YIT participates in making a new World Record in installation with the PULS Project at Oskasrshamn Nuclear Power Plant

YIT CORPORATION              PRESS RELEASE             March 4, 2009 at 9:30    



YIT participates in making a new World Record in installation with the PULS     
Project at Oskasrshamn Nuclear Power Plant                                      

The PULS Project at Oskarshamn OKG3 Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden was initiated.
The purpose of this project is to raise the power plant capacity by 250 MW,     
which is equivalent to one large conventional power plant.                      
From YIT, the project is staffed by a total of 250 designers, supervisors,      
electricians, pipe fitters and welders, with 130 of them coming from Finland and
about 120 from Sweden. The project will be implemented in a world record time,  
as the planned installation schedule runs for only 91 days. YIT is the project's
largest installation contractor.                                                

YIT has entered into project implementation contracts with Ahlstrom Power       
Sweden, including detailed plans for the turbine related pipelines to be        
revised, installations and project management, as well as dismantlement and     
installation works on mechanical equipment and electricity and automation       
devices.                                                                        

This revision will increase the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant's production     
capacity to 1,450 MW.                                                           

YIT has participated in the building and modernisation of all Finnish and       
Swedish nuclear plants now active and implements annual maintenance and other   
projects related to pipelines, mechanical equipment, electricity and automation.


For further information, please contact:                                        
Voitto Rajala, Energy Business Unit Director, YIT Industrial Services, tel. +358
400 341 887, voitto.rajala@yit.fi.                                              

YIT CORPORATION                                                                 

Veikko Myllyperkiö                                                              
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications                                 


YIT offers design, capital investment and maintenance services for industrial   
processes and equipment and properties. We are the leading player in            
high-pressure piping projects in Northern Europe. At our engineering workshops, 
we prefabricate piping, boilers and tanks to meet our customers' needs globally.