Civil Engineering in AAS Collections

Zemská jubilejní výstava 1891

The set of Civil Engineering collection is closely related to the collections stored in the NTM's archive and also to the 3D Civil Engineering collection. Represented here are collections of major figures and companies active from roughly the end of the 19th century to present (A. Lanna, B. Belada, firmy Brázdil and Ješ, M. Klement, K. Friedrich, among others).

The sphere of construction is represented by plans of historical construction projects, road maps, photographs from building sites of roads and instructional texts. The Bridges archive collection features competition designs from competitions for bridges in Prague (drawings, plans, photographs, calculations and documents for wooden, chain, steel, stone and reinforced concrete bridges in Czech and Austrian-Hungarian territory, as well as photographs and plans of bridges no longer existing. čistící stanice kanalizace The Civil Engineering collection also includes photography albums and documents on natural disasters. Hydraulic engineering is represented by a collection of photographs and plans on river regulation (Elbe, Vltava), the construction of weirs (Kolín, Štětí), sluices (Obříství), hydro-electric plants (Hradec Králové), canals, dams, etc. The area of waterworks engineering, sewerage and gasworks is also represented. Among the rarer archive documents we can find, for instance, drawings of the Malostrana waterworks from the late 18th century and the plan for the Hradčany waterworks.