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00:01:59This! Economic environment, hello,
00:02:02construction of housing for factories, schools, clinics, museums and
00:02:06roads, all of this are the results of the work of one of
00:02:09the key sectors of our country.
00:02:12Construction is a powerful driver of the Belarusian economy,
00:02:15which generates over 6% of GDP and
00:02:18billions in export revenue. What
00:02:21challenges does the industry face today, why is rental
00:02:24housing in the spotlight and what
00:02:27technologies will be in demand in the future? Let's discuss with experts
00:02:31right
00:02:31now.
00:02:39Today we have experts in our studio who are well-versed in matters
00:02:43of construction development. Vladimir Naumovich, First
00:02:47Deputy Minister of Architecture and Construction. Angelina
00:02:50Syromyatnikova, member of the Standing Commission on Housing
00:02:54Policy, Trade and Construction of the House
00:02:56of Representatives. Sergey Vlasik, First Deputy
00:03:00General Director of Belstroy Center. Tatyana
00:03:03Nikolaeva, General Director of Stroy
00:03:06Tech Norm enterprise. Dear guests, glad to see you in
00:03:10the Economic Environment studio. Today we are talking about construction.
00:03:13I suggest we start with a personal question. Please tell me, when was the
00:03:17last time you personally communicated with builders
00:03:20outside of your official duties, so to speak, personally,
00:03:23on your everyday matters? Well, surely during
00:03:27construction or renovation of your home,
00:03:30have you ever encountered delays, I don't
00:03:34know, budget overruns or perhaps substandard
00:03:38quality? Can construction be both
00:03:42inexpensive, fast, and high-quality, or
00:03:45will you have to choose only two options? I did
00:03:49renovations literally last year, so I want to give
00:03:52such vital advice, so that
00:03:56renovations and construction do not turn into walking through hell.
00:04:31then, probably, there was no leniency for the builders. I, let's
00:04:35say, probably in 99%
00:04:39of cases I do repairs myself. Probably,
00:04:42this is just professional deformation. Well, I
00:04:46think I will do better. This is the first thing. Second,
00:04:49I always want to understand
00:04:52what, so to speak, is happening
00:04:55directly in this process. I also want to
00:04:58try it with my own hands. Materials,
00:05:01technologies, methods. Well, they say, if you want to do something well,
00:05:05do it yourself. This is a win-win tactic, but
00:05:08it's important to understand and have the relevant skills. Tatyana Aleksandrovna, well...
00:05:12you probably know building codes and regulations, established
00:05:16practice by heart, so your communication with
00:05:19builders was probably also biased. When was the
00:05:22last time you communicated with them about personal matters? About personal
00:05:26matters, quite a long time ago, mm-hmm, but I want
00:05:29to note that, probably, an important aspect is still
00:05:33the qualifications of these specialists, their experience and knowledge,
00:05:36skills,
00:05:39because it is they who...
00:07:42such a question as the creation of a rating of construction, engineering
00:07:46and contracting organizations. If the Ministry manages to implement
00:07:49this task in the near future, then on
00:07:52the state information resource,
00:07:56relevant information will appear, where individuals and legal entities will be able
00:08:00to determine for themselves, in accordance with the assigned rating,
00:08:03the most successful, correct, and accurate construction organization
00:08:07from the point of view of work. It is clear that the rating methodology
00:08:11will be hidden for that purpose.
00:08:42integral rating, and the end user will be able to review this rating and make
00:08:46their decision, which is very important for us,
00:08:49for people who have no direct connection to construction, an initiative
00:08:53that I hope will be implemented in the near future. Well, since
00:08:56construction is a national topic, we decided
00:09:00to find out people's opinions on the cost, completion times,
00:09:03and quality of construction work. We asked Minsk residents and even
00:09:07looked at social networks. Let's
00:09:08take a look.
00:09:11At the moment, I already have... in principle, the apartment is ready, but the most
00:09:14expensive part is the rough work, when you need to lay all the
00:09:18electrical, water, if in dollars,
00:09:21somewhere around 10,000, yes, but
00:09:24everything also depends on the team, how to hire
00:09:27masters. On March 1st, I received, completely, well,
00:09:30bare walls, and on July
00:09:3321st, I already moved in in 2020, so at
00:09:37that time we were fine, we managed, we have 46 square meters, we spent
00:09:41about 15,000
00:09:44dollars on renovations, but we did everything ourselves except for
00:09:47the tiles in the bathroom. Well, I moved
00:09:50a long time ago in 2016, so
00:09:53Minsk has changed a lot, of course, during this time, Minsk World, especially these
00:09:57areas, Loshitsa is now being built up,
00:10:00and well, since they are probably building,
00:10:03it means there is, well, demand definitely, that is, with these prices for
00:10:07housing, there is demand from people, we go to school 227, my daughter goes to
00:10:10the swimming pool, well, we like everything. Everything is beautiful, clean,
00:10:14neat, the kindergarten was something to compare with, the kindergarten in
00:10:18the area where we lived before was such, well, quite
00:10:20old, but here is a new, generally very beautiful kindergarten,
00:10:55and houses
00:10:58are such, well, rural. Now,
00:11:02of course, they are building fast, well, I have been living in
00:11:05Vesnyanka since 1989, normal
00:11:08apartments, so they build, well, of course,
00:11:11now new materials, sometimes
00:11:14requirements have changed, but it seems to me that
00:11:17professionalism is professionalism, people
00:11:21are filming videos from windows, we are alive, the house survived, all, intact,
00:11:25these
00:11:28are Mapid panel buildings, built by Belarusians, builders from a country where the earth never shakes,
00:11:31built a quarter that survived what a whole
00:11:35city did not survive, the house is not destroyed by
00:11:38earthquakes, the house is destroyed by economy at the construction
00:11:41stage, check what your house is built of, especially
00:11:44if you are still just buying, one day it can
00:11:48save your life,
00:11:51well, we really liked the feedback from...
00:13:56and the housing code, many changes
00:13:58and additions will be made, again, some
00:14:01issues that are raised by the population, that
00:14:05concern the population, will be addressed by introducing these
00:14:08additions and changes, in particular, expanding
00:14:11the possibility of using housing checks, that is,
00:14:15the restriction on the criterion of
00:14:17needing to improve housing conditions is removed,
00:14:21as well as the use of property checks, which...
00:15:37there are objects that are implemented throughout the country for social purposes,
00:15:41civil construction and industrial construction, and at
00:15:45the same time, since 2022, the construction industry
00:15:48has been in a sufficiently positive, significant zone, according to
00:15:51the results of the previous five-year plan, significant results were achieved by the
00:15:55construction industry, by 2025, the gross
00:15:58value added in the construction sector was at the level
00:16:01of 108 percentage points, as I have already said, we reached the mark
00:16:05of 6.6 percentage points of GDP.
00:17:07So here the republic is moving towards fulfilling this indicator, as of today
00:17:11this parameter is at 39
00:17:14square meters, while, as for citizens, what
00:17:18everyone feels for themselves is the cost per square meter
00:17:21of housing, so if we talk about the target task of maintaining the cost per
00:17:25square meter of housing with state
00:17:29support, average to the level of average wages,
00:17:32then parity is ensured here at
00:17:3480% of the cost. This is
00:17:38great, and we also need not to forget that
00:17:41this industry solves very serious
00:17:44social tasks, because its result is
00:17:48not only housing, it is also
00:17:52infrastructure, including social,
00:17:55hospitals, polyclinics and kindergartens and
00:17:59other facilities that we take for granted. Well,
00:18:03let's return to such very important
00:18:06industry-specific aspects. So, we...
00:21:20worked, the powers of local executive bodies were expanded over the five-year period
00:21:23to determine objects for immediate commencement of
00:21:26construction, including them in relevant
00:21:30Absolutely right, Decree 266, local executive committees
00:21:34received the right, regional executive committees to determine the list of objects, include
00:21:37them in the relevant important objects for the region
00:21:41and simplify a number of procedures,
00:21:44a number of procedures, which positively affects
00:21:47the timing, what you are saying. Any construction, the
00:21:51shorter the construction time, yes, it may be more expensive in terms of
00:21:55construction, but for the customer it is much more
00:21:58important to start implementing the investment idea earlier, complete
00:22:01the object and put it into operation so that this object starts
00:22:05working, be it social, be it industrial, be it
00:22:08residential construction.
00:22:11The Ministry built this system, of course, you rightly
00:22:15noted that this coordinate system
00:22:18is constantly being reviewed. A certain period has passed since
00:22:22the adoption of the code, now all its norms are, well, let's
00:22:26not say all, those norms that require correction taking into account
00:22:29practice, a number of regulatory documents are currently being revised,
00:22:33there are about ten of them, which are of important primary
00:22:37importance for the industry, in order to ensure the appropriate speed from
00:22:40making a decision to implement an object until the moment of commissioning
00:22:44it, and here the government has clearly
00:22:47set the relevant tasks.
00:23:20this system, well, historically proven by experience
00:23:23throughout the world, that the most effective is
00:23:27pricing, and the resource method, such
00:23:30an approach that implements this resource method, and its
00:23:34essence lies in the fact that for certain types
00:23:37of work, resource consumption standards
00:23:41are formed, including labor
00:23:43cost standards for technical workers
00:23:46when using certain... and it is
00:24:21approved based on the analysis of
00:24:232022, but this year we updated it, reviewed it,
00:24:27simplified it sufficiently, but still about
00:24:3150 thousand estimated
00:24:34rates, in relation to about
00:24:3710 thousand types of work, but it is
00:24:41in electronic form, so it is convenient
00:24:44to use, but we still need to recalculate these volumes into price,
00:24:48I just wanted to ask. For this, we have also
00:24:52been forming and monitoring
00:24:55prices in automatic mode for the past few years, so you
00:24:58essentially index these parameters, not only
00:25:01do we index, all our manufacturers in the Republic of Belarus and
00:25:05importers, they monthly
00:25:08enter information about prices
00:25:11for resources,
00:25:13materials into this database, and we always have up-to-date
00:25:17information,
00:25:19but we... based on these current
00:25:22prices, we also make average prices
00:25:26for construction materials,
00:25:28as of today, the estimator, we also have
00:25:32a separate software product, since September 1st it
00:25:35has become smart, we have
00:25:38prepared a new version of this product, this is
00:25:42an estimate for the work of estimators, and designers,
00:25:46customers, and contractors,
00:26:41an unchangeable contractual price, and the third is
00:26:44the actual cost, which is formed already based on
00:26:47the results, yes, and the problem we are solving is, of course, to make sure
00:26:51that the estimated cost approaches the actual cost. It is necessary
00:26:54to note that there is also a very important mechanism that
00:26:58the regulator uses, this is price level
00:27:01control.
00:27:32control over the price level, and here
00:27:34the Ministry of Architecture, as was rightly noted, almost in real
00:27:38time, sees the manufacturer's price,
00:27:42the wholesale price and the retail price, all
00:27:46of this is subject to monitoring and control from the other side, up to the adoption
00:27:49of individual decisions to limit profitability norms. Let's take a short
00:27:53commercial break, after which we will learn about advanced technologies in construction and
00:27:57the demand for our services abroad, don't
00:27:59switch.
00:28:13This is the economic environment, we continue to discuss
00:28:16construction, the development of the industry is given special
00:28:20importance at the highest level, our President
00:28:23emphasizes the need to increase exports
00:28:27of construction services, but not at the expense of Belarus, let's
00:28:30take a look.
00:29:32As of today, we are successfully implementing a number
00:29:35of investment projects there, this is primarily related to the
00:29:39construction of social facilities, kindergartens,
00:29:42schools and the like, where in principle our
00:29:46specialists organize
00:29:49this construction process, actually
00:29:52performing engineering services,
00:29:56attracting, so to speak, local labor
00:29:59resources of local contractors, well, and... again,
00:30:02with the mandatory condition of supplying Belarusian construction
00:30:06materials there, last year we already commissioned
00:30:10a school in the Leningrad
00:30:13region, Vladimir region,
00:30:16returning to the messages of the Head of State, today
00:30:19in the republic, appropriate conditions have been created to
00:30:23provide personnel for the internal needs
00:30:26of the republic, by the end of 2025, the construction
00:30:30complex will be replenished with 4
00:30:33thousand builders, this indicates that the internal conditions, the level
00:30:37of wages, the working conditions created in the republic,
00:30:41allow our specialists to return within the country,
00:30:45as for the specific task of increasing the export of services,
00:30:48as was rightly stated here, the main
00:30:51message is to enter the high-margin
00:30:54construction services market, this is engineering and
00:30:57design, than the base organization of the Ministry of Architecture
00:31:01Holding Belstroy center.
00:31:15is implemented by this organization, our design
00:31:18organization Belgosproekt, the balance of interests will be
00:31:22observed, not to the detriment of the interests of the republic, if we take
00:31:25the dynamics of export of services, then indeed, according to the results
00:31:29of last year, it reached maximum
00:31:32values of about one and a half billion
00:31:36dollars, this has already been announced and confirmed,
00:31:40this year, by the half-year mark, we have positive growth
00:31:43rates, as...
00:32:15we just discussed, what are the key guidelines and
00:32:18indicators laid down, so what is the main way we
00:32:21plan to achieve them? This, as I already mentioned, is
00:32:25achieving by 2030 the provision of 33
00:32:28square meters of housing per resident, in 5 years
00:32:32we need to build 5 million square meters
00:32:36of rental housing, this is a new direction that is being mastered
00:32:39in the republic, this is practically a quarter of the total volume that
00:32:42will be implemented. Somewhere
00:34:17this will attract specialists from large
00:34:27regional centers, from the capital, who are experienced
00:34:29professionals, but agree to relocate because they will be
00:34:33provided with a job and an apartment,
00:34:36rental housing acquires special attractiveness
00:34:39in small towns with a population of up to 2,000
00:34:42due to its possibility.
00:39:44as if they are known to us, we try to introduce them, they are certainly very expensive, this includes industrialization and robotization, of course, here
00:39:48the application of robotic technology, 3D printing -
00:39:52this is also a separate thing, when whole modules,
00:39:56whole buildings are printed. 3D or is this still just
00:39:59pilot, we can say that at one industry
00:40:02enterprise of the Belarusian Cement Company, a prototype
00:40:06of a corresponding printer
00:40:09that prints in concrete has been acquired, aha,
00:40:12but it is now more engaged in the production of small
00:40:16architectural forms, and let's say it is for the enterprise
00:40:19to gain experience and practice, to see how it works, yes, there is
00:40:23such experience. Good, what other technologies are promising? Well, 3D
00:40:26printing, what?
00:40:33regarding robotization, I specifically looked at some figures before the broadcast and want to say that the index of growth
00:40:36in autonomous construction, the development
00:40:39of autonomous construction machines, robotization in the world today
00:40:43is about
00:40:4316.9%,
00:40:47I don't quite understand what automated means, is it
00:40:49this robotic machine at the construction site, I don't know, but can it
00:40:53tie rebar itself?
00:40:56It probably shouldn't vibrate concrete,
00:40:59tell me what it can do, plaster without stopping? This is
00:41:02a plastering station that was brought to it, it itself goes "zhik
00:41:06zhik", a tile layer, a tile layer that does not
00:41:10get tired, does not take breaks, you know, any
00:41:13tile layer can automatically lay a flat
00:41:16tile, but try to lay tiles with uneven
00:41:19geometry, you can't do without a qualified tiler,
00:41:23after all, personnel decide everything.
00:42:10square meters of space, where more than a hundred participants
00:42:14will be presented, guests from the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China,
00:42:18as well as Uzbekistan and other states will take part in the
00:42:21exhibition. Among other things, this year the highlight of the exhibition
00:42:25will be the discussion of creating a number of industry-specific
00:42:28platforms, yes, for various directions,
00:42:31solving pressing issues in construction, promising
00:42:35directions for the movement of the construction complex and solving some
00:42:38complex individual.
00:42:41tasks, among other things for all participants
00:42:44of the exhibition an introductory event
00:42:48will be organized from the point of view of what construction is, what it is to lay
00:42:52a block, how brickwork is laid, how
00:42:55a milling machine works, how a saw works, we will be glad to see everyone
00:42:59get acquainted with modern and new technologies, very interesting,
00:43:02I will definitely take my child and come, let's see what
00:43:06our builders will surprise us with this year, dear experts.
00:43:40let's say, capable of solving any problems in
00:43:48clean market, proven safety. We thank
00:43:52our guests and say goodbye to you. Build your future
00:43:55on a solid foundation and may the economic environment be
00:43:59favorable for you. Good
00:44:00bye.
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