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[00:01:59] This! Economic environment, hello,
[00:02:02] construction of housing for factories, schools, clinics, museums and
[00:02:06] roads, all of this are the results of the work of one of
[00:02:09] the key sectors of our country.
[00:02:12] Construction is a powerful driver of the Belarusian economy,
[00:02:15] which generates over 6% of GDP and
[00:02:18] billions in export revenue. What
[00:02:21] challenges does the industry face today, why is rental
[00:02:24] housing in the spotlight and what
[00:02:27] technologies will be in demand in the future? Let's discuss with experts
[00:02:31] right
[00:02:31] now.
[00:02:39] Today we have experts in our studio who are well-versed in matters
[00:02:43] of construction development. Vladimir Naumovich, First
[00:02:47] Deputy Minister of Architecture and Construction. Angelina
[00:02:50] Syromyatnikova, member of the Standing Commission on Housing
[00:02:54] Policy, Trade and Construction of the House
[00:02:56] of Representatives. Sergey Vlasik, First Deputy
[00:03:00] General Director of Belstroy Center. Tatyana
[00:03:03] Nikolaeva, General Director of Stroy
[00:03:06] Tech Norm enterprise. Dear guests, glad to see you in
[00:03:10] the Economic Environment studio. Today we are talking about construction.
[00:03:13] I suggest we start with a personal question. Please tell me, when was the
[00:03:17] last time you personally communicated with builders
[00:03:20] outside of your official duties, so to speak, personally,
[00:03:23] on your everyday matters? Well, surely during
[00:03:27] construction or renovation of your home,
[00:03:30] have you ever encountered delays, I don't
[00:03:34] know, budget overruns or perhaps substandard
[00:03:38] quality? Can construction be both
[00:03:42] inexpensive, fast, and high-quality, or
[00:03:45] will you have to choose only two options? I did
[00:03:49] renovations literally last year, so I want to give
[00:03:52] such vital advice, so that
[00:03:56] renovations and construction do not turn into walking through hell.
[00:04:31] then, probably, there was no leniency for the builders. I, let's
[00:04:35] say, probably in 99%
[00:04:39] of cases I do repairs myself. Probably,
[00:04:42] this is just professional deformation. Well, I
[00:04:46] think I will do better. This is the first thing. Second,
[00:04:49] I always want to understand
[00:04:52] what, so to speak, is happening
[00:04:55] directly in this process. I also want to
[00:04:58] try it with my own hands. Materials,
[00:05:01] technologies, methods. Well, they say, if you want to do something well,
[00:05:05] do it yourself. This is a win-win tactic, but
[00:05:08] it's important to understand and have the relevant skills. Tatyana Aleksandrovna, well...
[00:05:12] you probably know building codes and regulations, established
[00:05:16] practice by heart, so your communication with
[00:05:19] builders was probably also biased. When was the
[00:05:22] last time you communicated with them about personal matters? About personal
[00:05:26] matters, quite a long time ago, mm-hmm, but I want
[00:05:29] to note that, probably, an important aspect is still
[00:05:33] the qualifications of these specialists, their experience and knowledge,
[00:05:36] skills,
[00:05:39] because it is they who...
[00:07:42] such a question as the creation of a rating of construction, engineering
[00:07:46] and contracting organizations. If the Ministry manages to implement
[00:07:49] this task in the near future, then on
[00:07:52] the state information resource,
[00:07:56] relevant information will appear, where individuals and legal entities will be able
[00:08:00] to determine for themselves, in accordance with the assigned rating,
[00:08:03] the most successful, correct, and accurate construction organization
[00:08:07] from the point of view of work. It is clear that the rating methodology
[00:08:11] will be hidden for that purpose.
[00:08:42] integral rating, and the end user will be able to review this rating and make
[00:08:46] their decision, which is very important for us,
[00:08:49] for people who have no direct connection to construction, an initiative
[00:08:53] that I hope will be implemented in the near future. Well, since
[00:08:56] construction is a national topic, we decided
[00:09:00] to find out people's opinions on the cost, completion times,
[00:09:03] and quality of construction work. We asked Minsk residents and even
[00:09:07] looked at social networks. Let's
[00:09:08] take a look.
[00:09:11] At the moment, I already have... in principle, the apartment is ready, but the most
[00:09:14] expensive part is the rough work, when you need to lay all the
[00:09:18] electrical, water, if in dollars,
[00:09:21] somewhere around 10,000, yes, but
[00:09:24] everything also depends on the team, how to hire
[00:09:27] masters. On March 1st, I received, completely, well,
[00:09:30] bare walls, and on July
[00:09:33] 21st, I already moved in in 2020, so at
[00:09:37] that time we were fine, we managed, we have 46 square meters, we spent
[00:09:41] about 15,000
[00:09:44] dollars on renovations, but we did everything ourselves except for
[00:09:47] the tiles in the bathroom. Well, I moved
[00:09:50] a long time ago in 2016, so
[00:09:53] Minsk has changed a lot, of course, during this time, Minsk World, especially these
[00:09:57] areas, Loshitsa is now being built up,
[00:10:00] and well, since they are probably building,
[00:10:03] it means there is, well, demand definitely, that is, with these prices for
[00:10:07] housing, there is demand from people, we go to school 227, my daughter goes to
[00:10:10] the swimming pool, well, we like everything. Everything is beautiful, clean,
[00:10:14] neat, the kindergarten was something to compare with, the kindergarten in
[00:10:18] the area where we lived before was such, well, quite
[00:10:20] old, but here is a new, generally very beautiful kindergarten,
[00:10:55] and houses
[00:10:58] are such, well, rural. Now,
[00:11:02] of course, they are building fast, well, I have been living in
[00:11:05] Vesnyanka since 1989, normal
[00:11:08] apartments, so they build, well, of course,
[00:11:11] now new materials, sometimes
[00:11:14] requirements have changed, but it seems to me that
[00:11:17] professionalism is professionalism, people
[00:11:21] are filming videos from windows, we are alive, the house survived, all, intact,
[00:11:25] these
[00:11:28] are Mapid panel buildings, built by Belarusians, builders from a country where the earth never shakes,
[00:11:31] built a quarter that survived what a whole
[00:11:35] city did not survive, the house is not destroyed by
[00:11:38] earthquakes, the house is destroyed by economy at the construction
[00:11:41] stage, check what your house is built of, especially
[00:11:44] if you are still just buying, one day it can
[00:11:48] save your life,
[00:11:51] well, we really liked the feedback from...
[00:13:56] and the housing code, many changes
[00:13:58] and additions will be made, again, some
[00:14:01] issues that are raised by the population, that
[00:14:05] concern the population, will be addressed by introducing these
[00:14:08] additions and changes, in particular, expanding
[00:14:11] the possibility of using housing checks, that is,
[00:14:15] the restriction on the criterion of
[00:14:17] needing to improve housing conditions is removed,
[00:14:21] as well as the use of property checks, which...
[00:15:37] there are objects that are implemented throughout the country for social purposes,
[00:15:41] civil construction and industrial construction, and at
[00:15:45] the same time, since 2022, the construction industry
[00:15:48] has been in a sufficiently positive, significant zone, according to
[00:15:51] the results of the previous five-year plan, significant results were achieved by the
[00:15:55] construction industry, by 2025, the gross
[00:15:58] value added in the construction sector was at the level
[00:16:01] of 108 percentage points, as I have already said, we reached the mark
[00:16:05] of 6.6 percentage points of GDP.
[00:17:07] So here the republic is moving towards fulfilling this indicator, as of today
[00:17:11] this parameter is at 39
[00:17:14] square meters, while, as for citizens, what
[00:17:18] everyone feels for themselves is the cost per square meter
[00:17:21] of housing, so if we talk about the target task of maintaining the cost per
[00:17:25] square meter of housing with state
[00:17:29] support, average to the level of average wages,
[00:17:32] then parity is ensured here at
[00:17:34] 80% of the cost. This is
[00:17:38] great, and we also need not to forget that
[00:17:41] this industry solves very serious
[00:17:44] social tasks, because its result is
[00:17:48] not only housing, it is also
[00:17:52] infrastructure, including social,
[00:17:55] hospitals, polyclinics and kindergartens and
[00:17:59] other facilities that we take for granted. Well,
[00:18:03] let's return to such very important
[00:18:06] industry-specific aspects. So, we...
[00:21:20] worked, the powers of local executive bodies were expanded over the five-year period
[00:21:23] to determine objects for immediate commencement of
[00:21:26] construction, including them in relevant
[00:21:30] Absolutely right, Decree 266, local executive committees
[00:21:34] received the right, regional executive committees to determine the list of objects, include
[00:21:37] them in the relevant important objects for the region
[00:21:41] and simplify a number of procedures,
[00:21:44] a number of procedures, which positively affects
[00:21:47] the timing, what you are saying. Any construction, the
[00:21:51] shorter the construction time, yes, it may be more expensive in terms of
[00:21:55] construction, but for the customer it is much more
[00:21:58] important to start implementing the investment idea earlier, complete
[00:22:01] the object and put it into operation so that this object starts
[00:22:05] working, be it social, be it industrial, be it
[00:22:08] residential construction.
[00:22:11] The Ministry built this system, of course, you rightly
[00:22:15] noted that this coordinate system
[00:22:18] is constantly being reviewed. A certain period has passed since
[00:22:22] the adoption of the code, now all its norms are, well, let's
[00:22:26] not say all, those norms that require correction taking into account
[00:22:29] practice, a number of regulatory documents are currently being revised,
[00:22:33] there are about ten of them, which are of important primary
[00:22:37] importance for the industry, in order to ensure the appropriate speed from
[00:22:40] making a decision to implement an object until the moment of commissioning
[00:22:44] it, and here the government has clearly
[00:22:47] set the relevant tasks.
[00:23:20] this system, well, historically proven by experience
[00:23:23] throughout the world, that the most effective is
[00:23:27] pricing, and the resource method, such
[00:23:30] an approach that implements this resource method, and its
[00:23:34] essence lies in the fact that for certain types
[00:23:37] of work, resource consumption standards
[00:23:41] are formed, including labor
[00:23:43] cost standards for technical workers
[00:23:46] when using certain... and it is
[00:24:21] approved based on the analysis of
[00:24:23] 2022, but this year we updated it, reviewed it,
[00:24:27] simplified it sufficiently, but still about
[00:24:31] 50 thousand estimated
[00:24:34] rates, in relation to about
[00:24:37] 10 thousand types of work, but it is
[00:24:41] in electronic form, so it is convenient
[00:24:44] to use, but we still need to recalculate these volumes into price,
[00:24:48] I just wanted to ask. For this, we have also
[00:24:52] been forming and monitoring
[00:24:55] prices in automatic mode for the past few years, so you
[00:24:58] essentially index these parameters, not only
[00:25:01] do we index, all our manufacturers in the Republic of Belarus and
[00:25:05] importers, they monthly
[00:25:08] enter information about prices
[00:25:11] for resources,
[00:25:13] materials into this database, and we always have up-to-date
[00:25:17] information,
[00:25:19] but we... based on these current
[00:25:22] prices, we also make average prices
[00:25:26] for construction materials,
[00:25:28] as of today, the estimator, we also have
[00:25:32] a separate software product, since September 1st it
[00:25:35] has become smart, we have
[00:25:38] prepared a new version of this product, this is
[00:25:42] an estimate for the work of estimators, and designers,
[00:25:46] customers, and contractors,
[00:26:41] an unchangeable contractual price, and the third is
[00:26:44] the actual cost, which is formed already based on
[00:26:47] the results, yes, and the problem we are solving is, of course, to make sure
[00:26:51] that the estimated cost approaches the actual cost. It is necessary
[00:26:54] to note that there is also a very important mechanism that
[00:26:58] the regulator uses, this is price level
[00:27:01] control.
[00:27:32] control over the price level, and here
[00:27:34] the Ministry of Architecture, as was rightly noted, almost in real
[00:27:38] time, sees the manufacturer's price,
[00:27:42] the wholesale price and the retail price, all
[00:27:46] of this is subject to monitoring and control from the other side, up to the adoption
[00:27:49] of individual decisions to limit profitability norms. Let's take a short
[00:27:53] commercial break, after which we will learn about advanced technologies in construction and
[00:27:57] the demand for our services abroad, don't
[00:27:59] switch.
[00:28:13] This is the economic environment, we continue to discuss
[00:28:16] construction, the development of the industry is given special
[00:28:20] importance at the highest level, our President
[00:28:23] emphasizes the need to increase exports
[00:28:27] of construction services, but not at the expense of Belarus, let's
[00:28:30] take a look.
[00:29:32] As of today, we are successfully implementing a number
[00:29:35] of investment projects there, this is primarily related to the
[00:29:39] construction of social facilities, kindergartens,
[00:29:42] schools and the like, where in principle our
[00:29:46] specialists organize
[00:29:49] this construction process, actually
[00:29:52] performing engineering services,
[00:29:56] attracting, so to speak, local labor
[00:29:59] resources of local contractors, well, and... again,
[00:30:02] with the mandatory condition of supplying Belarusian construction
[00:30:06] materials there, last year we already commissioned
[00:30:10] a school in the Leningrad
[00:30:13] region, Vladimir region,
[00:30:16] returning to the messages of the Head of State, today
[00:30:19] in the republic, appropriate conditions have been created to
[00:30:23] provide personnel for the internal needs
[00:30:26] of the republic, by the end of 2025, the construction
[00:30:30] complex will be replenished with 4
[00:30:33] thousand builders, this indicates that the internal conditions, the level
[00:30:37] of wages, the working conditions created in the republic,
[00:30:41] allow our specialists to return within the country,
[00:30:45] as for the specific task of increasing the export of services,
[00:30:48] as was rightly stated here, the main
[00:30:51] message is to enter the high-margin
[00:30:54] construction services market, this is engineering and
[00:30:57] design, than the base organization of the Ministry of Architecture
[00:31:01] Holding Belstroy center.
[00:31:15] is implemented by this organization, our design
[00:31:18] organization Belgosproekt, the balance of interests will be
[00:31:22] observed, not to the detriment of the interests of the republic, if we take
[00:31:25] the dynamics of export of services, then indeed, according to the results
[00:31:29] of last year, it reached maximum
[00:31:32] values of about one and a half billion
[00:31:36] dollars, this has already been announced and confirmed,
[00:31:40] this year, by the half-year mark, we have positive growth
[00:31:43] rates, as...
[00:32:15] we just discussed, what are the key guidelines and
[00:32:18] indicators laid down, so what is the main way we
[00:32:21] plan to achieve them? This, as I already mentioned, is
[00:32:25] achieving by 2030 the provision of 33
[00:32:28] square meters of housing per resident, in 5 years
[00:32:32] we need to build 5 million square meters
[00:32:36] of rental housing, this is a new direction that is being mastered
[00:32:39] in the republic, this is practically a quarter of the total volume that
[00:32:42] will be implemented. Somewhere
[00:34:17] this will attract specialists from large
[00:34:27] regional centers, from the capital, who are experienced
[00:34:29] professionals, but agree to relocate because they will be
[00:34:33] provided with a job and an apartment,
[00:34:36] rental housing acquires special attractiveness
[00:34:39] in small towns with a population of up to 2,000
[00:34:42] due to its possibility.
[00:39:44] as if they are known to us, we try to introduce them, they are certainly very expensive, this includes industrialization and robotization, of course, here
[00:39:48] the application of robotic technology, 3D printing -
[00:39:52] this is also a separate thing, when whole modules,
[00:39:56] whole buildings are printed. 3D or is this still just
[00:39:59] pilot, we can say that at one industry
[00:40:02] enterprise of the Belarusian Cement Company, a prototype
[00:40:06] of a corresponding printer
[00:40:09] that prints in concrete has been acquired, aha,
[00:40:12] but it is now more engaged in the production of small
[00:40:16] architectural forms, and let's say it is for the enterprise
[00:40:19] to gain experience and practice, to see how it works, yes, there is
[00:40:23] such experience. Good, what other technologies are promising? Well, 3D
[00:40:26] printing, what?
[00:40:33] regarding robotization, I specifically looked at some figures before the broadcast and want to say that the index of growth
[00:40:36] in autonomous construction, the development
[00:40:39] of autonomous construction machines, robotization in the world today
[00:40:43] is about
[00:40:43] 16.9%,
[00:40:47] I don't quite understand what automated means, is it
[00:40:49] this robotic machine at the construction site, I don't know, but can it
[00:40:53] tie rebar itself?
[00:40:56] It probably shouldn't vibrate concrete,
[00:40:59] tell me what it can do, plaster without stopping? This is
[00:41:02] a plastering station that was brought to it, it itself goes "zhik
[00:41:06] zhik", a tile layer, a tile layer that does not
[00:41:10] get tired, does not take breaks, you know, any
[00:41:13] tile layer can automatically lay a flat
[00:41:16] tile, but try to lay tiles with uneven
[00:41:19] geometry, you can't do without a qualified tiler,
[00:41:23] after all, personnel decide everything.
[00:42:10] square meters of space, where more than a hundred participants
[00:42:14] will be presented, guests from the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China,
[00:42:18] as well as Uzbekistan and other states will take part in the
[00:42:21] exhibition. Among other things, this year the highlight of the exhibition
[00:42:25] will be the discussion of creating a number of industry-specific
[00:42:28] platforms, yes, for various directions,
[00:42:31] solving pressing issues in construction, promising
[00:42:35] directions for the movement of the construction complex and solving some
[00:42:38] complex individual.
[00:42:41] tasks, among other things for all participants
[00:42:44] of the exhibition an introductory event
[00:42:48] will be organized from the point of view of what construction is, what it is to lay
[00:42:52] a block, how brickwork is laid, how
[00:42:55] a milling machine works, how a saw works, we will be glad to see everyone
[00:42:59] get acquainted with modern and new technologies, very interesting,
[00:43:02] I will definitely take my child and come, let's see what
[00:43:06] our builders will surprise us with this year, dear experts.
[00:43:40] let's say, capable of solving any problems in
[00:43:48] clean market, proven safety. We thank
[00:43:52] our guests and say goodbye to you. Build your future
[00:43:55] on a solid foundation and may the economic environment be
[00:43:59] favorable for you. Good
[00:44:00] bye.
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