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Topping out THINK

2023-03-17

Topping out THINK

On May 17, 2023, the raw construction of THINK was finalized and a very nice topping out ceremony took place. Politicians from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Bochum as well as representatives of the building agency and our university gave short congratulation addresses. Onur shortly recapitulated the history of THINK and stressed the collaborative effort of many people who made THINK possible. THINK is 100 meters long and 45 meters wide, the floor space is 4,000m2 of which more than half is laboratory space, the four-story building is naturally lit via an inner courtyard, and the high-resolution human and small-animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners required an unusual structural design in which the equipment foundations under the MRIs are decoupled from the foundations of the rest of the building.

Topping out THINK

On May 17, 2023, the raw construction of THINK was finalized and a very nice topping out ceremony took place. Politicians from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Bochum as well as representatives of the building agency and our university gave short congratulation addresses. Onur shortly recapitulated the history of THINK and stressed the collaborative effort of many people who made THINK possible. THINK is 100 meters long and 45 meters wide, the floor space is 4,000m2 of which more than half is laboratory space, the four-story building is naturally lit via an inner courtyard, and the high-resolution human and small-animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners required an unusual structural design in which the equipment foundations under the MRIs are decoupled from the foundations of the rest of the building.