CIBEK

[Centro de Investigación Biomédica Esther Koplowitz]

The building

Organization

The research staff of the CIBEK will be made up of doctors from the Hospital Clínic, professors from the Faculty of Medicine, researchers from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and researchers from the IDIBAPS itself (hired through specific and researchers’ returns programs such as the Ramón y Cajal or the ICREA).

Work with us

There will be an internal announcement for selection amongst the researchers of the IDIBAPS and, later, an external and international announcement for the selection of researchers for the CIBEK. The Hospital Clínic and the IDIBAPS confer the CIBEK a special status within their research structure, appointing a management board specifically for the center.

Features and location

The CIBEK building, currently still under construction, will become a new icon in the biomedical community in Barcelona. Its facade will convey modernity and vitality. Its inner structure will enable a constant adaptation to the changing priorities of biomedical research. The distribution of laboratories will be open plan to ease the communication between groups. The center will be connected to the Hospital Clínic through a subterranean passage under Villarroel street. The research structures of the IDIBAPS (Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Clínica and CIBEK) will thus be physically in touch.

The center will be built in a plot of 3.000 square meters located in Roselló street (between Urgell and Villarroel streets). It will have 41 meters of facade and a building depth of 25 meters. The 2.000 square meters not occupied by the building will be transferred to the Ajuntament de Barcelona for its public use and will accommodate an urban park. The building will have a ground floor, a mezzanine and five floors for a total surface of 6.500 square meters. It will also have an underground floor of 2.560 square meters, plus two basement floors also with 2.560 square meters each.

Distribution of spaces

The ground floor and the mezzanine will accommodate common spaces (cafeteria, lecture hall, security, concierge’s office, reception, management of CIBEK, IDIBAPS and Fundació Clínic, administrative support structures for the researchers, visitor’s reception, cloakroom, seminar rooms…). The undergound floor and the five floors will house research laboratories, laboratories for technological innovation and research support platforms (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, cytometrics, cryopreservation). The basement floors 1 and 2 will accommodate a storage area and a car park.

Development program of CIBEK

December 2005: Esther Koplowitz announces her donation.
January 2006: Creation of the CIBEK Monitoring Group: Juan Rodés, General Director of the Hospital Clínic; Francisco Guerra, Manager of the Hospital Clínic; Josep Maria Piqué, Medical Director of the Hospital Clínic; Ramon Gomis, Research Director of the Hospital Clínic; Vicente Arroyo, Director of the Institute for Digestive and Metabolic diseases; Antonio Lacy, Head of the Gastrointestinal Surgical Service.
February 2006: Creation of the Technical Group that must prepare the building project under the direction of the Architect-in-chief, Mr. Antoni Ubach, and the Director of Engineering of the Hospital Clínic, Sr. Joan Muntasell.
July 2006: Signature of a declaration of intent by Esther Koplowitz and the Fundació Clínic.
September 2006: Modification of the General Metropolitan Plan and Plan of Urban Improvement approved by the Ajuntament de Barcelona.
December 2006: Conclusion of the CIBEK Basic Project.
January 2007: The Mensor Group develops the CIBEK functional plan.
February 2007: Conclusion of the Architecture Basic Project.
March 2007: Final approval for the modification of the General Metropolitan Plan and the Plan of Urban Improvement by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
December 2007: Conclusion of the Executive Project of Structures and Grounds.
January 2008: Foundation stone laying ceremony of CIBEK.
February 2008: Conclusion of the Executive Project of Installation.; Consolidation of buildings attached to CIBEK and conclusion of the pulling down of buildings currently in the location where the CIBEK will be built.
March 2008: Initiation of building of the new cofferdams and excavation.
April 2008: Conclusion of the Executive Project of Architecture.
January 2008: Building of Structures and Grounds.
April 2010: End of works.