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Biofore House is a concrete example
of a novel idea!
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BIOFORE
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UPM
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MIKAEL LINDÉN
Novel
Biofore House has been
designed by Helin & Co Architects.
It was inaugurated on 6 February 2014.
Openness is the first thing you notice when you step inside UPM's new office building, Biofore House.
All unnecessary obstacles to communication and open interaction have been removed, and the
new spacious atrium, bathed by natural light, connects the building's six floors.
And what's evenmore important, it connects people!
Each and every detail of the new Biofore House has been designed to promote seamless
cooperation between the experts from all of our business areas. In this place, nobody
stays hidden with their ideas because the spatial solutions encourage all to work and
innovate together. We can state with good reason that the Biofore strategy is alive
and well in the architecture of our new office building.
Biofore House is primarily a place of work but it also embodies our "More
with Biofore" principle; our promise of resource efficiency and innova-
tiveness that create added value. The building has been designed and
built according to international LEED standards.
You can see UPM's wood and composite products used
throughout the building, both in the interior and exterior
spaces. All electricity used in the building is green
energy, produced from biomass by UPM. Running
costs are another example of the building's energy
efficiency; they are lower by as much as a third
than the previous office building.
ideas