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The mechatronics center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT is being built on the south campus in Karlsruhe. In the future students from mechanical engineering electrical engineering and information technology will work together in the learning and application center. The Ministry of Finance has now given the building permit.Mechatronics is a very popular course. With the new building we are creating space for innovative teaching and learning concepts. In the new building the scientists will work together on an interdisciplinary basis. Here scientific theory is combined with applied practice said Finance Secretary Gisela Splett.The new building enables the KIT to offer highly innovative practical training. I am sure that in the medium term KIT will succeed in lowering the still high drop-out rates in technical courses and thus counteracting the shortage of skilled workers in engineering emphasized Science Minister Theresia Bauer. She welcomed the fact that KIT had made substantial funds available for the new building in order to raise the education of engineering students to the highest possible technical level while being practical. The project is part of the campus development of the KIT master plan 2030 which provides for a better campus connection to the city center. The construction site is centrally located in the city center directly on the eastern Kaiserstrae between Berliner Platz and Durlacher Tor. The Nusselt lecture hall built in 1960 is currently located on the state-owned property. Refurbishment would not have been economical. The demolition of the lecture hall building is part of the overall project and will now take place in autumn 2020.The plan provides for two buildings. A flat upstream workshop building and a main house with five upper floors. The new building closes the gap between the four-story building in the west and the nine-story building in the east. The state is investing around 20 million euros in the new building and KIT contributes 1.5 million euros to the investment costs. The Karlsruhe Office of the Landesbetrieb Vermgens und Bau is planning to complete the project by the end of 2023. The architects Birk Heilmeyer and Frenzel Architects from Stuttgart were commissioned.
