The Russian Green Regulations
Construction and operation of facilities are pretty obscurantist and slowcoach industries in terms of technology. To become a world construction leader Japan had to apply literally draconian measures on minimum R&D investment of the construction corporations. The U.S. researchers still complain that the national construction industry is one of the lowest rated branches in terms of innovation.
National certification system: background, objectives, goals.
Further modernization of the construction industry requires rearrangement of regulations to meet the global construction technology trends preventing inhibition of innovative advance and stagnation of socio-economic growth on the national scale. Currently, there are about 7,000 regulatory documents of more than twenty different categories. There’s a need for unified system of terms and concepts applicable to innovative industrial niches, which would be a common interdisciplinary language intelligible for all professional community.
One of the most important tasks is revision and updating of existing national and regional industrial regulations. The Council on Green Building was founded to consolidate the efforts in these directions and coordinate the activities of relevant experts. Along with it, the research team able of coordinating information sharing and aligning of horizontal connections was also organized. The medium-and longterm regulatory strategy for construction industry and related industries is being developed.
The consistent, relevant and efficient national certification system for the sustainable construction (hereunder, the System) would be impossible without case-based reasoning and modern regulations, which are harmonized with international procedures. Development of such basics of the System is one of the main goals of the research team.
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Denis Titov, architect, principal engineer at VNIINMASH under RosStandard, board officer of the nonprofit partnership Council on Green Building