Building the Multiscale Imaging Centre
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… and from the north-west.© WWU/Erk Wibberg 
January 2019: Having built a laboratory prototype, the planning team is finalizing the last details concerning the equipment to be installed in the labs. Of particular importance are functionality and safety issues.© WWU / Foto: E. Wibberg 
As to the lab’s appearance, the floor covering will be anthracite, and a glass front will separate the documentation zone with PC work stations (foreground) from the lab area.© WWU / Foto: E. Wibberg 
The building’s exterior has also changed its appearance further. The photo shows a view from Röntgenstraße, on which the main entrance will be located (view from the south-west).© WWU / Foto: E. Wibberg 
The building’s façade will have the clinker brick design typical of the Münsterland region (view of Röntgenstraße from the south-east).© WWU / Foto: E. Wibberg 
September 2018: Workers put the first windows into the façade of the Multiscale Imaging Centre.© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
Construction work in one of the atriums inside the building© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
This atrium, open to the sky, lets in the daylight for the adjacent rooms.© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
A further atrium will be covered with a glass roof later.© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
A view from the second floor, showing the two atriums on the right and the left © CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
The future laboratory area© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
The auditorium, in which lectures will be given and symposiums held© CiM / Foto: E. Wibberg 
June 2018: a bird's eye view of the building site© Gerber Architekten 
April 2018: With the addition of a second crane, the shell construction is growing upwards fast. The workers on the site are currently completing the first storey. Three more are to follow.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
The atrium in the interior of the building takes shape. At the moment it provides space for the base of the second crane.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
The building workers use prefabricated components to make the formwork for the many shafts for technical equipment and lifts. © CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
The shell construction of the auditorium has already been completed. In future, it will have space for almost 200 people.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
February 2018: The basement on the west side is finished. The precision mechanics workshop will be in these rooms later.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
The ground floor is also taking shape. There, the construction workers are currently building a stable floor slab.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
Many steel struts increase the tensile strength of the concrete and thus stabilize the building. The free space in the middle will form the atrium.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
In the meantime, two cranes have also started operation.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
November 2017: The basement on the north side of the Multiscale Imaging Centre has been given an especially thick concrete foundation.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
The reason is that a particle accelerator will be standing in the basement later which will be used to produce radioactive substances for nuclear medicine imaging. The concrete, two metres thick, will prevent any radiation from leaking into the soil below. Walls and ceilings will also be reinforced by means of barite concrete and lead plates.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
On the south side the foundation is already being laid for the office area and the seminar rooms on the ground floor.© CiM/S. Marschalkowski 
August 2017: The basement and the lift shaft have now been prepared, …© CiM - Friedemann Kiefer 
… and the water and electricity mains for the building have been laid.© CiM - Manfred Thomas 
July 2017: The foundation stone for the Multiscale Imaging Centre is laid! The coordinators at the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence are delighted, as are some of the group leaders who will be doing research in the new building, as well as the Deans of the Faculties involved.© WWU - Christina Heimken 
A time capsule is filled with daily newspapers, coins and building plans by representatives of the Ministry of Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the City of Münster, Münster University, the Construction and Real Estate Management Authority for NRW and the Gerber architectural practice … © WWU - Christina Heimken 
… and is then deposited in the foundation walls of the new building.© WWU - Christina Heimken 
The Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC) is being built at the heart of the natural and life sciences campus of the Münster University in Röntgenstraße. © CiM 
May 2017: Now it can really get going! Building permission has been granted and first stone laying is scheduled for 7 July 2017.© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski 
The building site was first searched thoroughly for unexploded bombs from World War Two – luckily, none were found.© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski 
The construction site sign has already been up for some while.© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski 
February 2017: A touch of snow on the new building site© CiM - Doris Niederhoff 
This is how the Multiscale Imaging Centre will look when it is finished. In an area of 5,700 m2 with state-of-the-art laboratories, approximately 260 staff members will undertake research together under one roof. The construction costs, around 63 million euros, will be covered by the federal government, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Münster University.© Gerber Architekten
In the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC) that is currently under construction, researchers will be bringing together a broad spectrum of biomedical imaging processes to be used in studying the behaviour of cells in organisms. The building gives a structural basis for the long-term establishment of the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence research concept at the university.
- News 13.01.2017: Building work begins on MIC
- News 11.04.2014: Science Council approves new research building in Münster
