2023-06-11 08:00:00
If you ask Helmut Habersack why, in times of digitization, “digital twins” and artificial intelligence, you need a giant laboratory through which the real Danube is routed, with 10,000 liters of river water per second, then you should take your time. Because the head of the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Boku) can then swing back. After all, the new hydraulic engineering laboratory on the spur of Vienna’s Danube Canal, which will be officially opened on Monday, is his “baby”. With construction costs of 49 million euros, of which 26 million were from European Union funds and co-financed by the Ministry of Climate, Science, Economics, Agriculture, the federal states of Vienna and Lower Austria and the Boku itself, which took over the purchase of the property, the size and the “closeness to nature” of the laboratory unique worldwide. “We visited many new hydraulic engineering laboratories beforehand,” says Habersack. “But no one realized our focus like that.”
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