Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Kazánház és a kémény - The Boiler-House and the chimney Gy. Balogh Ágnes
1 9 8 was conveyed to the heaters of the rooms. It was then a modern solution that corridors, stairwells and wet areas were also integrated in the system. Rooms of largervolumes (such as auditoriums, the library, assembly hall, laboratory and workshops) had mixed air-steam heating equipped with distant signal apparatus, thermostat and ventillation apparatus. In 1926 a permit was issued to increase the height of the 39,4-4 m chimney to 55 metres after designs confirmed with structural calculations. A section of 12,8 metres was pulled down to the top plane of the reservoir, and then by constructing a 28,36 m masonry extension the ultimate height was reached. This project was completed in 1930. Several photographs made in the 1930s document the chimney in its uniquely tall format. Supplying water to operate the water engines ofthe Department ofWater Engines then (today: Department of Hydrodynamic Systems), the reservoir housed in the L Building is out of use at present. The Boiler-Room suffered no serious damages during World War II. Heating was restarted in January, 1947 with coal supply of 63 wagons. During reconstruction works in 1948 a bath for the staff and a room next to it forthe scuttle-men was realised by walling off the former coal depot on the ground floor ofthe northern wing ofthe building. In 1949-1950 new boiler-rooms were installed (4 Tischbein, 2 BW), which necessitated new foundations in the basement. In November 1950 building permit was issued to construct the spacious irregular-shape underground coal depot north of the building in 1951 with access from the basement of the Boiler-Room. Its shape essentially followed the contours of the area between the MT Building and the Engine Laboratory. This space with a pillar frame and underribbed R-C ceiling featured retainings to house the passages used for storing coal, as well as a coal conveyor with tracks. Before the construction of the depot, coal was stored in larger piles in the open "on the external area of the university", between Ae and St Buildings and beside the Boiler-House. Plans of the single-storey flat-roof annex with brickwork to be built next to the southern side of the building were made in 1951 to contain service functions in the ventilation A DÍSZES KÉMÉNYVÉG RÉSZLETRAJZA DETAIL OF THE ORNATE CHIMNEY-TOP
