This page will be used to provide regular updates on the situation with respect to the planning of the Forskarhuset renovation.

2004-05-10
Information for weeks 20, 21
Swedish            English

2004-03-12
Information for week 12
Swedish            English

2004-03-03
Information for weeks 10 and 11
English

2004-02-11
Information for week 8
Swedish             Engish

A slightly altered time schedule is here

2004-01-23
Revised time schedule for the renovations can be found here.

2003-12-02
Information for week 49
Swedish               English

2003-11-28
New, updated floor plans are now available
Plan 3     Plan 4     Plan 5    Plan 6    Plan 7      Plan 8

2003-11-18
Information for week 48
Mediaavbrott:
Försörjing av kall och varmvatten och därmed kylvatten kommer att brytas måndagen den 24 november mellan kl. 07:00 - 12:00.
Hela F-huset berörs.

Supply of cold and warm water, including cooing water will be cut off on Monday 24th November 07:00-12:00.
All of F-huset will be affected.

2003-10-26
Information for week 44
Swedish      English

2003-10-15
Information for week 43
Swedish    English

2003-10-01
Information from week 40
Swedish       English

2003-09-17
Information for weeks 39-41
Swedish        English

2003-09-08
Plans showing lab furniture adapted for 90 cm wide "systemväggar" are now available
Plan3     Plan4    Plan5     Plan6    Plan7     Plan8    Möbler

2003-09-03
The main Fhuset entrance has now been closed. Please use the entrance via MC2. It is still possible to enter via the bridge from Origo.
The old entrance remains as an emergency exit only (and is alarmed).

Extra information concerning water supplies, week 37
Swedish      English

Programme for week 36-38
Swedish       English
 

2003-08-18
The building work is about to start. This will be a difficult time for all of us but we will try to make sure that the disruption is kept to a minimum. Information sheets will be made available, detailing the major work planned for a period of three weeks in advance. The first of these can be found at the links below (in Swedish and in English). The information will also be posted on notice boards.

Programme for Week 34-36        Swedish       English

2003-07-16
The area around the entrance to Fhuset will be out of bounds as from 15th August 2003. There will be access via a tunnel (past the gas storage area) to the lift next to the present entrance but the main entrance should be via MC2. Kemivägen will be used to transport material to the building site.

To see what areas will be roped-off around the building, please see:
renovation_F.gif

2003-06-06
The latest version of the lab plans is here.

2003-06-02
Time schedule for office evacuation is here.

2003-05-19
There will be an information meeting at 11:00 on Tuesday 27th May in F6306 to present the status of the plans for the Forskarhus renovation. Details of the various stages of the renovation, time schedule, installations, what disruptions to expect etc. will be presented.
Representatives from Chalmers Fastighet and Akademiska hus will be present.

2003-03-20
Here is the simplified time schedule for the renovation stages. This shows the times when groups have to evacuate old labs and move into the new ones. The timing is very strict and will have to be rigidly kept to, in order to avoid any delays.
Note that the floor numbers are the new ones (i.e. according to the MC2 numbering). The new level 8 is what is now level 6 etc.
Etapp 1 involves the two laboratory corridors on the western side of the building and the central installation shaft. Labs in the central laboratory corridor that are presently supplied from the central shaft will be temporarily supplied from the eastern installation shaft during this stage if necessary.
Etapp 2 involves the central and eastern lab corridors, the offices, the bridge (to Origo) and the entrance and elevator on the southern side of the building.

2003-03-11
The renovation stages have been simplified and the work is now basically divided into two stages: stage 1 involves renovating the two lab corridors on the western side of the building, stage 2 involves the rest of the labs and the offices.
The present time plan is that work should start on the western side of the building at the beginning of August (2003). Completion date is still the end of 2004. A detailed time plan is still being prepared by Akademiska Hus. I will distribute this as soon as I have it.

Updated lab plans are now available
plan 3     plan 4     plan 5 plan 6     plan 7 plan 8

The excel file from Air Liquide concerning the gas requirements for each lab can be downloaded here.

A "trial lab" is being prepared on level 7 (present level 5) in room 5210. Here we will test the new lighting and also prepare examples of the various installations, floor material, colour scheme etc. The corridor immediately outside this lab has been prepared with new corridor lighting.
It is probable, although not yet certain, that a "trial office" will also be prepared (preliminary location 6102).

2003-01-24
Updated RFP files for all rooms are now available. Please download the ones appropriate for your group and if possible have a look through before the meetings with the architect and Chalmers Fastighet next week.

Complete RFP
General offices, copy areas, group rooms etc.
Studentlokaler
Technical Service
FÖL and other teaching rooms
Atomic Physics
Bio-imaging
Solid State Physics (Mellander)
Physical Electronics and Photonics
Chemical Physics
MBE
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Molecular Physics
General Chemistry
Fysikdator (also student computer workplaces and ET lab)
SIMS
Subatomic Physics
Applied Solid State Physics

2003-01-10
The pdf files of the lab plans for each floor have been updated
plan 3    plan 4    plan 5  plan 6    plan 7  plan 8
These will also be displayed in the physics cafeteria.

2002-12-20
The architect's "final" plans for all levels except level 3 (basement) are now available to look at /download. I have added an earlier version of level 3 for completeness. The new version will be posted as soon as it is completed.

plan 3    plan 4    plan 5 plan 6    plan 7 plan 8
 

Please note that we have to deliver the final plans to AH on 8th January. This means that 7th January is the last date for delivering any comments/changes (in particular with respect to the positions of walls and doors). If you have any comments please inform me by email as soon as possible (f3aec@fy.chalmers.se)

2002-12-18
A "standard lab installation" (for a 30 m2 lab area) consists of the following:

• 2 "el-uttagscentraler": varje med 12 x 230 V och 2 x 32A (3-phase) uttag. (1 "uttagscentral" varje 3m)
• 2 x 10 l/min Blås-N2; , 2 x  Ar (N48) uttag
• 2 x tryckluft uttag
• 1 punktutsug; 2 utsug för vacuumpump
• Värmelast (luft) 5 kW
• Kylvatten 10 kW, 30 l/min
• 4 x telefon- och datauttag
• Kabelstegar
• Nödbelysning

2002-11-01
The plans posted on 17th October were agreed to at the meeting on Friday 18th and are now the basis for the next planning stage. Some small details on some floors still have to be decided and I will contact the relevant groups about this in the course of next week.
A meeting was held on Tuesday 29th Oct. concerning the planning of the gas supply system. An information visit was made to MC2's central gas supply. The extent of centralisation/local supply needed to satisfy safety requirements/reduce rental costs but also keep some necessary flexibility was discussed. Lists of the gas requirements and the solution presented by Air Liquide, used in the systemhandling,  were distributed. Another meeting is scheduled for Thursday 7th November at 13:00.

2002-10-17
Here are the plans that will be presented at the information meeting on Friday 18th October (12:00 in F6306)
level 3     level 4          level 5          level 6           level 7            level 8

2002-08-30
We have been discussing two possible scenarios for restructuring. Both involve renovating Fhuset. Scenario A involves leaving Soliden, Scenario B allows us to keep Soliden and give up more of Trapphuset and Origo.

At a meeting today with the research group leaders and other senior faculty the majority opinion was that scenario B is the best. This is the option that the Dean will include in the
restructuring plan that will be presented to the board of Chalmers AB on September 18.

Scenario B involves the following:

* Trapphuset, floors 1 and 2 and 3 are evacuated
* The Origo 4th floor Library is reduced in size and Administration (kansli och studieexpedition) is moved to the freed space.
* Fokus/Hilbertrum is moved to where our Workshop is now in Fhuset
* Workshop to be shared with Chemistry (KB-sektionen och Kemi/GU) and be in the Chemistry building
* ET-lab in "47 års byggnad" is evacuated
* Computer rooms stay on 4th floor of Trapphuset
* Physical resource theory moves out of Origo south level 6; levels 5 (Environmental Physics) and level 7 (NP group rooms) are also evacuated

A total area of nearly 4000 sq m will be evacuated.

This implies that some rearrangements of the Fhuset planning are required. Rough sketches showing the major changes and the areas allocated for different purposes can be found below. The planning of three of the floors is unchanged: Levels 3, 4 and 8.
The main implications are:
* Surface Physics (S. Andersson) moves to Soliden
* Most of the Chemical Physics (Kasemo) activities moves to one floor of Soliden. There is not enough space for all of the group. Bio activities (ca. 150 m2 lab and offices) should stay in Fhuset (?). The placement of this group is changed (e.g. to Level 5) to allow us to evacuate all of Level 7 to make room for undergraduate teaching labs.  The students will have access to these labs (and ET labs) via MC2 and will not have free access to the rest of Fhuset.
* 300 m2 on Level 6 is planned for ET labs
* One theory group will move to the office space on Level 6.
* Offices on Level 7, apart from those needed by teaching lab staff, will be "spares".
* There are two possibilities for Level 5: Either Condensed Matter Physics/Materials Physics has offices here with labs split between this floor and the basement OR Solid State Physics/Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter moves to Level 5 from Soliden and Condensed Matter Physics/Materials Physics moves to one floor in Soliden.

Plan 5         Plan 6         Plan 7
 
 

2002-08-21
The floor plans (below) have been updated. A new time schedule can be found here. A more detailed time plan showing the different renovation stages will be presented shortly.
An organisation scheme for the project, showing who is responsible for what, is given here.

2002-04-25
The latest floor plans can be downloaded here. I will update these files whenever new versions are supplied by the architect. Remember that we are now using the new floor numbering: old level 3 is new level 5 etc.

Plan 3     Plan 4           Plan 5         Plan 6        Plan 7        Plan 8
 
 

2002-03-18
From now on the numbering of the floors in Forskarhuset will be changed to be more compatible with the MC2 numbering. I.e. level 2 will now be level 4 etc. The moving plans have been adjusted accordingly.

2002-03-12
The latest version of the moving plans can be downloaded from here. All earlier versions have been removed.

2002-02-28
The discussions with Akademiska House and the technical consultants have led to some changes in the removal plan that I sent out previously. Instead of starting with the renovation of the central renovation shaft, we should now start with the Eastern shaft. This will avoid the general closure of the building for 2-3 months and is therefore of advantage to all of us. it does however lead to some logistical problems with planning the moves. Most of you are unaffected in terms of overall final placement but please take the time to look over the revised version and inform me next week of any major difficulties. It can be downloaded from here.
There will be a meeting of the Fhuset planning group on Tuesday 12th March at 13.00 in F6306 to discuss this.
Next week Monday-Wednesday (4th-6th March) we will have the first discussions with the architect. These will concentrate on the office areas. The technical lab details will be discussed at a slightly later period once we are sure that the revised plan is possible.

2002-02-15
Akademiska Hus Huvudtidplan (presented at the meeting on 8th February)

2002-02-06
The latest plans for moving labs during the renovation (so that the majority only move once or not at all) can be downloaded from here(powerpoint file). This should form the basis for all the detailed technical planning and is based on the placement scenario 1 (discussed on 25th January).

2002-01-25
Information Meeting in GD Salen.
The presentation given by Eleanor can be found here.
The presentation given by the architect Torbjörn Edgren can be found here.

2001-12-08

Akademiska Hus is now working on their own calculations concerning the cost estimate for the renovation of the Forskarhus (for some reason this has to be done separately from Chalmers Fastighet who have already made their cost estimates!). The Akademiska Hus numbers will be used for the final investment decision, to be made next summer (see timeplan).

A decision concerning the scope of the renovation will be taken at the Chalmers Board Meeting in December. It will in any case be a major renovation involving replacement of the technical installations. The question still to be answered is concerned mainly with changes to the facade and the scope of the office area re-organisation.

We are now working together with an architect to suggest ways of arranging the new, enlarged office areas and to optimise the amount of light entering the building. We will present the results of this in an open meeting during the second half of January. Everyone interested in the new Forskarhuset plans should attend this meeting. There will be an opportunity to discuss the office solutions with the architect and to look at (and play with) a computer model of the new areas.

We will also arrange meetings with the Forskarhuset group leaders and the technical representatives of the groups during January (from week 3). The final detailed laboratory layouts and placements of all the equipment will need to be finalised at the beginning of 2002. This is needed for the detailed technical planning of the renovation and planning of the renovation logisitics (which labs get done when) in order to minimise the amount of disruption to the experimental activities.

2001-11-20

As you have already been informed by Mats Jonson, the  Chalmers Board agreed on 24th October to start the renovation/re-building project of Forskarhuset. A copy of the email message sent out by Mats is given below (in Swedish).

This means that the clock is ticking from 24th October with a planning/building time of 34 months. A file giving the planned time schedule can be found here (timeplan.pdf).


The actual details of the full scope of the renovation are not yet certain but it will involve replacement of the installations and a re-organisation of the office areas (see below). An architect has been appointed to provide us with examples of the new office space. As soon as these ideas are available we will organise a section meeting to present them and discuss the alternatives (probably early in January 2002). 

Mat's Email from 24th October
Vid dagens möte (2001-10-24) tog Chalmers styrelse ett 
beslut som innebär att projekteringen av Forskahusets 
ombyggnad fortsätter och att klockan börjar ticka - dvs 
ombyggnaden beräknas vara klar 34 månader från i dag. 
GU, genom prodekanus Philip Brenner, har nyligen också 
gett klartecken för en ombyggnad.

Chalmers styrelse beslöt:

1) att godkänna att arbetet med upprustning och ombyggnad 
av Forskarhuset drivs vidare mot investeringsbeslut under 
sommaren 2002 (förhoppningsvis juni) i enlighet med det 
PM styrelsen fått. 

2) att godkänna en investering för erforderligt program- 
och projekteringsarbete för investeringsbeslut upp till 
5 Mkr samt

3) att uppdra till rektor att vidta erforderliga 
åtgärder för projektets genomförande.

Ombyggnaden innebär enligt den plan som presenterades för 
styrelsen (utarbetad från vår sida av en projektgrupp under
ledning av Eleanor Campbell) en allmän upprustning av husets 
olika tekniska funktioner (brandsäkerhet, ventilation, 
kylning, gas- och kemikaliehantering, elsystem, ..) en 
ombyggnad av en labbfil tilll kontor på våningsplan 3-6,
uppfräschning av lokalerna, större fönsterareor på östra
fasaden för att få in mer ljus, mm. Dessutom installationer
i laboratorierna och nya kontorsmöbler. Det är dock inte
en fullständig ombyggnad, väggarna i labben byts inte t.ex.,
men jag tror att när allt är klart så kommer vi att uppleva
Forskarhuset som ett "nytt hus". Styrelsen vill ändå till
det möte där investeringsbeslutet skall tas (juni 2002)
också få presenterat ett mer omfattande ombyggnadsförslag
för att kunna jämföra med det förslag de nu fick på sitt
bord. Rektor argumenterade dock starkt emot att tänka i
termer av ett nytt hus någon annan stans på området.

2001-09-19
The information to be used for the cost estimate of the Forskarhus renovation has now been delivered to the consultants appointed by Chalmers Fastighet. The cost estimate will be an important input to the discussion and decision of Chalmers Board on 24th October concerning the approval of the project. The cost estimate is based on a full renovation. More information on the time schedule for the project will be given after this but it is almost certain that building work will not begin until 2003.

The information we have delivered incorporates the RFP files completed by all involved groups before the summer. A large excel file containing all the summarised information can be downloaded from here ( kalkylunderlag.xls ). The groups are identified by their initials (e.g. AF = Atomfysik). Each laboratory is identified by the group initials and a running number. These designations are also used on the floor plans given below. Teaching and general areas (e.g. chemistry lab, Fysikdator) are designated with S.

A preliminary plan of the position of the group laboratories, teaching laboratories etc. is being used as a basis for the cost estimate. This should not be considered as the "final solution" but shows that the available space can be used efficiently. It is based on the plan presented by Eleanor Campbell before the summer. The estimate is also made assuming that the renovation can be done in stages in order to minimise the amount of time that the laboratories are "out of action". This is presently based on Eleanor's plan from May. There are still a few minor points that need to be clarified but they will not affect the cost estimate. Fysikdatorn, technical service (including store) and the workshop will be placed in the basement area (plan 1).

plan 1             plan 2          plan 3          plan 4          plan 5             plan 6

The costs for the office areas will be estimated assuming that all offices are "cells". This will maximise the number of walls needed and therefore give an upper limit on the cost. How the offices on a given floor will finally be arranged will be a matter for the groups sharing that floor to decide.

Other items being considered for the cost estimates are the following (see list prepared by Mats Norden for price estimate of some of the items):

• Office furniture
• Basic laboratory furniture (sink, cupboards, shelves, white board, chairs, work benches) based on a standard 30 m² lab.
• Fume hoods and ventilated cupboards
• Gas lines
• safety system (card readers etc.)
• Evacuation costs (temporary office space for ca. 100 people)
• removal expenses (offices and moving labs)