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  • Basel receives multi-billion euro immune research institute

    Basel receives multi-billion euro immune research institute

    The Botnar Foundation has donated one billion Swiss francs to establish the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering (BIIE). This institute will be located in Basel, more precisely in Allschwil, and aims to develop novel immune-based solutions for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. The BIIE is being set up in collaboration with the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich, with other international partners to follow.

    Strategic choice of location and expansion plans
    The research centre in Basel was able to prevail over renowned locations in the USA, England, Israel and Singapore. By 2027, the BIIE will move into its own building in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area in Allschwil, which is being designed by Herzog & de Meuron. For the time being, the institute is housed in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel. It is planned that a total of 300 employees, including scientists and support staff, will work at the institute.

    Priorities and international collaborations
    BIIE will focus on the development of computer tools and immune-based solutions. Together with the University of Oxford, the Basel-Oxford Centre of Immune Engineering will be established, which will include professorships and training programmes for students. This collaboration will advance basic and clinical research, particularly for children and adolescents in poorer countries.

    Leading personalities and administration
    Stephen Wilson, former Chief Operating Officer of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, will serve as CEO of BIIE. Sai Reddy, Professor of Systems and Synthetic Immunology at ETH Zurich, will serve as Scientific Director. Georg Holländer, an expert in molecular developmental immunology with professorships at the University of Basel, ETH Zurich and the University of Oxford, will assume the position of Global Engagement Director.

    Significant upgrade for Basel as a research centre
    The establishment of the BIIE represents a significant upgrade for Basel as a research centre. The site complements existing research groups at the D-BSSE and the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and strengthens the region, which is already home to over 40 biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the field of immunology.

    Huge benefit for the Basel region
    “The BIIE will bring together a critical mass of researchers who are all experts in different aspects of immune engineering. The combination of their strengths and perspectives should result in a sum that is greater than its parts,” explains Stephen Wilson. Conradin Cramer, President of the Government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, emphasises the importance of the institute for the region: “Basel as a strong economic region with a great philanthropic tradition will be further strengthened by the BIIE.”

    Christof Klöpper, CEO of Basel Area Business & Innovation, sees the BIIE as an enormous gain for the region: “Our life sciences location will not only be expanded by an important field of research, but will also strengthen its position on the global map of the most important research locations.”

    The generous donation from the Botnar Foundation and the collaboration with leading international institutions such as the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich position the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering as a central institution in immune research. The new institute will further establish Basel as a top global centre for life sciences and enable significant advances in immune-based diagnostics and therapy.

  • Dormakaba is a practice partner in EU research on building management

    Dormakaba is a practice partner in EU research on building management

    The European Union is funding the openDBL (Digital Building Logbook) research project to improve building management. A total of 13 partners from eight European countries are involved, according to a media release. The only partner from practice is the Rümlang-based company dormakaba, which specialises in access management for buildings. The other partners are research institutes, administrations and companies from the IT sector.

    The initiative will streamline building maintenance, improve data accessibility and promote sustainable practices, according to the release. The researchers have already held their second working meeting. It took place on 18 and 19 July at dormakaba’s headquarters in Ruemlang. “With our expertise and innovative solutions, we will help pave the way for standardised approaches and the revolutionisation of building operations,” dormakaba project coordinator Kai Oberste-Ufer is quoted as saying.

    The project, which has a budget of 4.5 million euros, aims to transform the management and retrieval of building data by developing a new type of digital logbook, according to the statement. This will serve as a central platform to store and manage information, including construction details, maintenance records and operational data such as air quality. The logbook will be equipped with open interfaces.

    The Europe-wide pilot tests of the 13 partners from Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Spain are coordinated by the research and technology organisation CETMA.

  • New professor for analysis, design and construction brings future-oriented impulses

    New professor for analysis, design and construction brings future-oriented impulses

    From March, Friederike Kluge will be moving from the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz to the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW and is looking forward to this new challenge: “I’m interested in the question of what building will look like in the future. The status quo cannot work in the long term. My hope and my goal are therefore to find solutions in research and together with the students as to how we can design construction in the future. Climate-neutral and climate-positive construction must be approached in a focused manner, always taking biological diversity into account. In the first year, for example, the aim is to introduce young people to the field of architecture, to convey the basic topics to them and still leave room for development and creativity. I am interested in this tension between fixed, e.g. physical quantities, which are irrefutable, and change, which is essential for a sustainable future, and I look forward to researching and developing this further at the FHNW together with my colleagues. Always with the goal of creating architecturally high-quality buildings»

    Friederike Kluge studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and gained initial teaching experience at the Professorship for Building Theory and Design, Prof. Daniele Marques, and at the Institute for Fine Arts, Prof. Stephen Craig. In addition to studying architecture, she completed the interdisciplinary accompanying course “Applied Cultural Studies” with the aim of designing buildings that bring together the knowledge of many subjects and at the same time have their own unmistakable character.

    During her five years at Buchner Bründler Architects in Basel, she was able to work, among other things, on the Swiss Pavilion for the Expo in Shanghai 2010 and as project and site manager on the «Bläsiring» residential building in Basel.

    Self-employed since 2012, she founded the «Alma Maki» office in Basel together with Meik Rehrmann at the beginning of 2014. Together they share the view that architecture gains if it represents a holistic process from the first sketch to the completion of construction and the basic architectural idea is still recognizable in the details. In order to be able to control this as best as possible, the office also implements the planned projects manually whenever possible and was awarded first prize in the “Swiss Foundation Award” for this approach in 2018.

    Since 2013, Frederike Kluge has been conveying her belief in conceptual, design, performance and built stringency, among other things as part of a teaching assignment at the Professorship for Architecture and Construction, Annette Spiro, ETH Zurich and since 2019 at the HTWG Konstanz, where she teaches the subjects of building construction and design consistently focused on the topic of sustainable building. For example, she organized a workshop entitled “The architectural detail in times of climate crisis”. As a result, the group “Countdown 2030” was founded. The founding idea was to develop a guide and to install a countdown clock above the architecture museum, which would sensitize the architecture industry to take bold measures in architectural practice and to develop a sustainable building culture. The group now has over 50 active members, organizes workshops, panel discussions and exhibitions, is active on juries and municipal committees, publishes articles on various topics in specialist journals and has been awarded the “Factor 5 Audience Prize” for its work and has been nominated for awarded the Swiss Art Award.

    The Institute of Architecture is extremely pleased that such a committed and future-oriented personality could be won.

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    University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
    University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics www.fhnw.ch/habg

  • FHNW gets professor for circular building

    FHNW gets professor for circular building

    For the Institute of Sustainability and Energy in the building of the University of Architecture, Building and Geomatics of the FHNW , circular economy is an important part of environmentally and resource-saving construction. In order to further develop research and education in the areas of energy-efficient and climate-neutral building, integral building technology, sustainable building and operation, resource-efficient and circular building as well as health aspects in buildings, the institute is establishing the professorship of circular building. The architect Andrea Klinge is to take over the corresponding chair.

    Klinge studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, the FHNW informs in a message about the new professorship. After further training in sustainable building at the London Metropolitan University, the designated professor worked in various architecture offices in London, Rome and Berlin. Klinge is currently active at ZRS Architekten Ingenieure Berlin. The architect and trained carpenter have established a research department here, according to the announcement.

    In her new position, Klinge wants to tackle “the current challenges in the construction sector”. "This is one of the most resource-intensive economic sectors in the world and contributes significantly to climate change," the professor-designate is quoted in the press release. “In order to meet the Paris climate goals, we urgently need consistent approaches that implement the necessary building turnaround in the construction sector.” According to Barbara Sintzel, Head of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy in Construction, Klinge “has specialist expertise in the use of ReUse components and renewable building materials to help achieve a breakthrough in practice with applied research and thus make the building turnaround possible ”.