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Groundbreaking ceremony for new SCALE research building -
Interdisciplinary cutting-edge research in production technology and mechanical engineering
More efficient production methods for large components, such as those used in wind turbines, aircraft and ships: In future, around 160 employees of Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) will be working on this topic in the new research building "SCALE - Scalable Production Systems of the Future". The construction project has now started with the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony on the Mechanical Engineering Campus in Garbsen.
In future, so-called "scale-independent production techniques" will be researched in the new building. Increasingly large components achieve enormous efficiency gains in operation in many branches of industry - for example in the construction of wind turbines, aircraft or ships. However, with such large elements, which are also very individual, conventional manufacturing, processing and transport methods reach their limits. The goal is therefore to develop mobile, autonomous manufacturing techniques and methods that can be moved freely in space and thus process components for a wide variety of plants, regardless of their size.
Construction of the building, which will cover more than 5,000 square metres, is to begin as early as next year. Completion is planned for 2023.
University President Prof. Dr. Volker Epping is also very pleased about the start of the new building project: "The research building promotes top-level research at our university in an exemplary manner. It is located at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, but the association of the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science promotes interdisciplinary exchange and creates excellent university-wide synergies."
The new research building will be built in the immediate vicinity of Leibniz Universität's Production Technology Centre Hannover (PZH), to the east between PZH and Bremer Straße. After the construction site has been set up, the actual construction work started in spring 2020 (general planner: HENN Architekten Berlin). Mull und Partner Hannover is responsible for the land management.
The construction and installation of the large-scale facilities will cost a total of about 49.6 million euros, half of which will be paid by the state of Lower Saxony and half by the federal government. Completion is planned for 2022.
More on this in the following link of the portal of the region and the state capital Hannover (19.12.2020): https://www.hannover.de/Service/Presse-Medien/Hannover.de/Aktuelles/Wirtschaft-Wissenschaft-2019/Spatenstich-f%C3%BCr-Forschungsneubau-SCALE
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