Kecskemét City Hall and Buda's elite high school also awarded HÉP

For his work in his local area and in the capital, he received the highest recognition in the sector, the Construction Industry Quality Award home as the main contractor for the Kecskemét Horváth Építőmester Zrt. (HÉP) as the main contractor at the National Association of Construction Contractors (ÉVOSZ) December ceremonial annual gala in December. Both projects were long-term professional investments spanning several years.

The development of the building, which is a symbol of the city, was special in many ways: the monument was renovated in such a way that the assembly and the mayor could work without interruption.

The reconstruction took place between March 2019 and December 2022 on an area of nearly 12,000 square metres. As we previously reported, the roof renovation covered 6,520 square metres, while the façade reconstruction covered a total of 5,940 square metres. Also as part of the façade work, a total of 1,157 artificial stone elements were restored or remanufactured, and around 500 wooden doors and windows were reconstructed with particular attention to quality and fidelity to the original.

The building's heating and cooling system was also modernised and a number of other works were carried out. Last but not least, the renovation would not be complete without the exterior and interior decorative elements of artistic value, such as the Zsolnay ornaments and the reliefs on the façade, which have been completely renewed during the project.

Moreover, the numbers and lists only tell one side of the story: the building's value is also represented by its past, as it was originally designed by Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos between 1893-97.

The Sports Centre of the Cistercian Szent Imre High School in Buda

The experts of HÉP also worked on a historic building in Budapest (here in a joint consortium with Possibuild Kft.), but the two projects could not have been more different. In addition to the historic building of the Budai Ciszterci Szent Imre Gimnázium (Cistercian Saint Imre Grammar School), this project involved the construction of a modern sports centre that, despite the contrast, strikes a balance between the old and the new.

The foundation stone for the Public Buildings/Education category of the Construction Excellence Award-winning multi-storey Sports Centre, with its special fair-faced concrete cladding (the first floor façade is made of fair-faced concrete with a lace breakthrough - editor), was laid in March 2018 and inaugurated in March 2022. The 3,700-square-metre sports hall was built to the design of Bertalan Nemes and Alfréd Peschka.

The neo-Baroque school building, designed in 1929, was connected to the new building on the left side by a glass bridge on the façade. The new sports hall of this historic institution, located in the capital's 2nd district, has a two-level handball court on the ground floor and two gymnasiums with normal ceilings, one above the other. Also on the upper level is a sports field - even larger than the lower one - with a seating capacity of 150 people.

Another interesting fact is that the experts also took advantage of the slope of the terrain to create the four-storey building, which has now been awarded a prize for excellence.