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Construction sector least hit by pandemic - infrastructure min.

Adamczyk noted that 1.5 million jobs in the construction sector are "not at risk". Darek Delmanowicz/PAP

Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk said on Monday that the coronavirus disease will not slow down construction work and assured that 1.5 million jobs in the sector are not at risk.

Gas what! Baltic Pipe gas pipeline construction to start within days, says president

Announcing the start of construction work, President Duda said the project would be “very good news for Poland, and not just for the near future, but I deeply believe that for the coming decades."

Polish bulldozer receives 'Oscar of design' award

The TD-16N caterpillar bulldozer produced in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland, has become the first item of construction machinery produced in Poland ever to win the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award, known as the 'Oscar of design.'

Fifty years ago today Lubomirski Palace was cut from its foundations and ROTATED 74 degrees - to fit ‘aesthetic vision’ of city planners

Deciding the newly rebuilt palace interfered with their architectural concept, post-war planners placed the 8,000-tonne, 65-metre-long and 18-metre-wide palace on 16 tracks and then spent 49 days moving it to its current location.

Come fly with me: construction boss pays for employees to fly home from virus-hit Spain

Nearly 50 people took advantage of the free flight home.

Poland's construction output rises in February - stats office

Poland's construction output increased by 5.5 percent year on year in February 2020 and by 14.1 percent month on month, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Friday.

‘The only way is up’, as construction market sees largest growth in EU

The latest figures from Eurostat show a 2 percent growth in Poland’s construction sector compared to the EU average which saw a 0.5 percent decline.

Budma international construction fair opens in Poznań on Tuesday

The Budma International Construction and Architecture Fair, described by its organisers as the biggest construction sector event in Europe, opens at the MTP exhibition venue in Poznań (western Poland) on Tuesday.

Kraków students build first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland

Students from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (southern Poland) have constructed the first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland. The footbridge is 3.35 m long and is able to support weights of up to 200 kg, the university announced.

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Sport

Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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