DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINAREBERGET. The University of Copenhagen is building for the future and at the end of September, the Vision 2020 – Medicinareberget project arranged a field trip there. Ten people from Sahlgrenska Academy took part when the Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Science’s major building project: the Maersk building, or New Panum, was presented to the group.
In the project under way with operational and detailed planning of Medicinareberget, it is important to see how similar organizations reasoned and planned. One of the universities that is planning especially for a successful future is the University of Copenhagen, with a couple of large building projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Science and the Faculty of Science.
The New Panum building in Copenhagen is 15 floors high and is already visible as a shimmering copper landmark in the city. On the bottom floor, large auditoriums are being built and on the top floor, a conference facility, public observation area and a faculty club are being built. A relatively uniform template is used in the other floors where laboratories, offices, meeting rooms, etc. will be on all floors. The floors are linked in threes, with large, curved indoor stairways surrounded by glass walls. The idea is for meetings to take place around these stairways and here, one can see into and look out from the building.
Project Manager Sidse Marie Brandt gave the group a detailed presentation of the New Panum project and a tour of the not-yet completed building. All floors were in place, and most of the facade, but the interior is still only cast concrete. The new building will be inaugurated in 2016.
After the presentation of the building process, the group received a presentation by Professor Hans Wandal who talked about what he felt was good and bad about the process around the building, who wants to move in or not move in, and why. He described concrete decisions and planning mistakes, beneficial experiences that the Medicinareberget project can take home and use as well as good and bad examples of how such a large building project can take place.
Read more about the new Panum building: http://maerskbygningen.ku.dk/
The following day, the group visited the Faculty of Science and received a presentation by Faculty Director Marianne Rönnebaek about the major building projects that are planned and under way there.
A common factor for these large building projects is the idea of building the university into the future. Building cannot just be done for a specific need, or possible space shortage that exists today, but rather, conditions must be created for operational development on the very long term.
Ten people from Sahlgrenska Academy were on the field trip to the University of Copenhagen on September 28-29: Gunnar C. Hansson, Susanna Cardell, Olov Ekwall, Bengt Hallberg, Eric Hanse, Lill Mårtensson-Bopp, Jonas Nilsson, Anders Palmquist, Bo Söderpalm and Jan Lötvall. Representatives from the Faculties of Science and Social Sciences as well as the project management group also went.
BY: CARINA ELMÄNG
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