PORR, ORTNER to Deliver MCI Campus in Innsbruck

The consortium PORR ORTNER will deliver the new campus of MCI | The Entrepreneurial School in Innsbruck, Austria by 2024 on behalf of the province of Tyrol. The consortium emerged as the winner of the award procedure, held as a “competitive dialogue.” The project has a contract volume of EUR 135m.

As a Design-Build contractor under a partner model, the PORR ORTNER consortium assumes overall responsibility for the design and construction of the MCI Campus right through to its turnkey handover. In this future-oriented model for executing complex projects, all parties involved are integrated into the joint planning, costing and realization at an early stage. This contributes significantly to a common understanding of the project and will be reflected in the appealing design, as well as innovative, lifecycle-oriented execution of construction.

The award of the contract marked an initial innovation boost for the large-scale new campus building. The use of building information modeling guarantees efficient planning for all parties involved. Lean management ensures ongoing process optimization and guarantees the efficient design of the entire value chain right from the start. The next step will see the announcement of the architectural competition in March. Construction is set for completion in the second half of 2024.

MCI’s 3,500 students, 400 staff and around 1,000 lecturers are presently spread across several locations in Innsbruck. The new campus is being realized in a prominent location on the nearly 10,000-square-meter “Fenner-Areal,” creating optimal conditions for research, study, continuing education, know-how transfer and start-ups. Direct proximity to several faculties of the University of Innsbruck, to the Innsbruck Hofgarten, to the international congress center, as well as to the lively old town makes the future campus of the MCI an attractive location for education and training.

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