Ground-breaking ceremony for the bERLinPro building on 10th September 2015 at 12:30
The front of the new bERLinPro building designed by the architecture office DGI Bauwerk
We cordially invite you to the bERLinPro (Berlin Energy Recovery Linac) groundbreaking ceremony on 10th September 2015 at 12:30. The HZB develops in Berlin-Adlershof a test facility for an Energy Recovery Linac.
The ceremony will take place outside, behind the BESSY II building, between Ernst-Ruska-Ufer and Albert-Einstein-Straße. We will meet at 12:10 in HZB Entrance Hall, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15.
Registration
Please register until Monday 31st August here: http://hz-b.de/spatenstich We are looking forward to welcome you.
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