Belval, ready for September 2014 new academic year

(ADW) The development of the Belval district continues to grow at great speed despite the crisis. This means that the first students will be able to move in for the start of the 2014 academic year. To underline the rate of development, every fifth new home built in the in the south of the country is in Belval.

This was the message delivered Monday by representatives of the company Agora, with the mission to sustain and develop the future district after analysing the results of the past year.

Lydia Mutsch, Mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette, highlighted a recent statement made by the Minister of Higher Education Martine Hansen, assuring that by autumn 2014 students at the Walferdange campus will be able to move to Belval.

The "House of Knowledge" and the "House of the humanities", both currently under construction, will be ready to welcome students.

As for student housing, the mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette stated that 36 percent already exists in Esch-sur-Alzette. By 2015, 68 percent of student housing will be in the Esch-Belval-Sanem area.

A quarter of all planned construction in Belval has already been built in a 270,000 m2 area, explained Vincent Delwiche, Director of Agora, and construction in 260,000 m2 is currently in progress.

By 2014-2015, 40 percent of all projects will be completed. All this within twelve years and despite the financial crisis.

Agora officials are certainly satisfied by their private sector investors, as well as Ketter Thill  laboratories who began construction of a large laboratory behind the Adem building. Other office buildings are already planned.

 Housing in the area is not slowing down and mushrooming in the Belval-Nord district located in the Sanem commune.

No less than 170 housing units of one kind or another was completed in 2012. And the development continues meaning that one in every five homes built in the south of the country today is in Belval.