The Presidential Commission for the Recovery of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) closes 2025 with a set of interventions aimed at restoring, protecting and revitalizing essential areas of the University City of Caracas (CUC). Among the works in progress is the rehabilitation of the auditorium of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, which will celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2026.
In addition, the interconnection of chilled water pipes is carried out between the Aula Magna and the Concert Hall in order to make the air conditioning system of these spaces independent.
At the same time, progress is being made in the demolition, mobilization of furniture and assets of the so-called “Ciudad Tablita”, an office annex located between the Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, which is not part of the original project by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva.
Meanwhile, in the building of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, work is being done on the cleaning and rehabilitation of the west wing of the basement, as well as the recovery of its cafeteria. The rehabilitation of the Biochemistry laboratories located at the “José Gregorio Hernández” Institute of Experimental Medicine also continues.
Maintenance work
Likewise, an area of approximately 290 thousand square meters has been covered. Likewise, the year closes with the inspection, repair and maintenance of civil, electrical and electromechanical works in several of the rehabilitated buildings. This includes masonry work, painting, lighting, air conditioning, among others.
All drinking water tanks are also defrosted and thoroughly fumigated against rodents and insects, both aerial and crawling.
Additionally, the preventive and corrective maintenance of 22 elevators and 5 forklifts is advancing, as well as the phytosanitary treatment of the campus trees, the cleaning of the ceilings, the hallway lighting process, and the collection of solid waste.
Final balance
To date, the Commission has carried out 93 work fronts. It has recovered 75 buildings, 689 classrooms, 619 offices, 495 bathrooms, 238 laboratories, 14 fields, 13 auditoriums and the same number of amphitheaters, nine gymnasiums, five operating rooms, two offices and six works from the “Synthesis of the Arts” collection. In addition, 102 ramps have been built.
In this sense, during the recovery process, 86 works have been completed and there are currently seven works in progress.
In total, 172,108 square meters have been waterproofed, as well as floor maintenance and recovery work on 196,576 square meters. In turn, 2,594 meters of gas pipeline and 13 pumping valves have been installed.
In 2026, the recovery, rehabilitation and preservation of the oldest study house in the country will continue, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
Source: Press release
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