ViteMeir offers fresh tasting bites

Vestland County Municipality as the developer will present the winner of the architectural competition this week and give the go-ahead for the groundbreaking ceremony at Kaupanger. Project manager Marianne Jevnaker will then be able to ViteMeir also reveal a little about what content the signal building will actually have.

– Among other things, we will open a taste laboratory, a so-called "SmaksLab". There, people of all ages can have exciting experiences by using, testing and perhaps challenging their own senses, says project manager Marianne Jevnaker at ViteMeir .

Local producers and sellers of food and drink are of course involved in SmaksLab, since the entire center has sustainability as a fundamental premise.

Thank you local business

ViteMeir will provide both an inspiring and educational offer in science for kindergartens and schools and be an experience center for families and leisure visitors. The ambition is to become a regional science center, something that will be clarified before the end of the year. But local businesses also have an important role.

– It is thanks to our driving forces from local businesses that we are now standing here and can look forward to opening such a great center for innovation, collaboration and networking, says the project manager.

New jobs

It will also provide new jobs in the region.

– We will be advertising the position of communications manager in December and we expect to recruit several key people during the spring. Before the opening in 2021, several communications managers will be hired, along with people for the departments of finance, technical operations and marketing and communications, says Jevnaker. She is very happy.

– It will be a very exciting workplace! My new colleagues and I are lucky to work with such a new and unique offering in the region, a science center that will attract young people and adults from both the local community and tourists, says Marianne Jevnaker.

Construction info

The construction project will be realized by Åsen & Øvrelid AS in collaboration with Arkitektkontoret 4b AS, which won the design competition. An investment framework for the building of 140 million kroner was approved by the County Council of Sogn og Fjordane this spring.