Gemo hands over the Faculty of Medicine campus at Palacký University Olomouc

In the first days of January, the university received the keys to the new building. GEMO completed the project exactly as scheduled, with construction taking just under 30 months from the start of work in July 2023. The total construction costs amounted to CZK 628.3 million, with Palacký University Olomouc contributing CZK 193.3 million from its own resources. The remaining CZK 435 million was funded through grants from the Czech Republic’s state budget. Thanks to this, a modern four-storey campus has risen in Hněvotínská Street, which significantly expands the facilities for educating future doctors and healthcare professionals.

„”Personally, I view the completion of the Faculty of Medicine campus at Palacký University Olomouc as one of our most interesting recent projects. The unique facade, featuring triangular panels, goes beyond standard solutions, and I hope it will remain a fresh design element of this remarkable campus for many years to come. The lecture hall, with its unconventional circular floor plan, has a capacity of nearly 400. This project has successfully transformed a brownfield site into a modern building with extensive green roofs and striking architecture.” says Radek Nepustil, Project Manager at GEMO a.s.

GEMO served as the general contractor for the construction between 2023 and 2025. Before the main construction began, an old military artillery garage was removed from the former brownfield site. This was followed by the relocation of utility lines and landscaping to accommodate the new elevation of the building. he implementation of monolithic structures belongs to the other interesting milestones of the construction. This involves floors that recede in plan, supported by inclined perimeter columns. The campus building is equipped with the most modern elements of audiovisual technology. The requirements for interior design were also significantly above standard.

The new building with its original architecture, authored by Ateliér Velehradský from Brno, is a four-storey, detached building of an irregular oval shape with a dominant architectural element represented by a glazed facade with a suspended cable system. Attached to it are shading elements made of perforated triangular cassettes in red, which give the building spatial depth. The red colour refers to the tradition of the local medical faculty.

A top-tier environment for teaching as well as joint meetings of students and teachers has been created on an internal usable area of approximately 7,300 m². The heart of the building is a circular lecture hall with a capacity of 378 seats. On the first floor, there is a canteen that produces and serves up to 2,500 meals daily, as well as practical classrooms and dentistry laboratories. The upper floors belong to the theoretical and practical teaching of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Health Sciences, including specialised classrooms with simulators and other modern aids for teaching.

Part of the building is also a transformer station and a diesel generator, which strengthen the energy capacity of the entire campus. A green roof and a green wall in the interior underline the ecological character of the project. There is also extensive park landscaping – a publicly accessible park with social seating (steps) and a workout area has been created. The company GEMO has thus contributed to the transformation of the locality into a modern complex that meets the demands of contemporary higher education as well as the principles of sustainable development.

Key parameters of project:

Investor: Palacký University Olomouc

Designer: Ateliér Velehradský, s.r.o.
Contractor: GEMO a.s.

Realization date: 2023–2025

About GEMO:

GEMO a.s. is among the significant companies in building construction in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It executes timeless, modern residential, administrative, commercial, and industrial projects with an emphasis on sustainability and architectural quality, and for some, it also acts as their direct developer and investor. The company was founded in 1990 in Olomouc and has gradually become one of the biggest players in the field, maintaining exclusively Czech ownership. It employs approximately 470 people and is part of the GEMO holding group, along with the companies GEMO SLOVENSKO, spol. s r.o. and GEMO DEVELOPMENT, spol. s r.o.

For more information, please contact:

Radka L. Kerschbaumová

Crest Communications a.s.

radka.kerschbaumova@crestcom.cz

+420 733 185 662

Photograph no.1-2: The construction company GEMO a.s. successfully completed work on the expansion of the Faculty of Medicine campus at Palacký University Olomouc: source:

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