Helsinki
In May 2019 the Sophie Mannerheim School for children with special needs were completed in the protected Kivelä hospital area in Helsinki.
The old main school premises of the special need school, which provides education in many locations, were found to be unsuitable for educational use. The school needed new premises that would be within safe connection from the hospital area.
The decision was made to build the Sophie Mannerheim school as a modular and flexible building from Parmaco Group. The construction technology based on Fixcel’s patented steel cells offers the possibility of modifying the building according to space needs by adding or removing modules. The steel-framed building is also very safe for indoor air, as steel does not provide a growing ground for mold or microbes.
The Sophie Mannerheim school building, which was completed at the end of a five-month construction period, is a three-story building with a central corridor. The school building is equipped with three entrances, contains general and subject-specific teaching spaces, such as craft classes, music, and physics and chemistry classes. In addition to these, the building also has a dining room, library, and a 300-square-meter gym area. The plan is to organize teaching in the new school building for grades 1-9 at least for 5–10 years.
