The construction of the Central Dispatching Office will allow remote traffic control on important railways in the Czech Republic.

The construction of the Central Dispatching Office will allow remote traffic control on important railways in the Czech Republic. It will concentrate many remote controlled stations into a single point, thus bringing financial savings, staff reduction, superstructures such as automatic travel way, carriage, locomotive and ERTMS management, interconnection with other system and increased railway safety. The railway infrastructure modernisation incorporated into the TEN-T network will allow connection of the Czech Republic to railway networks in the neighbouring countries and implementation of the EU parameters into these networks will increase its quality and capacity.

The CDO building is located in the Balabenka area, a triangular space lined with railway tracks on all three sides.

The almost square (approximately 40 x 43 m) building is located in a rectangular network with other adjacent objects of purely technical nature. The whole area is connected to Sokolovská Street.

The proposed Central Dispatching Office building is an operating and administrative object combining two functions – administrative with immediate relation to the traffic control and central dispatching with facilities controlling traffic in the crucial section of the main railway routes in the Czech Republic. The second such site in the Czech Republic is CDO Přerov.

The mass of the building is divided into two parts. A glazed lightweight hardscape and a heavy mass of the higher floors. This arrangement corresponds to the operational sectioning of the building. The lower section (hardscape) is administrative, the upper section is operating with control halls. The top part is sectioned into alternating glazed and solid surfaces supplemented with two cuts from the eastern and western sides. The entire object thus creates a symbiosis between the appearance, form and operational and functional features.

The bottom part is open to all sides with fully glazed surfaces covered with aluminium shading slats. The main entrance to the central section from the eastern side is covered with an awning. A light strip covers the entire perimeter above the glazed ground level.

From the east and west, the upper part is sectioned by glazed cuts between the halls, thus supplementing the overall plasticity of the facades and the entire object. The glazed sections on the east and west facades are on the level of the sheathing. All glazed surfaces except the east and west facades in the cuts are covered with shading slats.

The solid surfaces are designed as supply-air facades with large-size metallic silver-grey panels. The glazed facades and shading are aluminium system units. The aluminium structures are graphite grey.