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September 1968, but nothing became of this plan. The space was rented in March 1969 by the entrepreneur couple Tauno and Lydia Roiha, who managed their restaurant up to the early 2000s, when the ownership of the restaurant passed to a new generation and was taken up by Markku Roiha. Up to 1987 the
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lifts. The lower part of the water container consisted of two spherical caps, of which the first had a diameter of 40 metres and weighed 1230 tonnes. The second lower cap, with a diameter of 45 metres was built in the same manner, and it functions as heat insulation and a facade for the container.
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shaped water containers, whose calculations were done by computer, which was rare in
Finland at the time. The capacity of the tower was planned for a community of 40 thousand inhabitants. The council of the Espoo market town accepted the sketches for the tower in April 1966, and the tower would
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The tower was constructed in an unusual manner where a central pillar 5.7 metres in diameter and six support pillars 1.5 metres in diameter were first cast to their full length, after which the lower caps of the container were cast on the ground and then lifted on top of the pillars with
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receive the required construction permit despite a construction ban enacted in mid May. A lot of 3360 square metres had been received from the Gäddvik estate for the site of the tower. The final construction permit was achieved in
November 1966, and construction started in March 1967.
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completed by the construction company Tuomas
Savolainen. After the lifting phase a concrete lid was cast onto the tower, on top of which a lookout restaurant with a hundred seats with its own terrace was built. The tower, which had cost almost three million
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The chosen manner of construction cut down on the number of scaffolds needed and minimised the work safety risks during construction. The inner cap was a solid concrete construction, whereas the outer cap was a so-called "sandwich" construction, where a
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Haukilahti water tower was still seen as a usable and necessary part of the waterworks of Espoo in the 2010s. It served the needs of 70,000 inhabitants in 2013 and is the only water tower in the Helsinki capital region open to the public.
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was built in 1968 and is owned by the Espoo waterworks. The diameter of the tower is 45.3 m and it has two water containers—one inside the other—with a total volume of 4100 m. The height of the tower is 45.3 m and from sea level 76.3 m.
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just before she retired, since she worked at the
Virkkunen architecture bureau during the design of the tower. The structures of the tower were thoroughly examined and a repair estimate was made based on the examination.
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was completed in 1982 it became the principal water source for the tower. The overall volume of the water container is 4100 cubic metres, and it consists of two separate containers of 1200 and 2900 cubic metres.
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Haukilahti water tower started in the mid 1960s when construction in southern Espoo was in its most intense growth phase. The tower was designed in conjunction with another water tower in
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disc has been inserted between two concrete shells as insulation. The
Haukilahti water tower was one of the first buildings in Finland to use foam rubber as insulation on a large scale.
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was completed the area was concentrated more to the southern and western areas. From the 1960s to the early 1980s the incoming water to the tower came from the Bodom and Dämman
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restaurant held so-called "disco nights", but the restaurant has since profiled itself more as a catering restaurant and a lunch venue for corporate clients.
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