"Modernization of Russia's construction industry: Eurocodes - prospects for implementation in Russia"

Organised by "The Guild of Managers and Developers" and RSABC with the assistance of Russian Union of Architects.

Moderators of the roundtable - Vice-President GUD, President of NAI Becar Alexander Sharapov and Denis Titov, head of the "Standardization SCP construction and environmental design" FSUE NIINMASH Rosstandard.

Round Table planned to discuss a wide range of problems and issues associated with the modern requirements to design documentation and practice of their application, the harmonization of the requirements of national standards with EU standards, the introduction of the Eurocodes and market incentive environmental construction in Russia. Nevertheless, the main theme of the roundtable, which caused the greatest interest of all present, was the introduction in Russia Eurocodes.

The need not just a correction, a change of ideology in the approach to building codes was stated from the outset, but the greatest number of debates led the way to solve this problem: the modernization of existing national standards, harmonizing them with EU standards or formal adoption of the Eurocodes.

The main difficulty of the introduction of the Eurocodes in Russia - the need to address the specifics of Russia and development of relevant national application NDP (Nationally Determined Parameter) to the application of the Eurocodes, was articulated in the speech of the Director of the Department for Technical resolution of the National Association of Builders NOSTROI Sergei Pugachev. "The use of Eurocodes without national applications can not be described using the Eurocodes", - he stressed.

Have dealt with all aspects of the problem - from the legal aspects of regulatory documents and ways of its modification, as reflected in the speech of the head of the practice of "Vegas Lex Igor Chumachenko, to technical and even economic implications of the introduction of Eurocodes.