Research and teaching facilities will be cooled from 2025. A connection to the district cooling network is also planned.
Tuesday 04 July 2023
Posted 4 hours ago by Vanessa Kogler
The large campus of the Medical University of Vienna, which is currently under construction, is getting cool: In order to make the conditions in the complex on Mariannengasse bearable even on hot days, a dedicated district cooling center is being built on the site. The aim is to lower the temperatures over an area of more than 35,000 square meters. The cooling output that is not required on campus flows into Wien Energie’s district cooling network. This will be gradually expanded.
The MedUni campus is being built in the immediate vicinity of the university and the general hospital in Vienna-Alsergrund. It is being built by the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft and MedUni. Cooperation partner in terms of cooling is Wien Energie – which is returning to a historic location, so to speak. Because the property in Mariannengasse was once home to the Wien Strom headquarters.
The new building is the eighth district cooling center in the city. The existing seven locations with grid connections and a number of decentralized systems already supply a total of 190 buildings. The network length is currently around 28 kilometers.
City councilor for finance Peter Hanke (SPÖ) today estimated the cost of the new addition to the future campus at 20 million euros. Commissioning is planned for 2025.
Among other things, three electric refrigerators and a heat pump will be installed. Electricity or district heating are used as drive energy. The district cooling center will primarily supply the rooms of the university’s research and teaching facilities, but also hospitals and clinics.
Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) was happy about a “terrific project” that was being implemented together with different partners: “We need innovative renewable energy solutions.” The managing director of Wien Energie, Michael Strebl, referred to the further plans. A total of EUR 90 million is to be invested in the expansion of district cooling in Vienna by 2027.
The campus will consist of an ensemble of historic buildings and a new building. 2,000 students and around 750 MedUni employees will work there. Preclinical institutes, which are currently housed decentrally at different locations, are bundled there, as Rector Markus Müller explained. (apa)
2023-07-04 08:18:29
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