Annual report 2013
Annual report 2013
VVO's goal is development of its environmental solutions to introduce more efficient and environmentally friendly services. In the competitive bidding of suppliers, VVO chose Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj as its partner from 1 January 2013.
The new partnership agreement has enabled the collection of more types of waste at VVO properties in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and other southern municipalities. Collection of glass and metal directly from the properties began in January. The previous collection facilities included cardboard and paper. The new collection services will be available in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen, Kirkkonummi, Tuusula, Järvenpää, Hyvinkää, Kerava, Riihimäki, Nurmijärvi, Porvoo and Vihti.
Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj's website www.lajitteluapuri.fi provides VVO's residents and employees with information about waste sorting and recycling.
The partnership agreement also includes a reporting tool for monitoring cost development and waste bin collection volumes and operations for each property.
VVO's Climate Partners commitment to the City of Helsinki continued during the review period: VVO is committed to reducing the volume of collected mixed waste from the current 64.6 litres per week per resident to approximately 50 litres by 2016.
VVO put its property maintenance and cleaning contracts for approximately 900 sites out to tender during 2013 in two stages. The tenders for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Tampere were released in spring, and the remainder in autumn.
All new property maintenance contracts include quality targets with rewards and sanctions. The number of property maintenance and cleaning partners was reduced from 45 to 15.
Case
As the first company in Finland, VVO-group plc is testing Consti Group's Ideal Pipeline and Bathroom Renovation, a faster method of installing new pipelines and bathrooms in old properties.
The solution is suitable for prefabricated apartment buildings where the bathrooms are situated one above the other and have the same layout. A new bathroom is built inside the old one.
VVO's pilot site is located at Risupadontie 6 in Oulunkylä, Helsinki, where nine bathrooms in one stairwell are being renovated using the new installation method. The project was planned in 2013 and will be carried out in early 2014. In Sweden, this method has been used for nearly 80,000 bathroom renovation installations since 1989.