The regional depository in Pelhřimov is being built by a team of three masonry robots

 
Work on the new depository for the Vysočina Museum in Pelhřimov has been ongoing for six months. The construction, costing approximately 130 million crowns, is funded by the Vysočina Region and executed by the construction company PKS stavby, and is expected to be completed in two years. An interesting aspect of this project is the deployment of three masonry robots, which are being showcased together in such numbers for the first time.

This year, the masonry robot has welcomed several siblings. With two of them, it is now building the high walls of the new depository in Pelhřimov. "For the first time, we are deploying three robots on a construction site simultaneously, significantly speeding up the masonry process and shortening the overall construction time. The duration is now estimated at approximately two months. In the first phase of construction, the robots are performing the outer masonry between the load-bearing columns at the new depository. They are also working on the administrative and operational part of the depository, where they are carrying out complete masonry of the internal and external load-bearing walls," says Jaromír Sadloň, the director of the company that oversees the provision of robots in the Czech market, adding: "We first introduced the robot last year, and today it is already a common feature on construction sites. We offer them for rent, and the capacity of robots is approaching its maximum for this year." The company is therefore gradually producing more robots to ease the work for construction firms.

The two-story building, which is being constructed in Pelhřimov on the footprint of the former workshops of a secondary school, will provide space for storing collection items for decades to come. The joint depository will create a central storage facility for a large part of the regional archaeology. The museums in Třebíč and Havlíčkův Brod will use the local spaces as a secondary storage facility. The Gallery of Fine Arts in Havlíčkův Brod will also have this option. So far, regional museums have utilized the depository in Třebíč at the corner of Znojemská and Kosmákova streets and in Jihlava at the premises of the Secondary School of Applied Arts Jihlava-Helenín.