MU is currently spending 50 million per month on the construction of the campus, and the amount will continue to grow

Brno - The construction of the campus at Masaryk University in Brno's Bohunice currently costs approximately 50 million crowns per month. However, this amount will continue to grow until the school begins further construction, university treasurer Ladislav Janíček told reporters today. In the vicinity of the completed parts of the campus, another phase is now beginning to be built. Nine pavilions are expected to be completed in July 2007 and will cost 1.26 billion crowns.
The so-called blue phase is expected to provide facilities for further students of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science starting from the academic year 2007/2008. "Three pavilions will be used by medical students for teaching biology and biochemistry, while another four buildings will be occupied by natural scientists for their chemistry subjects," said Rector Petr Fiala. The phase also includes the construction of an information and energy center for the campus.
The area, where the first phase has already been completed, currently serves about 500 students; by 2008, when the entire university campus is expected to be operational, that number will be about ten times as many. According to the rector, the completion deadline in September 2008 is still on track. There are no longer any financial problems either. "After resolving complications with the higher tax, we have sufficient funds to successfully complete not only the blue phase but also the entire campus," Fiala stated.
Alongside the blue phase, work is also underway in Bohunice on the so-called red phase, which costs 340 million, with infrastructure being developed in the area. The university is still awaiting the yellow-green phase, and it will announce a public tender for its supplier at the turn of this and next year.
The project, costing more than 5.1 billion crowns, will not only affect the academic community. Kamenice Street, where the campus is located, will be transformed into a four-lane road leading from Brno University Hospital through the campus to the highway interchange. A new cycling path will also be created alongside it. While the university finances the construction of the pavilions from the state budget, a loan from the European Investment Bank, and its own resources, the city of Brno contributes 300 million crowns to the construction of the infrastructure.

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