The flag at full-mast for new FEM-building
With the lifting of a window by faculty-director Jetty Schaap, the new building of the department of Economics and Management (FEM) in Nijmegen has reached its highest point
A bit small?
The days before the matching ‘pannebier’, the drink or financial bonus given to the building, it was pouring heavily. Everybody who gathered together this afternoon, in Sunday’s clothes or overalls, has to carefully get round puddles to witness the opening-ritual. But just at the moment the sun is about to shine, as if it is also happy with the building, abundant in windows. Though happy…’it’s a nice building,’ says one of the future occupants, ‘but yet too small.’ That remark is soothed by another: ‘If this is finished, they start with the second part, which will be up against it.’
Provisions
Within her speech Schaap says proudly: ‘This part of the building will determine the local colour of our new accommodation. The provisions will be good and of course an elevator will be present. The part that is built against it, will have two parking lots. Also a cellar for cycles will be built, beneath the silence-yard.
Then it is time for the drink and the crowd, accompanied by the FEM-home band ‘FEMkes Delight’, moves inside.
The completion
The construction is well-scheduled. Completion is planned for 11 December. Then a month and a half is left for equipping and furnishing and in February, simultaneously with the start of the new period, the building can definitively be used.
