ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng when giving a speech at the Groundbreaking ceremony of the ITS Retail Building

Campus ITS, ITS News – To further improve services to the community, the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) built the ITS Retail building to meet the basic needs of students and the surrounding community. To start the development process, a groundbreaking ceremony for the ITS Retail Building was held next to the ITS Molina Building Wednesday (25/5).

This ceremony was attended directly by ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng, ITS Director of Business Cooperation and Management (DKPU) Tri Joko Wahyu Adi ST MT Ph.D., ITS Secretary (Sekits) Dr. Umi Yuhana SKom MSc, Secretary of the Board of Trustees (MWA) ) ITS Dr. Ir Lily Pudjiastuti MSc, as well as several company partners and other ITS leadership ranks.

In his speech, the ITS Chancellor, often called Ashari, explained that 17,000 students migrated around ITS. ITS Retail itself was built based on improving services to the community and overseas students living around ITS. “In addition, this is also an ITS step to bring back programs that were delayed during the pandemic,” said this professor of Electrical Engineering.

Ashari continued that ITS Retail is also expected to be later able to increase ITS income, although it is not much compared to other ITS income. Ashari emphasized that the goal is to serve the community and provide a place to practice training technopreneurs for ITS students. “Hopefully, it will be multifunctional and positively impact ITS, students, and the surrounding community because so far, this land has not been utilized,” he explained.

The laying of the first stone marked the inauguration of the ITS Retail development by ITS Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ir Mochamad Ashari MEng IPU AEng

Meanwhile, Tri Joko Wahyu Adi ST MT Ph.D. continued that the ITS Retail development project will be built on two floors of 500 square meters. The first floor will contain ITS products such as ITS Organic Vegetables (SayOr), startup products made by ITS students, and other ITS products. “In addition, the first floor will also be filled with daily basic needs and an ATM center,” said the lecturer of the Civil Engineering Department.

Unlike the first floor, Tri Joko explained that the second floor would be used as a co-working space, cafe, management room, and ITS Press (ITS printing) for student printing needs such as print and photocopying. “ITS Retail will also make an online platform so that students and the public can access it online,” he said.

Pressing the siren button by ITS leadership and ITS partners to start the ITS Retail Groundbreaking event

This ITS Retail has a building value of Rp. 3.3 billion, of which Rp. 2.3 billion is allocated for buildings, and Rp. 1 billion is earmarked for infrastructure development, including bridges. In addition, ITS Retail itself will be built over the next five months starting April 18, 2022, which is estimated to be completed on October 2, 2022. “Hopefully, in October 2022, we can inaugurate this Retail ITS,” he said hopefully. (ITS Public Relation)

Reporter: Thariq Agfi Hermawan