Important laboratory building in Oslo - C.F. Møller. Photo: Statsbygg
18.3.2014

Important laboratory building in Oslo

C.F. Møller is one of seven teams selected to take part in a contest to design Norway's biggest ever individual university building - a new 66,700 m2 research and education centre for the natural sciences faculty at the University of Oslo. The centre will house about 1,000 employees and 1,600 students.
A total of 31 teams bid for prequalification. The design contest is issued by the Norwegian Statsbygg (public construction and property management agency), which has emphasised that the building must be a state-of-the-art research and education centre which can create a dynamic, multidisciplinary work culture. "Each of the teams selected has an excellent track record. They have previous experience of similar projects to draw on, and these are projects which in many ways resemble the Livsvitenskapsbygget (natural sciences centre) in terms of complexity, size, energy and environmental solutions," wrote the Norwegian Statsbygg agency. C.F. Møller is currently already working on two of the largest natural sciences research and education centres in Scandinavia, i.e. the Mærsk research centre, a 43,000 m2 extension to the Panum complex at the University of Copenhagen and Biomedicum, a new state-of-the-art 76,000 m2 laboratory complex for the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The planning and design contest in Oslo will run until May. A panel of representatives from Statsbygg and the University of Oslo will assess incoming proposals. Three winners will then be invited to enter the subsequent design contest and contract negotiations. The project planning contract is expected to be in place by the beginning of September. The new complex, which will be located in Gaustadbekkdalen to the south of the Store Ringvei orbital road in Oslo, will help to bring the University of Oslo to the forefront of research into life and life processes and, in particular, to provide excellent conditions for medical and healthcare research in the future.

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