Meet our new General Manager of Finland!

Meet our new General Manager of Finland!

As a General Manager of Finland, Janne Paitsola takes over the overall responsibility for sales and key accounts in Finland. Janne has extensive, over a ten-year-experience, in the infrastructure industry, and has previously worked at Avesco Oy / Sitech Finland.

“Project information management is a hot topic today and Infrakit is a pioneer in its field. It’s no surprise that the growth rate of Infrakit has been rapid in recent years”, says Paitsola.

As an expert in his field, Janne brings systematic approach to customer relationship management and sales development.

Welcome Janne, we are happy to have you as a part of our team!

Linda Hakala
March 16, 2020

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Infrakit OFFICE™ – Version 3.6.2

Infrakit OFFICE™ – Version 3.6.2

Infrakit OFFICE™ Version 3.6.2 is now live! The new release contains many new usability improvements such as: possibility to zoom and pan cross section also on mobile, autosnap for measurement functions, new functions on map file pop-up, new password policy, and force 360 photo viewer –find out the highlights of the new release below.

Autosnap for measurement functions

New version introduces auto snap feature. Precise measurements are enabled by snap-to-point and snap-to-line functions, integrated to line and area measurement tools.

New functions on map file pop-up

Now it is possible to locate file of visualized model from map view. This is done by right-clicking the target model and selecting either ”Select in files tree” or ”Open in files page” function. Same pop-up menu has another new function that allows direct download of file by selecting ”Download”.

New password policy

New requirement is to include both upper and lower case characters, and minimum one number, when setting or changing the user password.

Force 360 photo viewer

Unfortunately, not all photos come with metadata that indicate photos to be 360. Now it is possible to force Infrakit to use 360 viewer for photos that are placed in folder that start by folder name ”360_”.

Read the full release notes here.

Linda Hakala
March 2, 2020

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Meet Sakari Maaranen – our VP of engineering!

Meet Sakari Maaranen – our VP of engineering!

Next in our introduction series comes Infrakit’s VP of engineering, Sakari Maaranen. He is a deep-rooted professional in software business; his experience ranges from being a freelancer to consultancy and managing a software company. At Infrakit he started in the spring of 2019 after hearing about its interesting story. “I definitely made the right choice, here at Infrakit we have an exceptionally good group full of driven people”, Maaranen states.

Maaranen’s area of responsibility contains developing Infrakit’s software together with his teammates. “In an activity like this, everything comes down to processes; the way we function and develop the software will show in the quality of all everything we do and accomplish”, he explains. Software developing is to a large extent describing and documenting processes and the product, which is done by the whole 10-person team with Maaranen on the lead. “I feel that I get to fully use my vast expertise and knowledge about software business in my current job at Infrakit”, he sums up. Maaranen finds it interesting how groundbreaking work Infrakit does: the digitalization of infra building is taking baby steps and Infrakit is in the front row introducing new ways of doing things – there really aren’t other companies taking the same approach.

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Infrakit BIM Services? – Meet our BIM-team!

Infrakit BIM Services? – Meet our BIM-team!

Photo: Infrakit BIM-team Visa Hokkanen, Ilkka Tieaho, Tero Maijala and Atte Kajander

We are happy to start our introduction series with our brand-new BIM-team, and in particularly with two true professionals in the field of BIM: VP of BIM services, Ilkka Tieaho (second on the left) and Senior BIM Specialist, Tero Maijala (third on the left). Even though both of them started their journey at Infrakit recently, working with Infrakit isn’t unfamiliar to them – in their previous careers both Tieaho and Maijala gained experience working in projects where Infakit was used. Together with the rest of the team one of their primary goals is to serve as a link between the clients and the remaining Infrakit staff. With their previous experience working on the customers’ side, they have gained valuable knowledge of the challenges and advantages that clients may face with Infrakit.

Tieaho, who started last August, says it has been a pleasure to notice how smoothly he was welcomed to his new work community. His working history contains a great deal of experience from designing and consulting, especially in the designing phase of construction projects. ”I see coming to work at Infrakit as a great opportunity to create something new. It has also been interesting to see how working with BIM looks like from a tech company’s point of view”, Tieaho reflects. One of the crucial strengths of Infrakit in his opinion is the company’s flexibility: ”We must continue to provide fast and close support to our clients.”

One of our most recent employees is Tero Maijala, who started his work last November. He says that moving over from working as a land surveying specialist at a worksite, to the other side of the table has felt like a natural choice. ” [before] I was building infra and now I’m beginning to build Infrakit – building things hasn’t stopped.” In his previous job Maijala has worked in close proximity with Infrakit almost daily since the beginning of the 2010s. In the period of the last six months he has seen a change in how the client’s viewpoint has become a stronger priority and wanted to be a part of the solution. ”The thing that me and Tero have in common is that we both believe Infrakit to be an excellent and functional solution in designing and construction projects”, Tieaho sums it up.

The mission of the recently created BIM-team is to help clients use Infrakit in their daily work. Vital in achieving this goal is organizing training sessions, providing consultancy and developing new and more functional customs so that our clients will gain added value with Infakit. Their first task has been contacting current clients and mapping out their needs, but Tieaho as well as Maijala both envision that in the future the BIM-team has also a lot to offer to the technical development.

Linda Hakala
January 14, 2020

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Infrakit and year 2019 – it’s a wrap!

Infrakit and year 2019 – it’s a wrap!

Year 2019 has been a big success for Infrakit. We opened offices in five new countries, including large markets like France, Germany and Australia, all while staying profitable. Our team grew to a total of 32 construction and SaaS professionals.

Overall, digitalization of the infrastructure construction industry is progressing worldwide, with many governments pushing for requirements and legislation to adopt of BIM, to improve infrastructure construction quality and efficiency.

Infrakit BIM cloud enables an efficient digital production process for construction companies, connecting heavy machinery and all construction project stakeholders with up to date designs and real time view to site progress. In year 2019 we were especially delighted to see our customers win more projects with the competitive advantage they gained by moving faster than their competition.

For year 2020, we are looking to further expand our operations to new countries and to solidify our position as the leading SaaS provider for the global infrastructure construction industry.

On behalf of the Infrakit team, a big thank you to all of our customers and partners for year 2019. I’m wishing you a happy and successful year 2020!

Teemu Kivimäki CEO and founder

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