FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences

On behalf of the city council of Graz, the capital of the province of Styria, GBG has built the new campus building of the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, including an underground car park and an aviation lab, in only 16 months.
The new campus building integrates an auditorium maximum, a library, a canteen, lecture halls and offices. The library, the canteen and the outdoor facilities, which have been funded by the EU through Urban_GrazWest, are also open to the public.

Since its foundation, the University of Applied Sciences Centre has been a special kind of “motor” for the western part of Graz. This positive influence on the development of this part of the city is meant to be reinforced by the construction of the new campus building. The formerly mono-functional industrial belt should become a modern location for innovative technology companies as well as important educational institutions.

The following courses of study are housed in the new campus building:
"InfoMed/Health Care Engineering",
“International Management”,
“Production Technology and Organisation” as well as
“Social Work”.
The new campus building also houses:
the postgraduate course “Tele-Medicine” and
the “Centre for Multimedia Learning”.

Time frame:

Start of construction: April 2003
Completion: August 2004
Opening: October 2004

Data on the building

General planner: Architectural firm ZT Arquitectos Lda., Lisbon and Graz

Site area: 15, 580 m²
Total usable floor space: 17,200 m²
Gross floor area: 20,100 m²
Interior space: 87,400 m²

Parking-spaces in underground car park: 96
Parking spaces for private cars: 24

Total cost: 23.80 million Euro