“With the new CALEDO structure, we are developing optimal working conditions for impressive researchers who are performing research study on topics essential for the future. The development of innovative solvents, for instance, can improve drug performance to the advantage of all patients. At the same time, this new state-of-the-art research structure will make RESOLV, the joint Cluster of Excellence of TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), a lot more appealing to the best researchers,” said Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Federal Government, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and TU Dortmund University have actually invested around EUR90 million in the brand-new structure and significant instrumentation.
Special laboratories
CALEDO is the acronym for “Center for Advanced Liquid-Phase Engineering Dortmund”. The four-floor building with an inner yard has 3,600 m2 of usable floor space, with unique labs for researchers from the following three departments: Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics. Accountable for the structure’s building was BLB NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia’s building and property management authority), whose Dortmund branch formed a task team together with the Business Center Construction and Facility Management at TU Dortmund University. The building, with its reddish brickwork, rounded corners and ribbon windows, was designed by Gerber, a renowned architects’ workplace in Dortmund.
“What made the construction work so challenging and special, apart from its special façade, was the high needs on technical structure services. In addition to workplace and meeting room, we as BLB NRW have developed highly specialized labs– and in so doing created area for innovative research at TU Dortmund University,” said Gabriele Willems, Managing Director of BLB NRW. The labs are equipped with significant instrumentation worth around EUR10 million that enables state-of-the-art analysis for all aspects of complex liquid phase design.