On Tuesday, June 25, the gala evening of the Czech Transport Construction & Technology of the Year 2023 competition took place in the Fanta Hall of the Main Railway Station in Prague. The title and also the prize of the magazine Roads and Railways was awarded to the tram line Divoká Šárka – Dědina in the construction of which divisions 3, 1 and 4 participated. The award was received by the commercial director Jiří Tesař and the project manager Pavel Zelina. The evening included the evaluation of the best works by university students, the prize of the company Subterra was awarded to Karel Síbrt from the Faculty of Transport Sciences of the Czech Technical University.
On Wednesday, May 29, the traditional sponsor’s concert of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, which Subterra has been supporting for more than thirty years, took place in the Dvořák Hall of Rudolfinum. The Prague Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Tomáš Brauner, while the German violinist Carolin Widmann played solos. There was a social gathering after the concert.
On Wednesday, May 21, the ceremonial commencement of the construction of a service centre for the company Emil Frey took place in Černý Most, Prague. The hall, the construction of which has begun this year, is being constructed by division 2 and is designed for workshops, paint shops and a showroom for the sale of used cars; it also includes a transformer station, car wash, parking lot and landscaping. Subterra was represented at the ceremony by the general director Ondřej Fuchs, the commercial director Jiří Tesař and the director of division 2 Petr Kajer.
On Thursday, April 25, the opening conference of the Building Fair Brno took place in Hall A3 of the Brno Exhibition Centre, whose golden sponsor was Subterra. Commercial director Jiří Tesař also took part in the panel of personalities, which was entitled Restart of the Czech Construction Industry, and in his presentation, he recalled this year’s 60th anniversary of the foundation of Subterra.
On Tuesday, April 9, the Annual Conference of the company Subterra took place in the Multifunctional Hall DOX+ in Prague. After the presentations of the general director Ondřej Fuchs and the commercial director Jiří Tesař, five selected projects were introduced. At the end of the programme, the best employees were awarded, and the Personality of the Year 2023 was announced. The title went to a specialist from division 2 – Josef Mihalko.
On Wednesday, March 27, the 27th annual professional meeting for railway administrators, investors, designers and builders took place in the O2 Universum hall in Prague. Vladimír Král presented the optimization of the line Mstětice – Praha-Vysočany, which was completed at the end of last year, led by division 3. Subterra has been one of the long-term main partners of the conference.
On Tuesday, March 12, the Prague Transport Forum took place in the Hall of Architects at the Old Town Hall. The conference, with Subterra as one of the main sponsors, focused on transport infrastructure, means of transport and technologies. Jiří Tesař, Commercial Director, gave a presentation about Subterra’s 60 years and the company’s major projects in Prague.
This year in September, it will be sixty years since the first blast at the excavation of the water supply feeder Želivka – which marked the beginning of the company Subterra. From a company, that focused on underground constructions, Subterra has evolved into a multidisciplinary construction company with five divisions. The anniversary is commemorated with a logo featuring the number 60, and the main motif of the campaign is a mosaic made of more than four thousand photos of constructions, machines, and employees.
At the construction site of the first section of the Prague metro D Pankrác-Olbrachtova, which is being carried out by an international consortium led by division 5, on Thursday January 11, the blasting of the second top heading of a U-turn tunnel took place behind the station Pankrác D. The gradual blasting of all the explosives from the core till the contour of the excavation caused a light effect. Each detonator was timed according to the project at one tenth of a second increment.