Modernization of the Year 2009
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Piotr
- Preservation of cultural heritage, rehabilitating or restoring historic buildings, and making every effort to use the buildingfor its original purpose - is an exciting challenge, which deserves the highest recognition. Investors and contractors are susceptible to economic pressure exerted by competition from modernization companies - said Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Infrastructure Olgierd Dziekoński on 26 August 2010 in the Royal Castle of Warsaw during the award ceremony “Modernization of the Year 2009”. This year, the Competition was organised under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ministry of National Eductaion, and Ministry of Sport and Tourism.
The objective of the Competition is to select and reward construction undertakings, completed in a given year, which are distinguished by their special values. Newly-built properties cannot participate in the Competition. The idea that lies behind the Competition is to foster and support activities that save buildings and facilities of national heritage and promote modernization, refurbishment and extension of facilities and equipment in order to obtain a useable and aesthetic effect, without investments in brand new constructions.
The awards are granted for a given modernization, refurbishment, restoration of a building to the investor, contractor and author of the project. There are 13 categories in the Competition, in each of them there is one grand award, the title of the “Modernization of the Year” and one Distinction. The categories are as follows: housing buildings, hospitality industry buildings, industrial and engineering facilities, public utility facilities, educational facilities, culture, sports, health and recreation facilities, environment protection facilities, historical buildings, façades and thermo-renovations, most interesting modernizations and interior adaptations, revitalization of urban facilities and complexes, modernization of roads and bridges, sacral buildings.
Minister of Infrastructure Cezary Grabarczyk founded two special awards to Gmina Rakoniewice for modernization of Powstańców Wielkopolskicg Square, and Gmina Mosina for modernization of Dworcowa Street in Mosina, remarkably equipped with disabled facilities. Both projects are examples of comprehensive modernization, whose all parts make the balance between communication zone and traffic-free zone.
