Prague has chosen a company for the construction and reconstruction of the Industrial Palace
The selected company will build a replica of the burnt-out wing, which will, however, be equipped with modern technologies inside. You will use heat pumps with 70 deep wells with an average depth of 140 meters for heating. The palace will be equipped with air conditioning and so-called shading technology. Under the left wing, a new massive basement will be created, in which the background for the preparation of exhibitions will be placed.
The completion and reconstruction of the palace will be paid for by the capital from its budget in the years 2021 to 2024. This year the municipality should pay 15 million crowns, next year 1.05 billion and the same in 2023. In 2024 the city should spend 522, 6 million crowns.
The price of labor and materials has raised costs
originally, the capital expected the maximum price to be about 9.5 percent lower when the contract was announced at the end of last year. According to the documentation, the difference is caused by the recent rise in price of construction work and materials.
The restoration of the palace has long been accompanied by problems. Among other things, the city sued for money from insurance after the wing burned down. The Prague representatives subsequently decided in 2018 to announce the contract. However, the current management of the municipality canceled it in October 2019, because it was announced before the project was completed, and thus without detailed knowledge of what the construction will include. The announcement of the tender was again late.
The Industrial Palace was built on the occasion of the Jubilee Provincial Exhibition designed by architect Bedřich Munzberger. From the beginning, it was used to organize exhibitions and other cultural events, although it was originally intended to be a temporary building. Between 1952 and 1954, the communist party decided to change its function and had the main hall of the palace rebuilt into a social and dance hall. His name was also changed to the Congress Palace, which was part of the then Julius Fučík Park of Culture and Leisure.
