Building Contracts: Legislative Reform Will Not Guarantee Better Building Construction, Co-operation Is Key

The quality of building construction has been the subject of intense debate both in the building construction industry itself and in the media at large.

Over the last decade, the renewal of the National Building Code of Finland and now the progress of the overall reform of the Land Use and Building Act are giving rise to legal debate, as well. The goal of the overall reform is to submit a bill to Parliament during the spring of 2022.

One key incentive for the reform of the Land Use and Building Act is to improve the quality of building construction. This blog takes a look at quality questions through the lens of the traditional building construction industry, in which the employers are professional developers, and the building contract is mainly based on the Finnish General Conditions for Building Contracts YSE 1998. Infrastructure and plant construction deserve their own posts about the coming bill, but for now, suffice to note that extensive and demanding