Construction site of the Faculty of Medicine Science Centre. Summer 2022. Photo: VU MF
This summer, work continues unabated. If you were to visit the construction site of the Faculty of Medicine Science Centre at Vilnius University (VU), you would see that work is continuing regardless of the hot weather and the holiday season.
According to Antanas Čirikas, the Head of Building Construction Works, everything is going according to plan: “The basement slabs and columns of the main blocks can already be seen. The walls of the first floor are rising every day: 50% of this stage has been completed in blocks C and D, 85% in block L, and 100% in block E. In some blocks, second floor slabs and columns are already being installed. The installation of the metal columns for A-block has also begun”. Work is not confined to the construction of the building, but also includes changes to the surrounding infrastructure, such as the installation of outdoor and indoor drainage systems, waterproofing and insulation of the basement walls, and the felling and replanting of trees according to the needs of the construction layout.
Construction site of the Faculty of Medicine Science Centre. Summer 2022. Photo: VU MF
As a reminder, on 3 December 2021, the official launch of the construction of a modern VU Faculty of Medicine Science Centre will be commemorated with a symbolic capsule laying ceremony in Vilnius Santaros Valley, next to the existing Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics (2 Žaliųjų Ežerų Street).
The total cost of this project, which includes the construction of the building and the provision of state-of-the-art scientific equipment, amounts to 47.1 million euros, of which, 33.1 million euros will be covered by the European Regional Development Fund.
The new centre will have specialised scientific laboratories and operating theatres for the Genetic Research Centre, the physiology, biochemistry, microbiology and laboratory medicine, infectious diseases and dermatovenerology, chest diseases, immunology and allergology, dentistry, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiovascular departments and clinics plus a few more, with a total area of about 19 thousand square meters.
It will also accommodate a number of medical study programmes, a simulation centre for the development of practical skills in an environment as close as possible to the real working environment, conference rooms, auditoriums, rooms for conferences, meetings and seminars, offices for researchers and postgraduate students, and rooms for practical classes.
Visualisation of VU Faculty of Medicine Science Center.