Mendel University is building two new pavilions in Brno-Černá Pole

Pavilion "Q" MZLU (Atelier Chlup, 2004)

Brno, June 28 - Mendel University has started constructing two new buildings on its campus in Brno-Černá Pole. The total costs amount to 619 million crowns, with most of the funding provided by the European Union. The school has already demolished four older structures at the construction site. The builders are now preparing, for example, boreholes for heat pumps. About sixty boreholes will reach depths of up to one hundred meters and will enable heating of both new buildings from renewable sources, the university announced in a press release.
    The decision to grant the subsidy was signed by Minister of Education Josef Dobeš (VV) already in February this year. Today, representatives of the school ceremonially laid the foundation stone at the construction site. Both pavilions are expected to be operational in the second half of 2013.
    The new multi-story buildings will rise between Drobného and Erbenova streets, adjacent to the most modern structure on the university campus - Pavilion Q, which houses a library, archive, and classrooms. They were designed by the same architectural team. The new buildings will house, for example, an institute focused on fisheries. For research and teaching, it requires aquariums, tanks, and complex facilities for water filtration. The school will also place a dissection room, a stable, and other spaces to be used by the Institute of Morphology, Physiology, and Genetics of Animals.
    "The new spaces will replace the existing ones, which no longer meet current requirements for education, science, and research in terms of both size and technical equipment," stated Vice-Rector Miroslav Havlíček. According to him, the university will gain more than 11,000 square meters for teaching and research.
    In addition to the demolition of the old buildings, the builders have already conducted basic earthworks at the construction site. They found remnants of concrete structures of the civil defense shelter from the 1950s and remnants from World War II. They are now working on the foundation piles for the building. The reinforced concrete piles extend to a depth of 23 meters.