Research Building

The VEG-i-TEC research building will be erected on the UGent Campus Kortrijk (Graaf Karel de Goedelaan, Kortrijk, Belgium) with ample of laboratory spaces close-by. The construction of the building itself is financed by an EFRO project and Ghent University itself.

The research building contains flexible spaces designed as:

• a process and wastewater treatment hall in the broadest sense and tailored for the entire food industry 
• a hall for the processing of vegetables and potatoes from harvested to packaged product, to which modular mobile pilots for water treatment can be connected 
• storage space at different temperatures 
• fermentation space for solid state and (fed) batch fermenters 
• supporting analytical/microbiological laboratory

Update - construction

The VEG-i-TEC construction site was officially opened on 4 December.

The construction of the research building is back on track . We still remain hopeful to open the building at the end of 2020, or the latest  in the transition to the year 2021.