Campus and Construction

The approximately 45-year-old main building of Bielefeld University is being modernised. The building is being brought up to the latest standards in six construction phases. After the first area of construction was completed in September 2024, the second area of construction is now being set up.

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The buildings of the Faculty of Medicine OWL are being built to the south of the main university building. These are integrated into a Campus South location concept that the university developed together with an urban planning office.

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Building R6 is the future anatomy building of the OWL Medical Faculty. The university is building a main usable area of around 2,800 square metres to the south of the consortium. The building will be located at the future central square on the South Campus.

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Building R5 will in future be located on the new central square south of the consequence in the direct vicinity of Anatomy Building R6. With 5,690 square metres of main floor space on five floors, Building R5 offers plenty of room for medical teaching.

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In the second row behind the current Behavioural Research building on the Konsequenz, Bielefeld University is planning a New Extension for animal husbandry on Campus South in the form of Building R7. Approximately 3,200 square metres of floor space will be used to house animals for research by the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Medicine. The building is being constructed in the direct vicinity of the new anatomy building R6.

The Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (BLB NRW) is currently building a new multi-storey car park for Bielefeld University with a total of 1,600 car parking spaces and 100 covered bicycle parking spaces. The multi-storey car park will replace the existing car parks from the 1970s. It will have a green facade and photovoltaic roof and will fulfil the requirements for e-charging points.

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With the R4 building in the second row behind the Z building on the Konsequenz, Bielefeld University is creating future office space for the Faculty of Medicine. A special feature of the building is the highest energy standard of the university's new buildings to date: the R4 building will fulfil the passive house standard.

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We've made a start! With the handover of the first area of construction on 5 September 2024, a milestone has been reached in the renovation of the main university building. Bau und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB NRW) will modernise the main university building in five further construction phases over the coming years.

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Bau- und Liegeschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB NRW) has been constructing an interim building for Bielefeld University on the open space between the main university building and Building X since July 2023. Together with other interim spaces in the main university building, the interim building will provide a replacement for the library space in this part during the planned second construction phase of the main university building.

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The R2 office and laboratory building is the first new building to be implemented for the Faculty of Medicine OWL on the Bielefeld campus. On Morgenbreede next to building R1 (formerly ICB), the university built a main usable area of around 3,900 square metres.

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A few metres next to the main university building, the new lecture hall building Y has been built. A lecture hall with about 650 seats and three seminar rooms were built in the direct vicinity of building Z.

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In November 2018, the university inaugurated the new office building at the "Konsequenz". An extension followed in 2020, doubling the usable space. The building is used by the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Medicine.

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In 2019, the building was opened as the Innovation Centre Campus Bielefeld (ICB). In December 2020, the university bought the ICB. Since then, it has been called "R1" and is used by the Faculty of Medicine OWL. About half of the 7,150 square metres of usable space is used for laboratories and half for offices.

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Building X forms the prerequisite for the modernisation measures of the main university building (UHG) and at the same time represents the link to the new Campus North with the CITEC building and the University of Applied Sciences. After three years of intensive construction, the building was completed in 2014.

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The CITEC building was the first building on the new North Campus to be occupied (in July 2013). The new building offers researchers from six disciplines - computer science, biology, linguistics, mathematics, psychology and sports science - state-of-the-art working conditions.

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Extra-thick ceilings and floors, enough space for large-scale equipment and no daylight in the laboratories: the sensitive measuring equipment of the Bielefeld Experimental Physics Department places high demands on a building. The new replacement building at Morgenbreede is designed to meet these demands.

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