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

By February, 1907 the final designs (scale 1:100) of the timber roof structure were made and signed by Pecz and Ferenc Brünnen The general design made by Pál Lipták forthe reinforced concrete works and the configuration of the cover panels bear the same date. By August the 1 AO scale designs of the ceilings for the cement laboratory had been completed, whilst December saw the completion of the 1:20 scale drawings for of the eaves and cornices details.

Pecz had finalised his designs for the water tower by October, 1907. He included an upper water-tank in a room lit by slit windows on the top storey. The windmill pump to drive wind-engines was set on the terrace above the upper water-tank beneath which there was no roofing in the tower only narrow cantilevered corridors along the wall on

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four levels. The cellar level housed the lower cistern. Originally there had been a cellar only here and beneath the entrance to the courtyard in the whole building. On May Uth, 1909 designs of the continuous hemp-rope driven goods lift powered by hand were approved for 100 kg load and 6,90 m lift height.

Pecz, who was fond of modern technologies, designed all his five university buildings with fire-proof ferro-concrete ceilings. The foundations were made of concrete, the largespan engine-hall was covered with steel truss grill. For all the other tall-roofed parts he