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Aurubis Finland Oy has updated its Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Based on the results, the company has calculated the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Nordic Copper products. 

According to the calculations, the CO₂ emissions for some architectural copper products produced in Finland have reduced by more than 20%. 

Improvements in production have resulted in greater energy efficiency and lower emissions per copper ton. Fossil fuel consumption has decreased since the company has switched to using electric forklifts. 

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are available in Download Center – Nordic Copper 

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BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 für Villa L3

Die von SIGGE Architects entworfene Villa L3 in Turku, Finnland, mit einer Verkleidung aus Nordic Copper, hat den prestigeträchtigen BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 in der Kategorie Wohnen gewonnen. Die Verleihung der BIG SEE Architecture Awards fand am 19. Mai 2023 in Ljubljana, Slowenien, statt.

Villa L3 ist ein modernes Haus mit klaren Linien, das die umliegende Natur berücksichtigt. Der Wunsch des Bauherrn war, dass das Endergebnis neben einem interessanten Äußeren auch ein komfortables Zuhause sein sollte, das Alltag und Freizeit auf natürliche Weise verbindet. Für den Kunden war es wichtig, eine einfache und schlanke Struktur zu erhalten, die auch elegant altern würde.

Die zweite Etage der Villa L3 ist ein komplett offener Wohn- und Essbereich, der mit Kupfer verkleidet ist und eine spektakuläre Aussicht bietet. Zusätzlich zur vorpatinierten Kupferschale werden an der Fassade Lärchenholzstreifen verwendet, die der Architektur Details verleihen und eine warme Atmosphäre schaffen.

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Suomenlinna Church was built in 1854 and is a historically significant Finnish building. Suomenlinna is on the Unesco world heritage list as a unique memorial of military architecture. The master tower of the church is the only one left from the five original dome towers. The key point in renewing the copper roof of the master tower was that it should resemble the old one by colour as much as possible. Sauli Saarinen, the foreman of Suomen Saneeraustalo, Wilhelm Helander, a professor at Helander-Leiviskä Architects, and Jaakko Penttilä, a project architect, in cooperation with the Finnish Heritage Agency, selected the one that most closely resembles the old roof from Nordic Copper. “The architects had a big role in this, the result was excellent, it doesn’t look painted and specially treated, but it looks real old copper. Aurubis patinated the copper brilliantly”, says Saarinen.

“The view of Suomenlinna Church in the Helsinki skyline is significant, that’s why the patination of the master tower was so important”, says project-architect Jaakko Penttilä and highlights the cooperation with the National Board of Antiquities. The new copper roof does not just resemble the old one, but was actually made from recycling the original copper. So the spirit of the old copper roof continues into the future. Sauli Saarinen says that copper is excellent roof material: “It is very easy to handle, it is almost eternal and it won’t ever rust, the copper retains its value even as a scrap metal”. This is surely the reason why the success of patinated copper as a roof material increases all the time, “in the last three years it is almost the only material we have used”, says Sauli Saarinen.

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