Construction of New Chemistry Laboratory Building on Schedule
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Even in times of the coronavirus crisis, building work on the campus of TU Dortmund University continues: In a huge hole on Otto-Hahn-Strasse, the foundations are currently being cast for the new laboratory building of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. A six-floor building with floor space of about 3,300 m² will be erected here by the end of 2022.
The hole excavated for the laboratory building is up to 14 meters deep. The edge length is 55 meters and 25,000 m³ of soil have been removed. “Building work is proceeding on schedule so far, despite the coronavirus crisis,” reports Jürgen Palgen from the Department of Construction and Facility Management of TU Dortmund University. He is supervising the new building.
The laboratory buildung will house two large areas for practical work as well as research laboratories and offices for inorganic and organic chemistry on the main floor space of about 3,300 m². The height of the six-floor building and its brick facade mirror the neighboring replacement building for physics/chemistry, which the faculties moved into in 2015. The main entrance to the building is on Otto-Hahn-Strasse. There is also an entrance on the north side for staff and students coming from the existing chemistry/physics building.
Building progress can be followed via webcam
After the demolition of Pavilion 11 was completed last year, which up until now stood on the site of the new laboratory building, structural work commenced this spring. The owner, BLB NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia’s building and real estate management authority) anticipates a total building time of around three years. The construction of the new laboratory building is a further important element of the “Decade Project”, in the framework of which the chemistry and physics buildings will be upgraded or new ones built in the course of about ten years.
© Martina Hengesbach/TU Dortmund
At the present time, more or less all that can be seen of the new building is a gigantic hole. So that soil does not slip down into it, bored pile walls were erected before excavation began: For this, the construction company first of all drilled holes almost 20 meters deep and 90 centimeters in diameter around the edge of the site to be excavated and filled them with baskets of reinforcing steel and concrete. This produced a row of piles that secures the excavation pit.
How building work is progressing can be followed via webcam.
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