{"id":49597,"date":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"jrc-inaugurates-the-new-research-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2013\/10\/jrc-inaugurates-the-new-research-centre\/49597\/","title":{"rendered":"JRC inaugurates the new \u201cresearch centre\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www3.varesenews.it\/immagini_articoli\/201211\/ccr.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"215\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A standing ovation accompanied the ribbon cutting for the two new buildings at the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Joint Research Centre in Ispra<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">. At the event this afternoon, there were the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">M&aacute;ire Geoghegan-Quinn, <\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">the Vice-President <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">of the European Commission, <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Maro&scaron; &Scaron;ef&#269;ovi&#269;, <\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">the Director General of the JRC, <\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Dominique Ristori <\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">and the Member of the European Parliament <\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Vittorio Prodi<\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\nfont-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\">By the end of the year, the two buildings will house about <\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">450 of the best European researchers<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:\n12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nbold\">. The JRC in Ispra had not seen a construction this big since the 1950s, when the nuclear safety reactors were built. Nine thousand square metres, &nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"st\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&euro;43 million of investment, and collaboration between Italian and European companies involved in completing the project. The two new buildings are situated at the very centre of the research site, and by the first few days of 2014, will house the <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Institute for Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">During her speech, the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation emphasised the importance of these two buildings in view of &ldquo;<b>Horizon 2020&rdquo;<\/b>, the ambitious European program, which will officially start in 2014, the aim of which is to relaunch the European Union&rsquo;s competitiveness. &ldquo;Horizon 2020&rdquo; will gather all European Union funding for research and innovation, in such a way as to simplify converting new scientific discoveries into innovative products are services.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&ldquo;Today in Ispra, I&rsquo;m very happy to see that these new buildings will strengthen the ability of the JRC to provide high-level scientific results,&rdquo; said&nbsp; <strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">the Vice-President <\/span><\/strong>of the European Commission, Maro&scaron; &Scaron;ef&#269;ovi&#269;, shortly after. &ldquo;The Commission encourages the Member States &nbsp;to modernise their infrastructure, to bring it in line with the goals of Europe 2020. For the sake of our credibility, we wanted to apply the best quality standards to our infrastructure.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:\nEN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">The architect <b>Roberto Babich<\/b>, who designed the buildings, has shown how it is possible to achieve these standards. There is a large heat pump and a wastewater treatment plant, to reduce energy consumption, <span class=\"st\">and a multitude of solar panels placed on the roof and on the cantilever roofs of the car parks, to produce 80 per cent of the energy necessary to heat the water in the new buildings. The laboratories and the offices are still bare. Once the move from the old buildings is complete, <b>these will be demolished<\/b>, making available a total area of 13,000 m<sup>2<\/sup>. This will contribute to improving the environmental impact of the whole Ispra site, the third most important in Europe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribbons cut for the two buildings that will house laboratories and offices, and will contribute to energy conservation for the whole centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JRC inaugurates the new \u201cresearch centre\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ribbons cut for the two buildings that will house laboratories and offices, and will contribute to energy conservation for the whole centre.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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