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Ekaterinburg, IEC Ekaterinburg-EXPO
100+ Forum Russia – 2016
Ekaterinburg
October 5 – 7
IEC Ekaterinburg-EXPO
Seventy Sessions in Three Days: the Organizing Committee of 100+ Forum Russia Has Approved the Business Program for 2016
A regular meeting of the Organizing Committee of the III International Forum of High-rise and Unique Construction 100+ Forum Russia has approved the business program of the event. The number of those who wished to speak at the forum this year was higher than before, that is why the organizers decided to increase the quantity of business sessions. The program includes 70 themed sessions covering the most topical and important themes and presentations in the field of construction.
Arkady Chernetsky, the First Deputy Chairman of the Federal Council Committee for Federative Organization, Regional Policy, Local Self-Governance and Affairs of the North, Deputy Chairman of 100+ Forum Russia Organizing Committee: “The Forum, which has already become a tradition, is awaited by specialists from high-rise and unique construction industry whereas the documents and initiatives, which are born here, unfailingly attract attention both of city administrations and professionals.”
This year, the program of 100+ Forum Russia has been notably extended in several aspects. These are bridge engineering, long span structures, underground construction, composite materials and urban planning. The presentation of specific design and simulation modelling of complex accidental exposures on the structures of bridge crossing over the Kerch Strait will undoubtedly cause the interest of professionals. A separate session will be devoted to the topic of building and renovation of Russian stadiums where the FIFA World Cup 2018 games will take place.
The Union of Architects of Russia will have a round table meeting “A residential sky-scraper. Living high” with a discussion of social, architectural and technical aspects of building residential high-risers. The Russian Tunnelling Association, taking part in the Forum for the first time, will become an organizer of professional discussions in the development of underground spaces and rational use of urban territories. They will also discuss an issue of construction of the second metropolitan railway line in Ekaterinburg. A.Chernetsky has emphasized a special importance of these themes and necessity of their complex presentation - from economic and city planning as well as from administrative points of view.
Apart from a plenary meeting, traditional sessions, round tables and professional master classes, on one of the Forum days, the experts will announce the results of the competition for the best development concept of Ekaterinburg-Cit
Sergey Shvindt, Deputy Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Government: “The Forum has become one of the most significant events in Ekaterinburg, it takes an important place in the city events calender. We are looking for new ideas, proposals in the field of construction and are prepared to consider best foreign practices”. S.Shvindt also added that it has been decided to have the forum in Ekaterinburg every year.
Alexey Belyshev, Deputy Head of Ekaterinburg City Administration on the issues of capital construction and land use: “Preparation to the third forum has been very productive. We are certainly happy to extend its geography and - what is more important - to have deeper researches to be presented by those institutes who take part in the development of norms and setting the levels of expertise”.
The organizers have underlined that participation of the world leading architects and builders brings the forum on a higher professional level. Thus, for example, the largest companies like Kurganstalmost, Shuko, Knight Frank, as well as Zaha Hadid Architects and Renzo Piano Building Workshop will take part in the forum for the first time.
According to Vera Belous, executive director of Guild of Ural Builders and executive secretary of the Organizing Committee of 100+ Forum Russia, already now, two months before the Forum, its program is formed by 90 per cent and delegations from 14 Russian cities, as well as from Italy and China have confirmed their participation. Speakers from USA, France, Great Britain, Malaysia and other countries will make their presentations.
The organizers expect up to three and a half thousand participants at the Forum. Online registration is open athttp://reg.forum
Architecture under the Ground: Development of Megalopolises’ Underground Spaces as City-Planning Trend
The modern level of urbanization dictates its terms of development for major cities. Under the conditions of a noticeable deficit in vacant urban lands, in addition to active development of new blocks and construction of high-rise buildings, there is a growing need for comprehensive development of underground spaces.
Several key sessions of the International Forum for High-Rise and Unique Construction 100+ Forum Russia to be held in Ekaterinburg from 5 to 7 October 2016 will be focused on the urgent topic of underground construction and efficient functioning of the urban environment. It will be the first time the Russian and international experience in this field is discussed among professionals in such detail.
The most indicative examples which are probably known by everyone include Eurotunnel, the railway tunnel under the English Channel connecting Great Britain and France, the Grand Louvre project in Paris. The architect Ieoh Ming Pei, who redesigned one of the world’s best-known museums, moved all administrative and service rooms underground, and the central entrance was made in the pyramid at the center of Napoleon’s court. This allowed preserving the architectural appearance of the palace while the underground construction enlarged the area for museum visitors. The underground public zone in Montreal (RESO) is another example of the efficient use of underground space as a shopping area.
Russian examples include, first of all, the Moscow Metro, which was commissioned in 1935 and changed the “transport look” of the city, and the underground railway in Saint-Petersburg. At 100+ Forum Russia, the Northern Capital’s experience will be discussed using the example of Uprising Square (Ploshchad Vosstaniya) that plays an important role in the city-planning structure. A solution for the complex transport hub in the center of Saint-Petersburg proposed by the architects includes a junction and a tunnel along Ligovsky Avenue under Nevsky Avenue, a shopping center situated under the entire Uprising Square, a parking lot, and a shopping street under Nevsky Avenue. The topic will be presented by Yuri Zemtsov, architect, head and partner of the architectural bureau Zemtsov, Kondiain & Partners.
Major issues of 100+ Forum Russia also include innovative solutions for design and construction of underground structures and complexes, development of comfortable and efficient underground space: pedestrian zones, new transport hubs, and tunnels. The balance of blending the modern design and the historical ensemble of the city, which is a topical issue for many megalopolises, will be addressed. A review of the global and Russian design technologies for the underground railway will be another subject relevant to major cities.
For more detail, see the program of 100+ Forum Russia 2016
Registration is now open at the Forum’s official Website.
About the Forum:
100+ Forum Russia, the International Forum for High-Rise and Unique Construction, is an annual event organized in Ekaterinburg with the support and participation of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Utilities of the Russian Federation.
More than three thousand participants visited the Forum in 2015 including the representatives of 19 countries and 52 cities and towns of Russia – from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad – 20 official delegations from Russian cities and regions, and four official foreign delegations. During the Forum, 65 topic-based events were held. Russian and foreign experts, specialists of research institutes and leading Russian and foreign universities, representatives of major global companies delivered their reports: 287 speakers in total with 27 experts from abroad.
100+ Forum Russia will gather in Ekaterinburg to discuss the outlook and expectations in unconventional construction
In October 2016, city mayors and construction professionals of Russia and worldwide will for the third time gather in Ekaterinburg to talk about issues of civil engineering, financing and operation specific to tall or unconventional buildings and structures.
100+ Forum Russia, officially known as the International Forum for High-Rise and Special Construction, is an annual event held in Ekaterinburg under the auspices of the Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities. Since 2014, when it was held for the first time, the event has become the country’s largest civil engineering gathering. This year’s Forum will be celebrated on October 5-7 at Ural capital city’s Ekaterinburg-EXPO venue.
In 2015 the Forum was attended by over 3 000 professionals coming from 19 foreign countries and 52 Russian cities, ranging from Sochi to Khabarovsk, as well as 20 official delegations of Russian municipal and regional authorities, and 4 foreign official delegations. Speakers who appeared there included Russian and foreign experts, research engineers and scientists, representatives of leading national and foreign universities, major international companies and other top players of the sector.
Ekaterinburg is known as the city with most tall buildings in Russia, bar Moscow. In 2016 it once again is glad to receive world’s leading architects and designers, people who implement unique civil engineering projects. The Forum’s business events program always attracts participants, who comprise investors, developers, specialized engineering entities that take part in the tall and unique structures construction around the world. The Forum's events will be visited and spoken at by delegates of city administration and chief architects of Russian and foreign megalopolises.
The topics to be discussed are the betterment of standards and regulations in tall structures construction, urban planning issues and siting of tall or unique structures, safety and efficient operation of engineering systems, engineering and construction of tall and unique buildings, commercial operation vs financial efficiency.
The year 2016 schedule of the Forum provides for a more detailed look into the various aspects of building unique structures. The Organizers concur that the agenda of 100+ Forum Russia 2016 should focus on issues of cutting-edge technologies in construction, comprehensive development of underground spaces, and long-span and unique industrial structures construction.
“Our experience proves that there is sense in discussing not just the tall buildings, but unique civil engineering projects as a whole, because from the technological, from the architectural standpoint such structures have a lot in common. So, this time we’ll equally stress both the tall and the unique construction kinds. The 3rd Forum’s program of events won’t be any less comprehensive or captivating than any previous one”, - said senator Arkadiy Chernetskiy, member of the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.
About 100+ Forum Russia:
100+ Forum Russia is an annual international convention dedicated to the topic of engineering, construction and operation of unique civil engineering structures, including tall ones.
The Forum’s organizers comprise the Ministry of Construction of Russia, Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Ural Federal University, RAACS Research Institute for Construction Physics, Central Research and Engineering Institute of the Ministry of Construction of Russia, Union of Architects of Russia, “Civil Engineering” Scientific Research Center, Central Research and Engineering Institute for Residential and Public Buildings, Steel Construction Developers Association.
For further info about 100+ Forum Russia, please, go to its web portal at http://www.forum-100.ru/
Additional info, organizational issues, media collaboration:
Ekaterinburg
Organizing Committee of 100+ Forum Russia 2016:
Svetlana Yunusova, +7 982 608 06 79 - general enquiries
Natalia Agapitova, +7 965 517 21 25 - press relations
info@forum-100.ru
PR team of 100+ Forum Russia 2016:
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Innovations in bridge engineering and construction to be discussed at the 100+ Forum in Ekaterinburg
100+ Forum gathers in Ekaterinburg the leading experts in bridge engineering and construction
Bridge engineering will be one of the central themes of 100+ Forum Russia: the 3rd International Forum for High-rise and Special Construction will discuss innovations, cutting-edge technology, and international developments in this field. The Forum, which will be held at IEC Ekaterinburg-EXPO from October 5 to October 7, 2016, will bring together the industry’s top experts.
Construction of bridges is one of the most currently important and promising approaches for developing Russia’s cities. According to Mr. Aleksandr Vasilyev, Member of the Russian Academy of Transport and Director of the Institute for research into bridges and other civil engineering structures (“IMIDIS”), many countries face similar challenges in this area: "Currently, it is difficult to pinpoint a leader in bridge engineering among the world’s countries. Advances are being made on a broad front both in the East and the West. Extra-large-span bridges, road traffic interchanges, and architecture dictate fashion in bridge construction. On the one hand, this is due to a rapid growth of traffic in recent decades, car traffic by prevalence, and on the other – due to the general economic integration achieving a global scale, which called for even further development of transport infrastructure".
Beautiful cable-stayed and suspension bridges, in addition to being important transport hubs, often become sightseeing attractions: the world's longest (3911 m) bridge crosses the Akashi Strait, connecting Honshu and Awaji islands of Japan, while the Ataturk Bridge (1560 m long, with its main span measuring 1074 m) became a landmark of Istanbul.
Russia also has acclaimed examples of large-span bridges, such as the bridges across the Eastern Bosphorus strait, connecting Russkiy Island to mainland (its central span’s length is 1104 m), and the Golden Horn Bay bridge in Vladivostok (main span: 737 m), the bridge across the Ob River in Surgut (length of the cable-stayed span: 408 m), or the "mesh arch" spanning the Ob River in Novosibirsk (main span: 380 m). Currently, a 19-kilometer bridge from mainland to Crimea is being built. "You could call this solution a sensation in bridge engineering: I mean sliding blocks of the arch longitudinally over a circular scaffolding when building the Bugrinsky Bridge across the Ob River in Novosibirsk", - underscored Mr. Vasilyev.
Many Russian cities have bridges that serve as major arteries and interconnect their boroughs, but whose date of construction goes back several decades. Expert reviews more and more often return conclusions stating extreme deterioration of structures and impossibility to continue bridge operation. One of the best examples for this is the Kommunalniy Bridge in Perm: its operation after 2017 will be impossible. Closing a bridge (including for repairs) impedes traffic between large urban areas on both sides of a river. This is one of the main challenges encountered when rebuilding old bridges: the city of Ekaterinburg is undergoing preparations for the Makarovskiy Bridge’s overhaul, having already limited the amount of traffic that crosses it.
Other important trends in bridge engineering named by the experts are multi-level interchanges and organic architectural solutions, "Multi-level interchanges with diverse grade separation and outlines are meant to solve the problems of urban traffic. Another feature is a shift towards the most modernist architectural forms that sometimes take a very exotic look, and, apparently, fit into the new phase of architecture’s evolution",- commented on the current situation Mr. Aleksandr Vasilyev.
The experts gathering at the Forum will discuss innovative approaches to construction and development of bridges. The thematic section’s agenda comprises issues ranging from standards and quality management to specific examples of implementation and monitoring of new technologies.
You may review the Forum program’s details and register to participate in its work at the event’s official website:www.Forum-100.ru
Today, the importance of anti-recession technologies and measures aimed at reducing the costs of housing construction per square meter is obvious like never before. This subject matter will be among the key pillars of the International Forum for High-Rise and Unique Construction, aka ‘100+ Forum Russia’, that will take place in Yekaterinburg from October 5 to 7, 2016
There is a “concrete stereotype” in Russia, coming down to the following: it’s easier, faster, more effective and cheaper to build concrete-based residential and administrative buildings, and steel structures are mostly used for industrial applications. Not only international experience but also Russian practices prove that this is not quite the case: some famous buildings in Moscow, such as the skyscraper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the COMECON building, the Ukraine hotel (built in 1957), etc. were erected using steel structures as a frame. The global practice also shows that high-rise buildings with a steel frame are very durable – one of the symbols of New York, the Empire State Building, having been opened in 1931, was built in slightly over a year. A good example of modern high-rise construction in Russia where a steel frame has been used for the structural system is the complex Eurasia Tower in Moscow International Business Center, also referred to as ‘Moscow City’.
Structural steel in contemporary Russia has been increasingly used in civil engineering construction. The Steel Construction Development Association (SCDA), which unites leading manufacturers and suppliers of rolled metal products, steel fabrication facilities, research and design institutes, architectural firms and educational institutions, offers to developers to use ready-made standard design solutions based on constructional steel for building entire residential areas. In Russian regions one can cite such residential clusters as ‘Novomarussino’ (Novosibirsk), ‘Aliy Parus’ (Novokuznetsk), ‘Vremena Goda’ (Nizhny Novgorod), etc.
Dmitry Yeremeyev, General Director of SCDA:”We have prepared a pilot project support program for developers, which will make it possible to reduce the construction costs by 10 per cent as compared to the cast-in-place construction technology, and to hasten the construction process. The shell of a standard ten-storied building can be erected within four months.” According to experts its construction costs will be from RUR10,500 to 12,000 per square meter.
Research and design institutes of this country have been working to develop a normative framework for steel-concrete composite construction. In the beginning of this year, a draft building regulation named “Steel-Concrete Composite Structures. Design Guidelines” was developed, and the initial version of it currently being discussed. Experts will consider the results of this public discussion at the 100+ Forum Russia in 2016.
The Forum’s business program also covers the problems of constructional steel applications when building unique facilities – bridges and long span structures, as well as the reports on the best technical solutions in this field and the industry working conditions. You will find more details in the Program of the 100+ Forum Russia 2016.
Registration is now open at the Forum’s official website.
Anti-recession construction technologies will be among the topics of the 100+ Forum Russia
Today, the importance of anti-recession technologies and measures aimed at reducing the costs of housing construction per square meter is obvious like never before. This subject matter will be among the key pillars of the International Forum for High-Rise and Unique Construction, aka ‘100+ Forum Russia’, that will take place in Yekaterinburg from October 5 to 7, 2016.
There is a “concrete stereotype” in Russia, coming down to the following: it’s easier, faster, more effective and cheaper to build concrete-based residential and administrative buildings, and steel structures are mostly used for industrial applications. Not only international experience but also Russian practices prove that this is not quite the case: some famous buildings in Moscow, such as the skyscraper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the COMECON building, the Ukraine hotel (built in 1957), etc. were erected using steel structures as a frame. The global practice also shows that high-rise buildings with a steel frame are very durable – one of the symbols of New York, the Empire State Building, having been opened in 1931, was built in slightly over a year. A good example of modern high-rise construction in Russia where a steel frame has been used for the structural system is the complex Eurasia Tower in Moscow International Business Center, also referred to as ‘Moscow City’.
Structural steel in contemporary Russia has been increasingly used in civil engineering construction. The Steel Construction Development Association (SCDA), which unites leading manufacturers and suppliers of rolled metal products, steel fabrication facilities, research and design institutes, architectural firms and educational institutions, offers to developers to use ready-made standard design solutions based on constructional steel for building entire residential areas. In Russian regions one can cite such residential clusters as ‘Novomarussino’ (Novosibirsk), ‘Aliy Parus’ (Novokuznetsk), ‘Vremena Goda’ (Nizhny Novgorod), etc.
Dmitry Yeremeyev, General Director of SCDA:”We have prepared a pilot project support program for developers, which will make it possible to reduce the construction costs by 10 per cent as compared to the cast-in-place construction technology, and to hasten the construction process. The shell of a standard ten-storied building can be erected within four months.” According to experts its construction costs will be from RUR10,500 to 12,000 per square meter.
Research and design institutes of this country have been working to develop a normative framework for steel-concrete composite construction. In the beginning of this year, a draft building regulation named “Steel-Concrete Composite Structures. Design Guidelines” was developed, and the initial version of it currently being discussed. Experts will consider the results of this public discussion at the 100+ Forum Russia in 2016.
The Forum’s business program also covers the problems of constructional steel applications when building unique facilities – bridges and long span structures, as well as the reports on the best technical solutions in this field and the industry working conditions. You will find more details in the Program of the 100+ Forum Russia 2016.
Registration is now open at the Forum’s official website.
About the Forum:
100+ Forum Russia – the International Forum for High-rise and Unique Construction – is an annual event organized in Yekaterinburg with the support and through the kind offices of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation.
More than three thousand participants visited the Forum in 2015, including the representatives of 19 countries and 52 cities and towns of Russia – from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, 20 official delegations from Russia’s cities and regions, and four official foreign delegations. 65 topic-based events were organized within the framework of the Forum. Russian and foreign experts, specialists from research institutes and leading Russian and foreign universities, representatives of the major global companies made their reports: 287 speakers in total, including 27 experts from abroad.
