The preparations for the Housing Fair 2012 have been successfully completed in Tampere, and the Fair is now open for the public. The Housing Fair 2012 in Tampere was opened on the 13th of July by Minister Mr Jukka Gutsfsson, Mr. Eero Heinäluoma, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament and Mr. Bruce Orec, the US Ambassador to […]
The 2010 Housing Fair was wrapped up. Amongst Housing Fair visitors on the last day were Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of Economic Affairs and Markku Rossi, MP. The preliminary results from the visitor feed-back survey indicate that 93 percent of the visitors were either happy or very happy with the Fair. The total number of visitors […]
Jenni Kauhanen and Teemu Krutsin with their baby stepped through the Fair entrance gates on Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010. They received the fair catalogues with a summery surprise package as well as free entrance to the Fair with meals and drinks.Kauhanen and Krutsin live in Kuopio but had been travelling a lot during […]
Minister of Housing Jan Vapaavuori and aids visited the Housing Fair. The Minister was accompanied by Special Adviser Tatu Rauhamäki, Communications Officer Riikka Lamminmäki, Political Secretary Anna Cristina Niesvaara, Special Adviser’s secretary Niina Helenius and the Minister’s secretary Iina Kankainen. The Minister’s party brought with them a much needed rain shower to cool off the […]
On 5 August 2010, the huhdredthousandth visitor stepped through the main entrance gate. Sirja Aalto and Peter Timmermans with children Olivia and Felix were pleasantly surprised by the festive reception when they arrived on a sunny summer day from Loppi at the Housing Fair 2010. Pasi Heiskanen, Managing Director of the Finnish Housing Fair with […]
The Traditional Housing Fair Golf event was held in excellent weather conditions at the old Tarina Golf course. A total of 54 friends of the Housing Fair took part in the event. Results: http://www.tarinagolf.fi/portal/
I was deeply impressed by Bruce Oreck’s level of knowledge on environmental issues and energy efficient building. According to Ambassador Oreck, with a categorical decision constructing has been restricted to zero energy buildings in Colorado, Oreck’s home state. Mr. Oreck encouraged the Housing Fair to adopt more ambitious goals than currently in the area of […]
Today, our guest of honour was Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi. The Prime Minister has visited many earlier Housing Fairs and Holiday Housing Fairs, for instance at Valkeakoski in 2009. Ms. Kiviniemi seemed to enjoy herself and spent a full day at the Fair visiting the show houses and exhibitions. She was well informed of the […]
On the 25th of July 2010 I am the only representative of the Housing Fair management in Kuopio. That was a good reason to make an early check round through all the exhibits and show homes. Everything was in reasonably good condition. Our special guests today were MP Jutta Urpilainen, Chairman of the Social Democratic […]
The afternoon was reserved for the Housing Fair 2010 Race arranged by the Rauhalahti roadrunners (http://www.rauhalahtiroadrunners.com). There was no question about it: I would definitely run the half marathon in the series for men over 40 years. Eventually it became clear to me that I was an amateur in a professional race… My time 1.33 […]