Niels Bohr Building

We cannot plan our work, says an associate professor and staff representative for 250 employees at the Niels Bohr Institute. He predicts that the delays on the University of Copenhagen's coming laboratories will cost research funding grants. Union calls for a clarification of the construction process.

The delayed Niels Bohr Building at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has been constructed with major plumbing and ventilation system errors that will cost hundreds of millions of kroner. Employees at the construction site say they complained about the contractor at least one year before the government's agency responded to the problems.

First, the new Niels Bohr Building should have been completed in 2016, then in 2017, then in 2018. At present, the Danish Building and Property Agency cannot say when the construction will be ready, or how expensive it will be. The University of Copenhagen is considering refusing to take the buildings.