Institute for Language Sciences Labs

Building maintenance and construction work

New noisy labor at the channel walls of the drift

The municipality and their contractor are going into a new phase of the channel wall fortification. This was supposed to be a relatively silent phase, but the method they had in their minds didn’t work as planned. They are now doing a much noisier drilling/hammering large metal object into the fortifications. If you are working…

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Work on parking places janskerkhof

In order to make our life a bit nicer… the municipality has decided to start working on the car parking at janskerkhof starting December 2nd for three weeks. They are adding extra places to store your bike, and they are removing parking spots at janskerkhof. So be prepared to extra noisy days at the lab.

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Work on the floor tiles near k02/elevator

The floor tiles near the elevator are currently not very flat. To avoid accidents, the floor will be leveled at December 9th. This means that there is some construction work and the labs are closed. You are still welcome to work e.g. in k.06 have a meeting in k05 etc, however, running experiments is not…

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Maintainance Fire Installation

The fire detection installation of janskerkhof13(a) is working, but in a very bad state. Hence, there is maintenance planned. The work is scheduled from November 18th, until November 29th. However, the work is not so loud and should not place a burden on the labs. Except for two days, then the laborers are in lab…

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Noisy renovation canal walls – update September 17

The canal walls at Drift (Nobelstraat side) will be renovated from September-January. Builders will be working between 7 and 16h (occasionally until 19h). The work will consist of several stages: early September and throughout the project: materials will be brought in with small motor boats. (update: this is not audible inside the sound attenuated booths)…

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