In the professional construction community the use of Meva formwork in residential and administrative construction work is well known, whether in the examples of the Club Hotel Průhonice (1989 - Mammut, Alu types), the building of the Česká Spořitelna on Budějovické náměstí in Prague 4 (1990 - previously known as the DDR-Co-operative Farmers Building) or in the large number of residential buildings built by Prague Installations (StarTec, AluStar types), both in the Czech Republic and in construction of the residential neighbourhood of Qiryat Gat in Israel. Last year, this formwork (Mammut, Caro, MEP, Circo types) was also used by Skansa CZ in a monolithic construction of concrete structures for the Sazka Divize Arena. This article discusses the use of this formwork in tunnel construction.

This article brings to a close the discussion on the subject of the city's circle road in the western part of Prague. Articles in previous issues of Stavební listy attempted to clarify the issues that have accompanied the investor and developer in the process of proposing and designing the construction of the circle road in the western part of the city. Among the number of individual pieces of construction work in the western part of the circle road there remains to describe the intersection at the southern entrance area of the Strahov Tunnel - construction piece no. 9524 "The Strahov Tunnel - the 3rd construction project".

According to article 14 of the Agreement on the Foundation of the European Community (SES), the internal market of the European Community (EC) is founded on the principles of the free movement of persons, the free provision of services and the free movement of capital, but it is also of course especially lodged on the founding principle of the free movement of goods. The free movement of goods within the EC market is not just based on a customs union, which according to article 23 paragraph 1 of SES "covers the entire market in goods"; it also in a fundamental way is supported by the common business policy of the member countries, a commitment to adapt state business monopolies, and a ban on tax discrimination. The accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union (EU) on1 May 2004 will thus among other things also signify a fundamental change in the sense that the country will become part of the unified internal market of the EC, featuring the free movement of any kind of goods (products) that are capable of becoming the subject of a business transaction.

Over recent years the use of Sprinkler System Equipment has experienced massive growth and has become a regular component in a number of buildings. To date it has been requested mainly by foreign investors, even despite the fact that it involves relatively expensive equipment. The installation of fire sprinkler equipment has to date been requested to a lesser degree by state organs as part of building inspections, e.g. from the perspective of personal safety (large places of assembly) or for reasons of poor accessibility and high risk for fire fighters in the case of a fire (underground garage areas). With the issuing of regulations in ČSN 730804, appendix 1, "Garage Fire Safety", and in ČSN 730831, "Places of Assembly", the situation has changed considerably. These regulations introduce strict requirements demanding the installation of sprinkler system equipment on such sites. As a result there will be a significant increase in the number of sprinkler systems. The article provides an overall outline of some problems associated with the planning and installation of sprinkler systems, both from the perspective of the planner and from the perspective of the installation firm. Particular emphasis is put on the necessity of co-ordinating work with other professions from the very outset of any project.

In order to meet the heating needs of the main city of Iceland, Reykjavik, using geothermal resources it was necessary to build storage facilities of sufficient capacity for holding the hot water gained from several dozen wells. It was no easy task to combine the requirement of building a purely technical structure of sufficient capacity with the condition that it be located at an elevated site without it causing devaluation of the location or of the views from the surrounding areas.