Putin to chair meeting on Russia's construction industry

MOSCOW, April 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
will chair a meeting on the development of the construction industry in
Russia on Monday. The meeting will "discuss in detail the current state of
the construction industry, problems and prospects of its development and
the housing prices," the Russian governmental press service reported.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Minister of Regional Development
Viktor Basargin, officials from the agencies concerned, chief executives
from several Russian regions and top managers of the major construction
companies will participate in a meeting, which will be held at the ZhBI-6
plant, which is one of the oldest construction enterprises in Moscow.
The government expects that "the meeting will allow the authorities
and the construction business to discuss frankly the problems of the use
of outdated technologies in the construction industry and the impact of
ungrounded administrative barriers, as well as the prospects for the
introduction of new technical solutions and quality standards on the
Russian market."
The meeting is also to consider the technological reequipping of the
construction industry that will allow building modern housing with the use
of energy-saving building materials, items and frames in the future. The
share of modern technologies in the housing construction sector makes
20-25 percent. Outdated and inefficient technologies and building
materials are used in the bulk of the housing construction projects that
makes a negative impact on the cost and makes the housing price higher.