The new building at the Kralingse Zoom creates a large location that provides room for all economic study programmes, with the exception of sports marketing & management, which will remain at the Max Euwelaan location.

The COM School, which was housed in the WTC on Vasteland during the renovation, will return to the Kralingse Zoom and will mostly be located in the new wing of the location. The same applies for Business Administration (MER), Business IT & Management and Human Resource Management, three study programmes of the School of Management which are currently still located in the high-rise of Museumpark.

Healthcare Technology and Industrial Product Design to the Pieter de Hoochweg

The School of Management’s Technical Business Administration will not be joining them. It will leave Museumpark for Academieplein, explains Fiona Verbeek, who is coordinating the move and renovation at Academieplein. ‘Healthcare Technology and Industrial Product Design will leave for the Pieter de Hoochweg, in anticipation of the facade and climate renovation. This way, we temporarily create a space for Technical Business Administration at Academieplein while their definitive location in the building is being renovated.’

In the coming years the facades and climate installations at Academieplein will be renovated, which results in temporarily moving several study programmes. Healthcare Technology and Industrial Product Design will eventually return. At the end of this year, Civil Engineering (to RDM) and Civil Technology (Pieter de Hoochweg) will be leaving temporarily.

Renovation in the labs

The most radical renovation is that of the climate systems and facades at the labs of, including biology, medical lab research, and chemistry, Fiona Verbeek explains. ‘This will take a long time, since we can’t just move the labs temporarily like we can with normal classrooms. It is possible that the renovation will have to take place during the holidays.’

At Pieter de Hooch there will shortly be room available, as the associate degrees of the Rotterdam Academy (RAC) currently located there, will move to the empty floors of the Museumpark high-rise. The associate degrees currently offered in the Oceaanhuis will join them there. The rent of the floor in that building will be discontinued. The building will become home to luxury apartments.

RAC to high-rise Museumpark

The RAC will be housed in the pavilion and on the connecting floors of the Museumpark high-rise as much as possible. Jan Schuur, coordinator of the so-called ‘Shift 2017’: ‘That is why the master programmes move from the pavilion to the ninth floor of the high-rise and the education study programme will move from the third and fourth floors to the seventh and eighth floors.’

Text: Jos van Nierop
Illustration: Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Rotterdam)