Building of the South Moravian Region 2008 competition
ŽSD a.s. won first place in the Building of the South Moravian Region 2008 competition, Industrial and Technology Buildings category. The award was granted for the Paint and Blasting Shop of DpmB a.s., Brno Medlánky. The investor was Dopravní podnik města Brna (Brno City Public Transport), and the designer, Kovoprojekta Brno.
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With the construction of the Paint and Blasting Shop building, the investor solved its need for a greater painting capacity, which had dated back to well before 2000. Investment preparations started in 2001 with the preparation of a paint study in the Central Shops and the Slatina and Husovice tram depots. Gradual refinement of requirements resulted in a final design prepared by Kovoprojekta Brno, a.s. that located the new paint shop with a blasting box in the Central Shops in Brno – Medlánky. This project documentation then served for selecting ŽSD a.s. as the general contractor for the whole construction in tender in 2007. ŽSD completed the entire construction with the shops in operation- with only partial shutdowns.
The first stage involved the building of a new electric shop, with a store, through the insertion of a new, intermediate floor consisting of a steel structure built-in between two existing bays of the 1950’s reinforced concrete frame. This permitted the existing cabling shop to be moved to the new area, which was followed by the demolition of the original shop building. Moving these workshops and relocating the networks and the traction mains created space for the new paint-shop annex.
The new paint-shop annex is built on a steel frame, with a shed roof and industrial floor with antistatic coating spread over the entire surface and grounded given the character of operations. Eight Sorena s.r.o. (Nova Verta) cabins with process machinery are installed in the bays of the original hall and the newly built area. The cabins are intended for degreasing, painting, paint drying, sealing and body grinding. The cabins also include built-in travelling pneumatic platforms with 3D mobility for greater comfort in painting, tram wagons in the first place. The delivery also includes two paint walls, initially as Cabin 9, for small component painting. The cabins are linked by rails with the existing travelling platform.
In the cabin floor and under the cabins there is a network of interconnected air channels equipped with settling filters. They ensure paint aerosol-contaminated air exhaustion through the filtering system and subsequent hot-air recovery. Main air units are located on the steel lattice structure above the existing hall.
The building also includes an exchanger station, which supplies heat to the system that heats the air in the paint boxes up to 60°C (for paint drying). The paint shop is linked to a new wastewater treatment plant.
The building which houses the blasting box intended for painting car parts was built outside the main part of the building (hall). The blasting box is linked to the rail network in the workshops. Located near the blasting box is the ground-resistance reference point, connected to a relatively complex and unique lightning catchment system used to protect the whole air-technology units together with remote catchers.
