Feringa Building

The new Feringa Building consists of two construction phases. After several years of construction, the first - and also largest - building section was commissioned in 2024. The second construction phase (the last approx. 10,500 m2) started in November 2024 with new contractor Friso Koopmans. This final building section will house various practical laboratories and a clean room. SRON and the Kapteyn Institute will be housed here. Phase 2 is expected to be completed in the summer of 2027, after which the entire Feringa Building will be finished.

Feringa Building (64,000 m2) takes the form of three interconnected V-wings and houses some 1,400 students and 850 staff members. Besides office and lecture rooms, the building also contains a wide range of special laboratories, including physical, (bio)chemical and low-vibration labs.

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Home to Nobel Prize Winners

The building is named after Professor Ben Feringa, who conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (in Nijenborgh 4) and where Prof. Frits Zernike also won his Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953. The Feringa Building, ‘home to Nobel Prize winners’, underpins the University’s ambitions to continue contributing to important international research in fields such as chemical engineering, nanotechnology, material research and astronomy.

Pictures of festive construction kickoff, with Ben Feringa:

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