Overview
- Officials set summer 2026 for handover to the University of Hamburg, with offices and seminar rooms slated to open then.
- About 300 complex laboratories are scheduled to be commissioned stepwise starting in the winter semester 2026/27.
- Damages from a spring 2024 water ingress in underground technical areas have been repaired, an expert report cites multiple causes, and liability is being assessed.
- GMH reserved roughly €60 million in 2024 to cover added costs, and total expenses have climbed far beyond the early ~€140 million estimate, with some reports now citing around €425 million.
- Finance Senator Andreas Dressel says the city will seek cost recovery and push more standardized approaches for future university projects, as the building prepares to consolidate key Earth and climate research units including CLICCS.