University of Lodz expanding and modernising

2010-02-08

University of Lodz (UL) is putting up new buildings and modernising a number of existing facilities, according to Gazeta Wyborcza.
It is currently revamping a complex on Tamka Street, which will contain 41 classrooms and laboratories, a lecture theatre with room for up to 156 students, as well as four lecture halls and eight IT labs. In turn, a building serving as the seat of the Institutes of Biophysics and Biochemistry as well as the Department of Neurobiology and Cytophysiology will be built from scratch on Pomorska Street. The edifice will contain a total of 78 classrooms, practice rooms and laboratories as well as six lecture rooms and a lecture theatre capable of holding up to 180 students as well as science-teaching labs and computer labs. The deadline for completing the investment is mid 2010. On the other hand, the new seat of the Faculty of Philolology will be built at the intersection of Pomorska, Skladowa, Narutowicza, Konstytucyjna and Uniwersytecka Streets. The investment will cost approx. PLN 120m (€29.4m) and the construction work will be concluded by 2013.
Meanwhile, renovation work is being carried out on the buildings housing the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics on Pomorska Street as well as in two buildings on Kilinskiego Street which will serve as the seat of the Informatics-Econometrics Centre of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of UL. They will contain four seminar rooms, 23 lecture halls and classrooms, 11 informatics labs and a specialist library. The renovation work is to be completed by the end of September or the beginning of October 2010 and will cost close to PLN 26m (€6.4m).

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