DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ENSURES FAIR COMPETITION IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

This could be achieved by optimizing procedures, reducing barriers and business transaction costs

In the annual Report on the state of competition, the FAS Russia notes the need for all subjects of urban development relations to interact within a single information environment.

Currently, developers, network organizations, authorities at all levels, organizations involved in construction work in various information systems with different functionality and at different operational levels*, and in many cases on paper, which complicates and potentially increases the cost of the construction process.

Digital transformation of processes and unified information environment in construction will allow to:

-       reduce administrative barriers to entry for new businesses;

-       reduce the number of violations by state and municipal authorities;

-       automate and simplify control and supervision;

-       ensure continuous accumulation and exchange of reliable data on capital construction projects throughout their life cycle;

-       reduce transaction costs of business, including those associated with the required mandatory procedures;

-       create a unified information space for remote interaction of government, local government and organizations in digital form throughout the entire cycle of processes in the construction sector.

According to the Deputy Head of the Department for Control over Construction and Natural Resources of the FAS Russia David Akopyan, implementation of the system  for management of lifecycle of the object of capital construction with using BIM technologies in the Russian Federation will ensure the transition to a qualitatively and technologically new level of interaction between participants of urban planning activities on which data in digital form is a key factor of production survey, design and construction, public administration, public services.

“As a result of the joint work of the FAS Russia and Ministry of Construction of Russia amendments to the law were approved on the implementation of the uniform standards of rendering state services in electronic form in the construction sector, the creation of the Federal registry of normative documents in construction, the consolidation of the concept of information model of object of capital construction and the basic rules of implementation of BIM technologies,” the Head of the Department for Control over Construction and Natural Resources of the FAS Russia Oleg Korneev commented.

Work on the digital transformation of the construction industry is already in progress in accordance with the Roadmap for the development of competition in the sectors of the Russian Federation's economy for 2018-2020, approved by decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1697-R.

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* Federal level – public services portal, unified state register of expertise conclusions, unified housing construction system, etc., regional level-urban development support systems, and municipal level.