Relocation of Biology Buildings B, C, and D to the Ecology Building

Institutional densification 2025–2026

The institutional densification project aims to consolidate activities so that Sensory Biology and Biodiversity and Evolution will operate on the third floor of the Ecology Building, while Evolutionary Ecology and Infection Biology and Functional Ecology will have laboratories and offices on the second floor. Molecular Biosciences will remain in Biology Building A, while the only activity that will continue in Biology Building B is the microscopy platform.

Biology Building

The institution will vacate Biology Buildings C and D before 2025 and Building B before 2026. Laboratories will be established directly in the Ecology Building, while offices will temporarily remain in Building B during 2025. For undergraduate education, the primary focus is lab room with an associated storage area. This requires adequate ventilation, a flexible entryway for appropriate clothing changes and handwashing, and ensured security in the facility.

As the student lunchroom in Building B will be removed, pressure on the corresponding lunchroom in Building A will increase. The plan is to convert the currently underutilised computer room on the second floor, next to the lecture hall, into a bookable seminar room that can also function as an additional lunchroom (but not a kitchen).

Ecology Building

Relocations within the Ecology Building are ongoing to physically consolidate the divisions. The plan is for CEC to vacate its spaces no later than 1 September, 2025, after which the relocation from Biology Building B to the Ecology Building can begin. During the spring of 2025, a P2 laboratory will be built on the second floor of the Ecology Building, and the undergraduate education will remodel parts of the first-floor corridor, currently housing Functional Ecology, into two new classrooms and one new laboratory.

By 2026, the undergraduate education will need more group rooms, as several will be lost due to the vacation of Building B.

Vision

The goal is to create functional and well-utilised spaces where divisions are gathered in shared or individual offices, with common lunchrooms and functional laboratories open to all researchers, fostering a collaborative environment for research and education. The vision is not set in stone and may be adjusted over time.

• Vision for Floor 1, Ecology Building (new tab; pdf; 755 kB)
• Vision for Floor 2, Ecology Building (new tab; pdf; 799 kB)
• Vision for Floor 3, Ecology Building (new tab; pdf; 1 MB)

General timeline

Early spring 2025

• Disposal of machines from the soil analysis lab on the third floor
• Relocation of labs on the third floor that will be converted into a histology lab, chemical storage, and lab storage
• Awaiting the start of planning for the P2 lab
• Awaiting the start of planning for the construction of the cold storage room "Isbjörnen" in the basement of the Ecology Building

Spring semester 2025

• Clearing of the chemical storage on the third floor
• Renovation and remodelling of labs in the Ecology Building
• Packing and relocation of the Sensory Biology lab
• Completion of Isbjörnen
• Establishment of a room function program for undergraduate facilities in the D-corridor on the first floor of the Ecology Building
• Discussions about the allocation of storage spaces in the basement of the Ecology Building.

Autumn semester 2025

• Relocation of the sterile/cell lab on the third floor
• The dishwashing room on the third floor will be converted into a workshop
• Remodeling of a lab from an extraction lab into a PCR lab on the third floor
• Cold storage on the third floor will be reorganised to accommodate Sensory Biology
• Relocation of the lunchroom storage on the third floor
• Relocation of the PCR lab on the third floor to be completed
• Relocation of the gel room and server on the third floor
• Relocation of the fly group on the third floor
• Completion of the construction of a P2 lab