This year, the winner of the RIL Award was decided by Matti Alahuhta, a highly respected Finnish corporate executive. Finavia’s ten-year development programme was especially praised for making extensive use of digitalisation and taking responsibility into account throughout the project:
“Finavia has widely implemented digitalisation throughout the entire project, both in the actual construction work as well as in information modelling and data management. This has made it possible to anticipate the progress of the project as a whole and its parts and to make flexible changes whenever problem solving was needed to ensure a good customer experience. Management based on data modelling has also played a key role in the implementation of the attractiveness, functionality, safety and economic efficiency of the project,” said Alahuhta in RIL ry’s press release on 23 November.
The progress of Finavia’s investment programme has been designed so that gradual implementation and deployment is possible in order to enable the airport to operate around the clock, which Alahuhta also praised:
“The project advanced in a very demanding operating environment. The work was carried out in the airport area which was fully operational and in a strictly limited space. Importantly, customer satisfaction has continuously improved as the project progressed.”
