ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng gave his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of laying the first stone of ITS young lecturers flat

ITS Campus, ITS News – Not only providing facilities for its students, but Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) also builds accommodation for its educators or lecturers. Starting the process, ITS held a groundbreaking ceremony and laid the first stone for the construction of a young lecturer’s flat located in the ITS lecturer housing complex Friday (29/7).

In his speech, ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng said that the level of ability of the younger generation to buy housing is still low. Therefore, ITS is committed to being able to assist ITS young lecturers who have just finished their studies. “As a form of our concern for the young lecturers of ITS, this flat was built,” said the rector, who is usually called Ashari.

The symbolic pressing of the button by ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng, company partners, and ITS leadership ranks marked the start of the flat construction.

This ITS Electrical Engineering Professor said that the construction of this young lecturer’s flat has been going on since June 2022, and it is planned to be completed in the next 150 days or in November 2022. Later, the flat built will have three floors. “In this three-story flat, ten residences will be built, each with an area of ​​60 square meters,” he added.

Furthermore, Ashari explained, the first floor of the building will function as a parking lot and public facilities to support the daily activities of lecturers. Then, the second and third floors will be filled with five dwellings each. “In every existing residence, there will be three bedrooms and two bathrooms,” he continued.

ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng pours cement dough as a sign of starting the construction of ITS young lecturers’ flats

The flat for young lecturers located in Block N-11 is one of the two flat developments for ITS young lecturers that have been planned. The second flat will soon be built in the ITS lecturer housing complex Block F with a capacity of six residential units. “That way, ITS in total can provide accommodation facilities for 16 families of young lecturers,” concluded Ashari.

The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Vice Chancellor I for Academic and Student Affairs Prof. Dr. Ir Adi Soeprijanto MT; Vice Chancellor II for Planning, Finance, and Infrastructure Ir Mas Agus Mardyanto ME Ph.D.; as well as other ITS leadership ranks. In the future, Ashari hopes that the construction of the flat intended for young lecturers can be completed on time, and ITS can also immediately facilitate the lecturers who have retired. (ITS Public Relation/far)

Display of the flat design of ITS young lecturers, which will be built in the ITS Lecturer Housing area Block N-11

Reporter: Tyara Novia Andhin