"Ground-breaking" for the first NEST

NEST is getting some meat on the bone: On January 12, 2016, construction work got underway on the office unit Meet2Create. The teams from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and NEST celebrated the milestone together on site and sounded the starting signal for the installation of the first unit at NEST. Even before NEST 's "backbone", its basic infrastructure, is complete, the construction of the first unit has begun on the protruding platforms. The office lab Meet2Create is being erected on NEST's second floor under the direction of the Competence Center Typology & Planning in Architecture (CCTP) at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). At the small "ground-breaking" ceremony on January 12, 2016, project head Sibylla Amstutz from HSLU was delighted that the construction work could finally get underway after around four years on the drawing board. In a brief speech delivered to the project members present from HSLU and Empa's NEST team, she reflected on the path towards the beginning of the build and thanked all the partners warmly. Four years of planning, four months of construction .