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In response to the growing demand for laboratory office and service space the canton of Vauds pension fund CPEV will finance and construct a new building dedicated to life sciences on the Biople campus. The CPEV and Biople have signed a contract whereby the pension fund will finance and carry out the construction of a new building on the grounds of the Biople life sciences campus in Epalinges in the heights of Lausanne.Construction will begin in July 2020 with a first quarter 2023 scheduled completion date. The new 9900 square meter building will house in its main structure offices and laboratories of companies active in the field of life sciences. The new building will create around 150 additional jobs in addition to the 1700 people currently working on the Biople site. Barely a year and a half after the inauguration of our last building this new project is a testament to the dynamism and attractiveness of our ecosystem and will contribute to the growing competitiveness of our region in the field of life sciences. It strengthens the infrastructures skills and networks that we are making available to a unique community explains Nasri Nahas CEO of Biople SA.More than 70 companiesStarted in 2004 by the public authorities of the canton of Vaud Biople is a life sciences community bringing together industry and academia. It offers a combination of high-quality infrastructure value-added services and living spaces that are well suited to ensuring the prosperity of the businesses based there. With a surface area of over 8 hectares the site houses more than 70 companies and institutions including several head offices of multinational corporations start-ups and clinical development teams together with technology and service providers. It also hosts 25 world-famous research groups in particular the Lausanne University Hospital CHUV the University of Lausanne UNIL and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
