenance Division in Estonian Road Administration, explains in pilot project T22 Torma-Levala overlay

National road 4 set to be completed 22 weeks ahead of schedule

Our customer Destia’s project National road 4 project started in 2018 and will be completed by 2023, the customer of the project is Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency.

National Road 4 is improved between Kirri, Jyväskylä and Vehniä, Laukaa. Between Kirri and Makkarajoki river, the road runs in a new terrain corridor and between Makkarajoki river and the Vehniä multilevel interchange the motorway is in the current terrain corridor.

National Road 4 is constructed as a 2+2 road with a central barrier. In addition to the motorway, a parallel road is constructed for the entire section. (Destia.fi)

The work between Kirri and Tikkakoski has already crossed the halfway point. The biggest project of this summer is laying asphalt on different parts of the road. During the summer one third of this project has been completed.

According to project manager Jarmo Niskanen from the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency the construction of this road has gone well and progressed faster than planned. (Yle 19.7.2021.)

The road is set to open by 2023, but according to the project manager the road will be in use earlier.

“We are ahead of schedule, the new road will be open to traffic in June of 2022” Niskanen states.

According to Niskanen the contributing factors for this development have been great resources and contractors. One major reason has also been the modernization of design and construction.

Project plans have been created using 3D-models, which have been beneficial in furthering construction and following its development and execution according to plans even down to the millimetre.

“With model-based design we’ve saved about 22 weeks so around six months of loose ends have been cut which is also showing on the construction side as better efficiency” Niskanen says.

Read the original article from YLE here (in Finnish)

Infrakit helps to improve quality control for infra owners

In our previous blog we talked about streamlining infra owner’s project management. To help answer the rising demand for digitalization and sustainability in the infrastructure sector, Infrakit provides a cloud platform to help you manage your projects efficiently.

In this blog we’ll discuss quality control improvements in infra projects.

Built correctly from the start with automatic quality documentation

Infrakit ensures that all project parties can work efficiently without wasting resources with the bonus of documentation being completed simultaneously.

Because of our continuous documentation for progress, quality control and handover materials, you can easily stay on top of what’s being done at the worksite and make sure everyone works with the correct information from the start. This helps avoid unnecessary reworks which saves time and costs.

Project Manager Kadi Tuum from the Estonian Transport Administration said “We had problems with the quality of the lower asphalt surface. I asked the site engineer to register all the places in Infrakit with a picture, where the lower asphalt pavement had defects. After a few years when the top asphalt might have defects, it’s easy for me to inspect the site using Infrakit Field app to disassemble the situation that was at this particular location.”

Read the rest of her interview here.

“All plans and real-time quality assignments are handled through Infrakit. This is important for the owner of the project, who wants quality recognition to take place immediately during the work and not with the traditional way of delay. Without Infrakit, quality designation would not only be delayed, but it would also require more work: quality reports and their storage in a project bank. Now there is no need for it, but all quality measurements and as-built measurements are displayed in real time when the points are taken.”

Sami Laakso, Project Manager, Kreate on case Klaukkala Bypass

Overall quality improvement

With the platform construction’s overall quality is improved by real-time monitoring. Real-time view of the project enables you to fix errors and make quick changes, when necessary. This saves time and helps you stay within the schedule.

“From my point of view as the Quality Manager, Infrakit makes monitoring the project in the field so much easier. There is no need to travel 35 kilometres for every little thing when I can just check it from my PC screen at the office. I am not tied to a time or place. It has been a big relief — I can see in real-time how the project is progressing”.

Jussi Laamanen, Quality Manager YIT on case E18 Hamina – Vaalimaa

Streamlined infra project management for project owners

Growing pressure for sustainability and digitalization in the infrastructure sector is raising questions for infra owners. How to control high risk projects from delivery failures, keep the schedule, stay within the budget while maintaining great quality in a public procurement environment?

Infrakit offers a centralized cloud platform for infra owners to streamline their project management.

Real-time situational awareness and progress reporting

Infrakit enables a real-time map view of the project’s progress and status in all project phases. This makes sure that the project is completed as planned, with documentation being created simultaneously. This enables you to build with less errors, reworking and claims.

Kadi Tuum, Project Manager from Estonian Transport Administration says that “from the owner’s point of view, it is very convenient to be able to record the problems that have arisen on the map with the route during the whole construction period. This makes it much easier to identify the causes of defects and resolve disputes during the warranty period. “

Read her interview here.

Shorter project delivery time with savings in total project costs

Because all project parties have access to the same information from designs to any changes of plans at the same time, projects can move forward faster without the need to send information around. This leads to savings in total project costs. All of this is possible while increasing the quality of the project.

Infrakit’s wide variety of integration partners gives you the change to choose freely which software and equipment you prefer to use.