Rakennetun ympäristön pääsanasto, Huvudordlista för byggd miljö
Ympäristöministeriö, 2025
The terminology is available:
- in the Terminologies Tool on the Interoperability Platform
Languages of the terminology:
- Terms: Finnish, Swedish, English
- Concept descriptions: Finnish
The Terminology of Built Environment was updated and expanded in 2024–2025 by the Ministry of the Environment and the Finnish Terminology Centre. The terminology was published in December 2025. It contains the essential, jointly used concepts in the data space of built environment. The terminology consists of around 820 concepts of which approximately 210 are new or have now been updated. The subject fields of this update were spatial planning, implementation of land use plans, housing, buildings, building life cycle and water in built environment.
The aim of the terminology is to define the core concepts related to built environment, suggest the preferred terms and clarify their usage. The definitions have been formed in a way that supports coherent usage of the concepts in different contexts and the interoperability of the public administration’s information contents. The concepts are given equivalents in Swedish and English, and the relations between the concepts are illustrated by concept diagrams. The terminology is intended to serve as a tool for people working with built environment.
The updates to the terminology were prepared in several working groups dealing with different subject fields. Experts participating in the working groups were from the Ministry of the Environment, the Finnish Environment Institute, the National Land Survey of Finland, the City of Vantaa, the University of Oulu, GeoForum, Metsähallitus, Statistics Finland, Tietoevry, the ELY Centre of Southwest Finland, the Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Finnish Building Services Industries and Trade (Talteka). The working groups were led by the Terminology Centre’s terminologists, who were responsible for the terminology work.