Linden Comansa’s Higher Education

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The University of Navarra, considered at Spain’s top 5 college by "The Times", and the country’s first private university by Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", is building in its Pamplona campus a new edifice that will held the Economics and Law schools, as well as the post graduate programs. It will open at the beginning of 2012 with a total surface of 14.000 m2 and capacity for 1.1.00 alumni.

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VDR Mutilva is in charge of the construction of the building, whose main characteristics will be flexibility on the distribution of spaces, sustainability and energy saving. Architect, Juan Miguel Otxotorena, also teacher at the University’s Architecture School, included to the project some actions so the building can produce and recover energy in respectful ways with the environment, as well as an efficient lighting system, which will save 50% of energy.

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At the project, the construction company is using three Flat-Top tower cranes from the LC500 series, Linden Comansa’s smallest family, and the most successful in Spain in number of units sold. The three cranes, from the 5LC5010 model, have maximum load of 5 tonnes, jib length of 50 meters and can load up to 1.000 kilos at the jib end. They have been erected at heights of 37.5, 38 and 19.5 meters respectively.

The three machines have been rented by VDR from loan company Algrusa, which have painted the cranes with the corporate color of the construction company. Algrusa is Official Dealer of Linden Comansa since its foundation in 1972, and has offices in Pamplona, Barcelona, Madrid, Vizcaya and Badajoz.

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With a total budget of 14 million Euros, the new building will also host the Economics Deanery, the Business University of Navarra Foundation and the department of Educational Innovation. Such an important improvement in the University of Navarra facilities will revert in alumni and teachers too, as they will have 11 new classrooms for degree studies, 7 classrooms for Master and post graduate courses, 20 rooms for group works (such as seminars, etc.), 1 IT room, 60 offices, 5 meeting rooms for teachers and one Oratory for 200 people (extendable when opening a mobile partition).