Arter Quarter opens
Arter Quarter has opened in the city centre of Tallinn, featuring 44,000 square meters of tenant space. After almost four years of construction, 3,000 people will be working at Arter. Companies are now moving into the 15-storey office building in Arter and the Bob W aparthotel is open for business in the nine-story building. Work ...
Merko is the best-known and most trusted real estate developer
We successfully defended our title of Estonia’s most renowned and prestigious real estate development company for a sixth year in a row – 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, the annual survey conducted by Kantar Emor revealed. Kantar Emor’s new real estate survey shows that Merko continues to be the best-known Estonian real estate ...
Merko tops construction companies rankings
Merko Ehitus Eesti crowns the Äripäev business daily’s rankings of the top 100 construction companies in 2024. To compile the rankings, Äripäev pulled data for the companies with the highest turnover based on their results for the previous year as recorded in the Commercial Register. The CEO of Merko Ehitus Eesti, Jaan Mäe, said that ...
Rae State High School is timber building of the year for 2024
The Rae State High School built by Merko has won the main prize at the best timber building competition organized by the Estonian Forest & Wood Industries Association and will bear the title of timber building of the year for 2024. Chair of the judging panel, architect Mari Rass, said the pervading focus of the ...
We are building the Tartu Defence House
On 6 November, we entered into a design-build contract with the State Defence Investments Centre for building the so-called national defence house at the Defence Forces’ Raadi base in Tartu. The projected net area of the building is 5,200 square metres and it is home to units and institutions in the Estonian Ministry of Defence’s ...
City Plaza 2 office building starts going up
On 5 September, Merko entered into a design and construction contract with Estconde Invest OÜ for building an office building on the Tartu mnt 1 plot at the corner of Gonsiori and A. Laikmaa streets in Tallinn. A 101-metre-high building with 28 aboveground storeys and two underground levels will be erected on the former site ...
Merko continues to be most valued employer among technology students
At an event held on 4 September, Merko successfully retained its title of most attractive employer among technology students. The employer branding agency Instar conducted the Estonia-wide survey of job expectations and employer reputation for the 15th time. The goal was to determine employees’ expectations and the organisations they would most like to work for. ...
Construction of the mainline of Rail Baltica starts
Today, on 26 August, Merko Ehitus Eesti and GRK Eesti signed a design-build contract with Rail Baltic Estonia for construction of the mainline of a Harju County segment of the Rail Baltica project. The contract covers the completion of the fourth phase of the railway infrastructure, which is a segment on the mainline with a ...
Ra Luhse: The keywords for the Tihase project are spacious, bright and presentable
We are happy that the solution proposed in our competition entry matched Merko’s vision of the future apartment building on Sõpruse Avenue. From our highly fruitful cooperation in the past, we were familiar with the client’s exacting standards in project development, requiring that even the smallest details be carefully planned and justified. We think the ...
Oskar Aru receives Estonian Concrete Association student prize
A technician with Merko Ehitus Eesti, Oskar Aru, was recognized for a master’s thesis in the field of building design and construction management at Tallinn University of Technology. The Estonian Concrete Association’s student awards were established to promote and enhance achievement in research into concrete, concrete architecture and concrete construction. The recipients of the awards ...