Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Műszaki Mechanika és Mezőgazdasági Géplaboratórium épülete - The Building of the Applied and Agricultural Mechanics Laboratory Gy. Balogh Ágnes
I I 1 76 The year 1970 saw the completion of the realization designs of the pulsator installed in the concrete laboratory in 1972. In the laboratory of the Department of Railway Vehicles a (brake-) testing bench was made beneath the floor level in 1973 to analyse railway brake mechanisms. Designs completed in 1976 and approved in 1977 contained the painting, decorating, maintenance work and the replacement of the panelling, as well as the demolition of the warehouse built in the gateway anomalously at the Department of Building Materials and its laboratory. The entrance hall now became an open space again furnished with glass cabinets. In the corner room upstairs used simultaneously as a reading room, consultation room and library by the Department of Applied Mechanics a gallery was built in 1977 along two walls disused before. In 1982 an investment programme plan was worked out for the extension of the northern wing. An additional storey to top the deck-roofed parts of the MM building (above the two-storey part next to the halls and the mill] was also designed. The conversion of the mill building (including the cellar and three storeys) was also projected. Plans included the demolition of the wooden ceiling and stairs here as well as the construction of new solid roofings. Laboratories, stores and staff rooms to be used by the Department of Applied Mechanics and Building Materials would have been housed here. However, all this remained in blueprint. All the buildings of the university were surveyed once again in 1986 and the conditions of the institutions were documented. In line with the survey plans, stores and a laboratory for students were built to replace the mill. The only engine-hall (in the south-eastern corner of the ground floor) was divided into three smaller laboratories. The storeys of the tower were used as laboratories and staff rooms by the Department of Agricultural Mechanics at that time. In 1985 the so-called mill building belonging to the same department was converted. New reinforced concrete ceilings were built and a new staircase was constructed to replace the old wooden one. The new halls functioned as engine laboratory and IT labs. When renovating the thermal supply in 1986 a store room in the cellar of the tower level was converted into a caloric centre. In line with the pavement a shaft was built whilst the expansion tank was set up on the ceiling of the tower. In 1988 the apartment, the foreman's room and the material depot in the street part of the MG Building was terminated and their walls were pulled down. The room thus gained was used to extend the workshop. Between 1991 and 1996, during the first phase of the reconstruction of the Department of Building Materials the engine-hall No. IV, the mechanics and precision engineering workshop, the staircase and the rooms upstairs were modernised to be followed by the modernisation
