Through Fabien Hisbacq
Published on 19 May 21 at 8:18
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A new building is hatching on the Auzeville-Tolosane campus. It will be used from 2023 by hundreds of agrobioscience researchers. Explanations.
The agrobiosciences, group together all science and technology in fields related to agriculture including both plant and animal production, food, the environment, natural resources, health… They are already at the heart of the research carried out in the agrobiopôle d’Auzeville, in l INRA, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment.
–Greenhouses, laboratories, an amphitheater …
On this same site, chemin de Borderouge, a new building is under construction instead of two tennis courts. These will be rebuilt soon a few tens of meters away.
The work started in March and is expected to last 22 months. With a surface area of 2,619 m2, it will include offices, laboratories, plant culture chambers and greenhouses, a technical platform for cell imaging, and a seminar room in an amphitheater with a capacity of 200 people.
The building designed by the firm Customs officer & Grabli, which does not yet have a name, is called PAPS-B (for AgroBioSciences-B Pole) by the project leaders.
The operation is part of the project Toulouse Campus, carried by the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. Project management for the operation was entrusted to Toulouse III University – Paul Sabatier and the conduct of operations at Inrae.
Getting researchers to work together
The PAPS-B will be occupied by teams from different laboratories of the FR AIB. The Federation for Agrobiosciences, Interactions and Biodiversity Research brings together the main Toulouse research strengths in the fields of plant biology and molecular ecology.
–Two communities which “do not necessarily speak the same language”, believes Gaël Estève, from the communication agency Comscience. But that is precisely the whole point of this creation. “The idea is to get them to work together,” sums up Gaël Estève. And the synergy will also be reinforced between researchers, teacher-researchers, students and professionals from the agronomic sector.
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–The project is old. The scientific community has been talking about it for a decade. And it is seen as a realization of 25 years of work at the FR AIB, born in 1996. The cost of the operation exceeds 10 million euros.
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