Warbud News

On July 11, 2024, the new seat of the Cardiology Clinic and Department was opened in the building of the 1st Military Clinical Hospital with the SPZOZ Polyclinic in Lublin at 23 Racławickie Avenue. Warbud is implementing this contract in two stages. In the first stage we rebuilt the western wing and the central part along with the connector. The Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation will be moved here any day now.

The symbolic ribbon was cut by Tadeusz Szymanek - Secretary of the Voivodeship, Bishop Mieczysław Cisło, Jan Macher - Director of Group of Contracts at Warbud SA, Wojciech Wołoch - 1st Vice-Voivode, Prof. Michał Zembala - Vice-Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, Grzegorz Sobieszek, MD Ph.D. and Col. Aleksander Michalski, Ph.D.

The contract signed on October 2022 covered the addition of a top floor to the existing main building within the unused attic, which is to be used by medical units. On the added floor there will be comfortable and modern patient wards.

We take an opportunity to look around the construction site. The progress of the work has been described by Paweł Guz, Site Manager:

 ‘We have successfully completed the first stage of the development project which I consider to have been difficult and full of challenges. It is a demanding project, now we are carrying out works in an active hospital facility. We have introduced unique solutions not previously implemented by our company - we strengthened the foundations by micropiling (i.e. drilling holes in the foundation walls to a depth of 3 to 5 m), and then we drove in and screwed in aluminium piles at the same time. In two months, we installed approximately 650 piles, at the same time restoring the rooms to their original condition.’

An interesting solution was a sliding roof over the expanded building. ‘Both the facade and the roof of the building are under historic buildings protection,’ explains Paweł Guz. ‘Good cooperation of our staff with the Investor and the Project Manager has resulted in completing the first stage of the contract. We will take a short breath and in a moment an equally difficult stage 2, which will be completed with a shorter deadline, will begin. We will start work as soon as the entire unit of the former part of the hospital, together with the patients, is moved to a new location. The operational time for that procedure is only a week, so our Investor also faces a challenge,’ says Paweł Guz.

‘Stage 2 will be even more difficult because we will affect the area of the hospital which is over 100 years old. We have there wooden ceilings and stairs whose load-bearing capacity is limited. We have developed a detailed plan for the demolition of the existing roof, chimneys, walls and ceilings. We have drawn conclusions from the previous stage. First, we will install scaffolding for the sliding tent,’ reports the Site Manager. ‘The biggest challenge may be the deadline. The most difficult work will be performed in winter and the design solutions and materials require specific conditions, especially in the case of the roofing which cannot be installed at temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius. However, we have overcome even bigger obstacles before, we have a great team on site, a mixture of youth and experience, so I am sure that next year we will celebrate the completion of the entire investment,’ summarizes Paweł Guz.