RUG awards construction Feringa Building to Ballast Nedam

Labs, classrooms and installations

This will be the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s third new building, after the Bernoulliborg and the Linnaeusborg. It will replace Nijenborgh 4. With around three kilometres of laboratory tables, the new building will accommodate an average of 1,400 students and 850 staff members. Alongside offices and lecture theatres, the building will also contain a wide range of special laboratories, such as physics, biochemical and anti-vibration labs. The building will comprise three connected V-shaped wings.

Construction schedule

The construction of the new building of around 64,000 m2 GFA will proceed in phases. Over the past few months, the area at Zernike Campus has been made ready for development. The first phase of construction will start this summer. This is expected to be completed in mid-2021. When the first Faculty of Science and Engineering research groups have moved into the new Feringa Building after Phase 1, the sections 17 and 18 of Nijenborgh 4 will be demolished for Phase 2. This will start at the beginning of 2022, to be completed in the summer of 2023.