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The
visit
to Kraków,
paid
at the
end
of last
week
by Mr.
Charlie
Adams,
the
President
of yhe
Management
Board
of the
Hyde
Housing
Group,
one
of the
largest
public
organisations
to manage
real
estates
in Great
Britain,
is the
evidence
of transformations
that
are
taking
place
on the
Polish
construction
market.
The
visit
of the
British
delegation
is related
to the
erection
of a
multi-family
building
(40
flats),
made
of ready-made
volumetric
modules
by the
Buma
Group,
in the
London
district
of Stockwell.
The
modules
will
be fabricated
in the
Kraków
factory
as part
of the
turn-key
project,
complete
with
elevations,
installations,
full
interior
furnishing,
including
glazed
tiles
and
sanitary
fixtures,
as well
as kitchen
furniture.
The
building
was
designed
by the
PCKO
Architects,
the
design
office
that
won
last
year
the
British
prestigious
nationwide
competition
for
the
New
Hall
Harlow
housing
estate
and
was
granted
the
2003
Housing
Award
(an
annual
award
for
best
housing
designs).
"The
building
will
be transferred
to tenants
in June
when
Poland
is already
a member
of the
European
Union,"
said
Mr.
Charlie
Adams.
"That
fact
has
also
a symbolic
meaning
to us."
The
Hyde
Group
administers
ca.
30,000
flats.
The
value
of real
estates
that
make
up the
organisation’s
assets
amounts
to two
billion
pounds.
The
organisation
managed
by Mr.
Charlie
Adams
occupies
the
second
place
on the
list
of similar
public
institutions
which
built
new
flats
in Great
Britain.
Rents
in the
buildings
erected
by the
Hyde
Housing
Group
(the
Group
is owned
by the
government)
and
financed
partly
from
public
resources
and
partly
from
bank
loans,
amount
to 60-120
pounds
a week
(432-864
Polish
zlotys).
Tenement
housing
is the
dominating
form
of housing
projects
in Great
Britain,
due
to,
among
other
things,
very
high
land
prices,
since
only
high-income
people
can
afford
to buy
their
own
houses.
Presently,
one
acre
(0.4
ha)
of a
building
plot
in suburban
districts
of London
costs
ca.
two
million
pounds,
that
is 14.4
million
Polish
zlotys.
Before
a building
of Polish
origin
is transferred
to the
British
tenants
in London,
a group
of tenants
will
move
into
an identical
building
in Kraków.
The
twin
building
was
built
in the
new
housing
estate
of Mała
Góra
in Kraków.
The
representatives
of the
Hyde
Housing
Group
emphasise
that
the
construction
of the
first
house
under
the
volumetric
module
system
elaborated
in Poland
opens
the
road
to further
projects.
"The
first
facility
in London
will
be erected
by the
Buma
Group
in two
weeks,"
declares
Mr.
Rodney
Peck,
Director
of Llewellyn,
a London-based
construction
company
that
is going
to handle
the
erection
of houses
from
Kraków
in future.
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