Petri Heino

Chief Development Officer

m2impact Oy

Helsinki, Finland

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Representing a company developing wood building solutions for areas affected by conflicts and for people in vulnerable positions, such as in a refugee camp.

My organisation

m2impact Oy

m2impact Oy

Small or Medium Enterprise (SME)

Helsinki, Finland

m2impact Oy is a Finnish company that was set up in 2024 by a dedicated team of five professionals in the fields of biourban architecture, green construction, sustainable material research and impact investing. Our focus is on housing and social infrastructure projects in the most adverse places in the world. Our innovative solutions promote sustainability by replacing traditional high-emission construction materials like concrete and steel with mass timber, green cement, and other low-carbon construction materials. Our sustainable approach preserves the environment, creates local jobs, and regenerates vulnerable communities. We exist to help the most vulnerable communities to build back their country greener and better and to enable them to make a generational leap to a more resilient and sustainable future. m2impact works with intergovernmental organisations, NGOs, cities, property developers, philanthropies, and impact investors to implement innovative, pragmatic, and operational circular economy solutions for the urban environment that reconcile the environment and societies over the long term.
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About me

Am a forest-based bioeconomy expert focusing to develop solutions for building and living with wood. I have a long experience of the wood industry, promoting and lobbying wood, public policies and research and development related to wood. Especially interested now of the topic: Reconstructing areas affected by conflicts: the role of the bio-based solutions (CL6, CIRCBIO14)

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Skills

  • wood construction
  • wood building value chain management
  • bioeconomy
  • Policy
  • sustainability of buildings
  • skin-to-skin architecture

Interests

  • prefabrication
  • health
  • Wellbeing
  • architecture
  • built environment
  • wood
  • reconstruction
  • conflict

Marketplace (1)

  • Project cooperation

    Biobased solutions for conflict areas

    We have developed a skin-to-skin -architectural concept for buildings.

    • Early stage
    • Partner looking for consortium
    Author

    Petri Heino

    Chief Development Officer at m2impact Oy

    Helsinki, Finland