A mixed team of students from the Faculty of Civil Engineering (FSv CTU) and the Faculty of Information Technology at the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) received an award at the Construction Hackathon 2026 for their proposal of an affordable housing project for the town of Kuřim.
As part of the competition assignment, the team—Anastasija Skotorenko, Rebeka Uhlárová, Tereza Uherková, Vojtěch Hart, Tomáš Masaryk, and Petr Fučík—developed a specific affordable housing project for the town of Kuřim, working with selected real plots in the area. Their proposals focused not only on the architectural design of residential buildings, but also on economic feasibility, energy concepts, and the overall sustainability of the solution. For this project, they received the Construction Industry Award, presented by a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
FIT CTU student Anastasija Skotorenko also created a concept for an application called BydliCheck as part of the project. This digital tool is designed to help municipalities verify the feasibility of affordable housing projects already in the early planning stages—from compliance with zoning plans, through cost estimates and energy demands, to financing options. The proposal also responded to the “paperless” construction principle and the need to simplify work with extensive project documentation.
“Our goal was not to create a finished product, but to design the logic and structure of a tool that would help municipalities navigate the process before the actual implementation of the project,” explains Anastasija Skotorenko. “I mainly contributed to designing the application structure, defining individual functions and their logic, and creating a simple interactive prototype that illustrates how the entire solution works,” she adds.
The BydliCheck prototype offers an overview of projects in the form of a simple dashboard, a catalog of standard housing types, and tools for basic planning on a map. It allows users to roughly verify compliance with zoning plans, estimate costs and energy demands, and explore options for public funding, including support from a simple AI assistant.
The goal of the Construction Hackathon 2026 was to connect students, experts, and industry representatives and to jointly seek innovative, digital, and sustainable solutions to current challenges in the construction sector. The main theme was affordable housing, which participants addressed through proposals aimed at increasing construction efficiency, leveraging modern technologies, automating processes, and improving the overall quality and sustainability of buildings.
The event, organized by the National Centre for Construction 4.0, took place from March 25 to 27, 2026, as part of the Architecture Festival at the Brno Exhibition Centre, under the auspices of the State Investment Support Fund and OBEC ON.
