title: Ministry of Transportation and Construction (Poland)
text: # Ministry of Transportation and Construction (Poland)
  
  Ministry of Transportation and Construction (Polish: Ministerstwo Transportu i Budownictwa) was formed on 31 October 2005, from transformation of Ministry of Infrastructure.
  
  It was abolished on 5 May 2006 as a result of signing a coalition agreement between the Law and Justice party, Self-Defense and the LPR. It was replaced by Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Marine Economy.
  
  ## Headquarters
  
  The building of the Ministry of Communication is a modernist office building at 4/6 Tytusa Chałubińskiego Street in Warsaw, erected between 1929 and 1931, designed by Rudolf Świerczyński.
  
  In the years 1948-1950 the complex of buildings was significantly expanded according to the design of Bohdan Pniewski. The high-rise part can be considered as the first skyscraper built in Warsaw, and probably in the whole country after World War II.
  
  In the period 1945-2000 the Polish State Railways were also managed from this building.
  
  ## Ministers of Transportation and Construction
  
  | Portrait | Name | party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Prime Minister (Cabinet) |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Jerzy Polaczek | Law and Justice | 31 October 2005 | 5 May 2006 | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Marcinkiewicz) |
  