How long will it take to save the task of building the barracks in the investment plan to hand the facility over to users? The management of the Military Property Agency claims that facilities built in the 1970s and 1980s of prefabricated reinforced concrete technology, based on repetitive projects, can be "delivered" in 24 months. This ambitious timetable is being reviewed.
Since the beginning of writing about construction investments in the military, I have been passionate about the pace of construction. It is the consequence of the needs and financial capabilities of the contracting authority and the reliability and competence of the contractors. The time of commencement and completion of the task shall be indicated in the tender papers and subsequently confirmed in the implementing agreement, together with penalties for any errors and delays. Everything is clear, but with the pace of the investment, it has been different. A twelve years ago, I remember a large renovation of the hangar, in which the workers appeared only before a visit of supervision from Warsaw and who left immediately after 3:30 erstwhile the manager signaled that the control had left. No wonder that the renovation ended with a considerable slip, as did the capital rebuilding of the sports stadium at the airport in Dęblin. These are of course utmost examples from a hard past, erstwhile due to the deficiency of money in the defence budget from planning and starting the investment to hand over keys to the property's hosts it was 7 to 8 years ago, and bids were won by unreliable companies.
It is not essential to explain that in the context of the formation of the next 2 divisions of land troops, specified terms and methods of building are unthinkable. Fortunately, erstwhile I drive by or visit units, I see that they grow like yeast, and the crews of professionals, if the weather permits, wrap from morning to evening. The fast pace pays off to contractors and mostly they are already verified companies, due to the fact that the awarding entities are not only guided by the price, but they premium experience and settle contractors with the timeliness of performance of erstwhile orders. This was felt by the company from Ostróda, eliminated from the tenders in 2025 due to the collapse of the plan and cost documentation deadlines for another military facility the year before. Subsequent delays are out of the question.
Meanwhile, management Military Property Agency He's got an thought for building up even faster. It proposes a return to technology utilized in the 1970s and 1980s, utilizing reinforced concrete prefabricates. Elements ready for instant installation on site, manufactured under controlled mill conditions with better, repetitive quality and precision of performance, would be imported into the construction site. This is simply a concept akin to modular construction, which he is happy to usage Military method Academywho ordered the construction of a dormitory and a teaching building in this technology. At the university construction site, modules of individual rooms were imported, prepared in an external factory. In favorable weather, the assembly was rapid. If the foundations were already standing, the building was ready to be picked up after six weeks of work on the site.
Construction ground
It is precisely from prefabrications, on behalf of AMW, that AMW Sinevia builds 2 staff-coach buildings with accompanying infrastructure for command 1st Legion Infantry Division in Ciechanów. The deputy president of the AMW Colonel Przemysław Gogolinski points out that in June 2025 there was a "sew", excavations under the foundations began in July, and in mid-January, erstwhile the country squeezed the frost, 1 barracks had reached a strict closed state and was finished; the another had the first level ready and in a fewer weeks should besides be covered and closed, ready for interior work. – In January 2027 both buildings will be transferred into use. We estimation that the construction in the field will take 18 months – the officer emphasizes.
The construction of reinforced concrete prefabricates is so efficient that the management of AMW and AMW Sinevia is considering acquiring the capacity to produce them on their own. As president Marcin Horyń told me, the anticipation of buying an existing company located in the mediate of the country is being analysed, which would supply the construction in Poland with ready elements. – Production of prefabricates will be useful for investments on the premises of units or for the construction of fortification elements Eastern Shields. And if there were free powers, Sinevia could return to housing – she would put up blocks and boarding houses – Horyn says.
Both prefabricated and modular technology have disadvantages and advantages. Buildings consist of modules or repetitive wall, level and stairboards reduce the request for assembly teams in military territory, which besides reduces the cost of investment for wages. The transfer of a crucial part of the works from the construction site to production halls besides limits the impact of atmospheric conditions on their course and quality.
It is understandable that prefabricated buildings should have more impact opposition (shards, penetration of tiny arms ammunition) than modules. In contrast, the usage of steel modules and their advanced level of preparation for the installation at the mark site provides the anticipation of relocation or fast expansion of the facilities in the future. The common disadvantage of both technologies – from the point of view of users – is that after ordering and launching production nothing or almost nothing can change or rebuild them in "blocks".
– presently we are in a phase of a kind of comparative polygonal research," said Colonel Gogolinski. – In the View we invest in the barracks and canteen placed in conventional technology. From prefabricated buildings are created in Ciechanów, and from modules with steel structure we prepare 2 barracks for 1 August Saper Battalion. After these 3 investments have been completed, we will sum up the experience and present it to the supervisors.
Instead of containers
Interestingly, a container camp was originally to be built in Augustów, a forested area. akin to those prepared by the infrastructure managements in Lublin, Wielbark, Koniecki, Olecki, Trzebień, Karlik in fresh years. But it did not. – We sat down, analysed the task, counted the time essential to build the camp, including excluding the area from forest production, taking it into military condition and obtaining permits. The consequence was combined with an alternate option – fixed construction. Containers would be faster and would most likely cost around PLN 30 million, but we found that modular buildings could only be built six months later and would already be a mark infrastructure, whose life will be much longer than container buildings. We felt that the construction of modular barracks in Augustów was more advantageous for the army – Colonel Gogolinski admits.
The consortium building the August barracks was given 21 months to plan the buildings, get construction approvals, and build and get approval to usage them. Thus, it seems that the companies active in the task will be able to transfer the bomb squad buildings faster than the personnel and military recruitment centres will be able to complete the battalion 100% in terms of individual records and equipment.
Another chance to usage prefabricates is to build a office for the recently created Medical Army office in Kraków. AMW was designated as an investor to order the construction of a staff building for DKWM. – We intend to usage a repetitive project, already implemented for the command of the 1st Legion Infantry Division, with insignificant functional modifications. We promised the future user that if he accepted specified architecture, 2 years after the introduction of the task to the investment plan at the P8 Board of economical Planning SG WP (based on the previously approved by the Minister of Defence of the proposal) he would receive the finished building. Six months for documentary cases, 18 for construction – says president Horyn.
Of course, last year's legal changes are crucial for specified extremist acceleration. Thanks to the MON legislative initiative, the Act on the preparation and implementation of strategical investments in the field of defence needs of the state does not require any approval to build, simplify and shorten another bureaucratic procedures since 7 September 2025. “We hope that this Kraków task will shortly be implemented into the plan,” said Colonel Gogolinski. It points out that for the sake of improving the investment process, commanders curious in the fast formation of fresh facilities in subordinate units can now submit simplified, multi-page investment applications. It will present a repetitive plan of the building that best meets the needs of the sub-division or service for which it is intended, e.g. kind Ciechanów 1, Happy 2 or Siedlce 3 (working names), coming from a pool of standard construction projects developed by plan companies from which copyright was acquired. It will no longer be essential to make respective ten-page elaborates, detailing the subject of the order, which will make it importantly easier for people who are not acquainted with the construction of the building and the nuances of the construction law.
Two years
Twenty-four months! It's a turbo revolution compared to 6–8 years. Another change is required to be full of happiness: the approach of the commanders to the construction process – accepting standardized, repetitive architectural designs alternatively of ordering concepts adapted to the tastes of "płk. Nowak" or "gen. Kowalski". due to the fact that individual wishes always hold the preparation and maintenance of construction and increase its cost. – In the 1st Legion Infantry Division we have already found knowing and willingness to cooperate. In a fewer years, the effects of this approach will be seen in Red Bora and Grajewo – announced president Horyń and Colonel Gogolinski.
Fingers crossed.
