Implementation of the investment "Rebuilding of DS Barbara in order to improve sanitary conditions"
The Silesian University of Technology has received more than 4 million PLN from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to subsidise the costs of implementing the investment entitled "Reconstruction of DS Barbara to improve sanitary conditions". The grant agreement was signed on 18 December 2020. The amount of the targeted subsidy from the state budget - Higher Education and Science, awarded by the Minister of Education and Science for the project entitled "Reconstruction of DS Barbara in order to improve sanitary conditions" is 4 092 000 PLN. The total cost of the investment is 5 116 100 PLN.
The aim of the project is to adapt the "Barbara" Student House to increased sanitary standards ensuring safe accommodation conditions for students by creating single and double rooms, equipped with bathrooms and kitchenettes, while meeting modern standards of finishing and furnishing the rooms. The redevelopment of the functional layout of the rooms is connected with the replacement and extension of sanitary, electrical and teletechnical installations, as well as with the installation of new installations: hygroregulated exhaust ventilation, low-current and data communications.
The Barbara Student House is located in Gliwice at ul. Maria Curie-Skłodowska 7 in the student housing estate. Before the reconstruction, the building provided residential functions in accordance with the norms binding at the time of its construction - apart from living rooms equipped with washbasins, on each floor there was a group sanitary unit (showers and toilets), a laundry and a kitchen. The reorganisation of the rooms will create 46 single rooms and 50 double rooms.Equipping each room with a full sanitary node and a kitchenette will eliminate or minimise the health risk to students associated with direct contact and the sharing of hygiene, sanitary and social facilities by residents, which is of particular importance in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
