In the clip, Wold and Holmäng explain why they believe that the billion investment is doomed to fail.

On Tuesday, the regional board decided that the Sahlgrenska Life project will continue.

All indications are that the decisions to actually start building will be made in the next year.

The three houses will, among other things, contain medical laboratories and dental care - and will also promote collaboration between research, care and business.

There is no doubt that some care and research facilities are neglected and in need of renovation.

The debate is instead about whether three

new 

houses

must be 

built.

Agneta Holmäng, dean at Sahlgrenska Academy, believes that it is instead possible to make renovations and new constructions on a smaller scale and that there is no greater need for new premises. 

Both Agneta Holmäng and Agnes Wold, professor at the Department of Biomedicine, fear that rental costs will skyrocket and that this will mean less money for actual research.

Four heads of department at Sahlgrenska Academy have also expressed concern about high rents in a letter to the management of the University of Gothenburg.

Estimated construction cost is secret

Two of the three new houses will be built by the company Vitartes if the plans are approved, one of them on 23 floors.

They will then rent them out to the region and to the researchers at the University of Gothenburg.

The region does not know what the construction cost is expected to be for these two houses.

When SVT asks Vitartes, CEO Steinar Stokke writes in an email: "As is common in all private industries, we can not inform about production costs".

And what the rent will be will not be determined until 2022 - in connection with Vitartes being commissioned to build.

But the rector and head of the medical department are positive about Sahlgrenska Life's current design.

- Sahlgrenska Life gives us access to modern premises for the future, says GU's principal Eva Wiberg.

You can see a longer interview with her here.