PeBeKa

PeBeKA has been constructing the mines since a half century. The company was established in April 1960. Since then the company has completed over 1000 kilometres underground excavations and gangways and it has sunk 27,5 kilometres copper shafts in mines. The company is currently sinking the 30th shaft for  KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. The specialists from PeBeKa were also the first contractors of the first line of Warsaw underground, they were driving tunnels and sinking the shafts all over the world and they were reconstructing monument chambers in “Wieliczka” and “Bochnia” Salt Mines.

The scientific conference dedicated to the most important company’s achievements was held on 23rd April 2010 in Lubin as a part of the main 50th anniversary jubilee celebration of Mine Construction Company PeBeKa S.A.

Among invited guests there were representatives of local authorities and the board of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A,  representatives of AGH University of Science and Technology and District Mining Office in Wroclaw and the pioneers of PeBeKa, who started constructing Copper Basin in 1960’s in twenty century.

The one of the main item on the conference programme was the papers dedicated to the history and technology achievements of the company:
- Review of shaft building technologies in LGOM area;
- PeBeKa in the world;
- Evolution of constructing the underground excavations by Mine Construction Company PeBeKa S.A. in Legnicki and Głogowski Copper District;
- Liquidation of P-III and P-IV shafts in Polkowice Wschodnie area;
- Technologies of tunneling and constructing underground station. Completion of the first line of Warsaw underground Metropolitan Building. 

During the celebration the pioneers of Copper Basin were also awarded thanks to whom the company started its 50 years’ history. 

Jan Ulrich, the first site engineer of L-III shaft of  “Lubin” mine was taken the floor  in the name of the eldest employees who recollected the first days of PeBeKa’s functioning in Lubin and difficult beginnings of  the huge mining undertakings.

The celebrations were accompanied by the exhibitions of pictures and documents, which are a real mine of knowledge of development of Polish engineering thoughts.

The jubilee publication of long-awaited 50 years' anniversary chronicle was also premiered on 23rd April.
The most important moments of company’s history and also the whole Copper Basin were presented on over 200 pages, richly illustrated. The chronicle also contains a description of project implementations, used technologies and unique memories of LGOM builders. 

Celebrations organizer didn’t forget about the local community, which for many years were permanently connected with the company, giving many specialists to Copper Basin. Jubilee exhibition illustrating the 50 years‘ activity of PeBeKa appeared on the street.