YIT promotes the urban development of sustainable, comfortable and safe cities by building long-term and attractive residential environments. Read more here.
Sustainability
Being the largest Finnish and a significant North European development and construction company, we recognize our responsibility to operate sustainably.
Sustainability is increasingly important to our customers and investors, and we want to lead the market by finding and providing solutions together with our customers. With over 100 years of expertise in building the foundations for a better living, our goal is to make sustainable housing and living easy for people, businesses and society. Through our choices and actions, we want to mitigate climate change and do responsible business every day.
We commit to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.
Material themes - foundation for our sustainability
Results of a materiality assessment serve as the guideline for our sustainability and corporate responsibility work. Explore material themes and our performance in each theme.
Our current sustainability topics
How to identify labor exploitation?
All of those operating in the construction industry must work together in order to implement responsible subcontracting. We have made common guidelines for all construction sector operators, which help each one of us in identifying possible labor exploitation at work sites.