Keep your bike secure through new indoor bike parking

On Tuesday, 13 February, the university's new indoor bike parking building opened. It is centrally located on campus Umeå: outside the MIT Building, between Universum and Lindell Hall. It is open to students and staff, and you can access it with your Umu card.

Here, there is parking available in both single and double-decker racks. Storage boxes, where you can lock and charge your electric bike battery, will be installed during week 10. Outside the building, there are several bike parking areas under roofing.

The new indoor bike parking is located outside the MIT Building. It is built according to principles of sustainable construction and will have a green roof of plants once the snow has melted.

ImageMattias Pettersson

The bike parking building opened on the same day as Umeå School of Sport Sciences organised Health on Campus and is part of an initiative promoting health and well-being at Umeå University.

"The bike parking is intended to provide a weather-protected and safer parking solution to facilitate biking to and from campus Umeå in all seasons", explains Mirja Westling, facilities planner at Property Management Office.

Umeå University also aims to promote biking from an environmental and sustainability perspective. In the travel survey conducted by the university last autumn, weather-protected and secure bike parking was identified as a priority by many. It is also a sustainability measure highlighted by the student unions.