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This is the facility in which young doctors will practice their skills on unfixed anatomical tissue preparations, the so-called cadavers, i.e. fragments of the human body, or entire bodies, carrying out trial medical operations in conditions almost identical to those in an operating room. The state-of-the-art public facility of this type in Poland, located within the buildings of prof. Adam Gruca Independent Public Clinical Hospital CMKP, will have 2 underground floors. Its total area will be 5,165 m², the volume will reach 27,290 m³. The only visible fragment of the building's body will be the southern elevation exposed in connection with the terrain slope and the garden on the roof. Inside there will be an auditorium, cadaver training rooms with 12 fully equipped stations and audiovisual equipment, as well as teaching and demonstration rooms and cadaver storage and preparation rooms.

We ask Łukasz Niewęgłowski, site manager at Warbud SA, about the progress of the work:
‘We have constructed diaphragm walls located at a depth of 12 m along with a complete set of protective elements such as ground anchors and struts. In terms of quantities, it is approximately 285 running meters of 50 cm thick walls. All we need to do is to perform concrete cosmetics and remove the anchors and struts. The location is not very rewarding. The plot is very packed, we are limited on all sides by buildings, additionally connected with each other by above-ground passages. The future facility is being built on an old sand dune. We have a lot of river sand, steep terrain slopes as well as a heavy load from the neighbouring building E, which is balanced with struts and 18 and 15 metre-long ground anchors installed at two levels and run at an angle of 35% under the building.

The site team are now preparing for further reinforced concrete works. A tower crane has just been placed on the foundation slab. ‘We have poured the first sections of the foundation slab at the elevation of -6.60 m, built as a watertight basement,’ comments Łukasz Niewęgłowski. ‘The slab is 35 cm thick. The Centre building is founded on one slab, but it is a two-level element. The fan station slab is located at an elevation of -6.60 m and the rest of the slab is at a level of -4.75. In turn, the foundations of the connector between the Rehabilitation Centre and building H-J in the Prof. Adam Gruca Independent Public Clinical Hospital CMKP will be built on piles. But we will carry out those works after the construction of the centre has been completed,’ adds Mr. Newięgłowski.

We will soon see how things are progressing.