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Yekaterinburg hosted the International Construction Forum and the 100+ TechnoBuild exhibition

In Yekaterinburg, one of the most anticipated events in the country's construction complex - the International Construction Forum and the 100+ TechnoBuild Exhibition - was once again held on a grand scale at the Yekaterinburg-EXPO International Exhibition Center. The forum was held for the 11th time. An important innovation of this year was that the event was held for the first time as part of the International Construction Week. The key co-organizer of the forum was traditionally the Ministry of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation. The main topic of the forum was "Building the future" - its discussion began at the Plenary Session with the same name. The speeches focused on the issues of creating a comfortable urban environment, approaches to the development of agglomerations. It is expected that the proposals made will be included in the new national project "Infrastructure for Life". A rich business program awaited the visitors: 222 sections were held, within which over 1000 speakers spoke. The exhibition was no less large-scale. The exhibition was attended by over 600 enterprises from most regions of Russia, as well as representatives of companies from friendly countries – China, Turkey, Italy, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Almost half of them are manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materials and technologies. A distinctive feature of this year's exhibition was a significant number of import-substituted products, some of which have no analogues, for example, a expanded clay block. The stands with domestic flame-retardant materials, coatings for engineering communications, smart glasses, translucent structures for high-rise buildings and suburban real estate aroused great interest among visitors. The second focus of this year's exhibition is solutions for digitalization, design and construction, among which domestic construction software, cloud platforms for construction management, interactive sales tools and much more were presented.According to the organizers of the International Construction Forum and the 100+ TechnoBuild exhibition, they are pleased with the results. Both events showed high demand – the total number of visitors amounted to almost 35 thousand people (which is about 10 thousand more than last year).- This year, for the first time, we conducted a test drive of construction equipment, strengthened in the usual directions and the international component, - said Vera Belous, head of the working group on the organization of 100+ TechnoBuild.