Published: 2025-03-05

The heritage of Road Construction Institute in Warsaw

Marek Mistewicz

70th Anniversary of the Road and Bridge Research Institute

Abstract

The Road and Bridge Research Institute cultivates the traditions of the Road Construction Institute, its legal ancestor. It was established in 1955 by virtue of a resolution of the Council of Ministers adopted at the request of Aleksander Gajkowicz M.Sc. Eng., director of the Central Office of Public Roads. The Institute was created by Polish engineers whose biographies were proudly embedded in the history of the two world wars. In post-war Poland, they found safe asylum at the institute, what enabled them to work in their profession to rebuild the Polish road network. Kazimierz Sokalski M.Sc. Eng. was appointed by the minister to the position of the director of the Institute. Following him, Franciszek Koryciński M.Sc. Eng. became the director of the Institute. Włodzimierz Skalmowski, professor of the Warsaw University of Technology, was elected the chairman of the Institute’s Scientific Council. From 1955 on, in the monthly magazine “Drogownictwo”, the Institute was publishing “Przegląd Dokumentacyjny Drogownictwa” and “Biuletyn Instytutu Budownictwa Drogowego”. In 1956 the Institute began to publish its own quarterly “Prace Instytutu Budownictwa Drogowego”. Being a state institute, it faced with the problem of assembling staff that would enable it to carry out its statutory tasks. Employment and development were limited by the insufficient funds from the State Budget. After the Institute had operated for four years, the Government Commission to Investigate the Activities of State Institutes recommended its transformation into the Central Center for Research and Development of Road Technology. From the time its name was changed again to the Road and Bridge Research Institute, it has continued its activities, noting achievements that have had social implications with a nationwide or worldwide range.

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bridges, research institute, road administration, roads

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Mistewicz, M. (2025). The heritage of Road Construction Institute in Warsaw: 70th Anniversary of the Road and Bridge Research Institute. Roads and Bridges – Drogi I Mosty, 24(1), 5–26. Retrieved from https://rabdim.pl/index.php/rb/article/view/v24n1p5

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