Boctok Oy – History
Boctok Oy was founded in 1992. Our first job was the Headquarters of McDonald’s chain of restaurants in Moscow . For a few first years, we were executing contracts on HVP-consultancy and subcontracts on installations exclusively in Russia. Some of our largest jobs there were military village projects in Mulino and Novo-Smolino, where over 1000 apartments were built. Boctok also executed a few independent main contracts, for instance, the HVP-works for the British Embassy in Russia.
After the collapse of Russian currency in August 1998 the amount of contracts, involving Finnish contract builders, diminished drastically. Some projects, still in progress, were frozen lacking financing. At the same time, the bidding competitions for main contracts and the ways of their execution changed not in favour of the Finnish constructing companies, forcing them to regroup their activities in Russia. On the edge of the Millennium, the home market in Finland started to revive, and Boctok Oy got some positive signals from its clients and partners, pointing out, that capable HVP-professionals were needed in Finland as well.
Autumn 2001 brought us our first subcontract in Finland. Our activities in Finland started with installation jobs, and developed gradually into full-scaled main contracts in HVP-works. For a couple of years Boctok worked both in Russia and in Finland, but for the present being, we have concentrated all our efforts to works in Finland. In summer 2003, we successfully completed our currently last export project.
