On thew 26th of June, 1998 the university director Kåre Rommetveit pushed the button and ignited the first blast on the building site of the Building for Basic Biological Research (BBBR). After about a year with excavation the work on the building could start, and during the spring of 2003 the users of the building can move in. In the BBBR the three preclinical institutes at the Medical Faculty: The Department of Physiology, The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will get new and modern facilities. In addition The Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, The Medical Library Dept. Haukeland Hospital and The Medical Library for the Preclinical Division will be located in the building. The total area of the BBBR is approximately 30 000 m², and the budget is some 900 million NOK. Statsbygg is responsible for the project while the architecture is done by the firm Narud, Stokke and Wiig in Oslo.

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