During his regional work visit, Raimonds Vējonis visited the new building of the Rezekne Technical School’s Multifunctional Hall

On this year’s December 7 Raimonds Vējonis, the President of Latvia, came to Rezekne during his regional work visit where he met students and teachers from the Rezekne Technical School and experienced the premises of the Rezekne Technical School and the new building of the sports hall.

The ground floor of the new building will house a multifunctional hall, stage, dressing rooms, showers, toilet, and medical center; whereas the first floor will incorporate a hall, balconies, work premises of trainers, gym, and rooms for interest education.

In May 2017, a contract for the construction of the Multifunctional Hall at 11a Varonu Street, Rezekne was signed by LLC “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” and Rezekne Technical School.

The project was implemented over the course of two stages. First stage – new building for the Rezekne Technical School’s Academic Studies and Food Studies Laboratory. Second stage – reconstruction, heat insulation and window replacement of the Rezekne Technical School’s Dormitory.

Currently final works are taking place – finishing of ceilings, walls, floors and staircases (painting, tiling, laying linoleum; the hall’s floor now has solid ash parquet), new protective railings and radiators are installed in the hall, as well as sinks with mixing faucets, toilet-bowls and shower mixing faucets and luminaires. The hall now has basketball hoop structures, game scoreboard and claiming ropes.

All construction works at the new building of the Rezekne Technical School are scheduled to be finished by 4th quarter of 2018.

Overall costs of the project: EUR 3,968,957.00, including funding from the European Regional Development Fund in the amount of EUR 3,373,613.45 and State budget funding in the amount of EUR 595,343.55.