Belarus
Tatarstan is interested in studying the Belarusian experience of road construction
Belta.by, 09.09.2021
The meeting of the Minister of Transport and Communications Alexey Avramenko with the Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of Tatarstan Farit Hanifov took place on September 9 at the Belavtodor holding.
The purpose of the working meeting is to present the capabilities of key Belarusian road organizations in the construction of cement—concrete roads. Alexey Avramenko noted that in recent years the construction of highways using cement concrete is one of the most promising areas for the development of transport infrastructure. "Taking into account the developments of recent years in this direction, the leading research enterprise BeldorNII is ready to organize permanent channels of cooperation for the exchange of experience and the provision of services to road enterprises of Tatarstan," he said.The head of the Belarusian department also stressed that the Belgiprodor enterprise expresses its readiness to consider options for cooperation in the field of road construction.
"Thanks to the comprehensive cooperation of design and scientific organizations, many significant infrastructure projects of the road sector have been implemented in Belarus. Having extensive experience in the construction of cement—concrete roads, our enterprises are able to fulfill any ambitious tasks in the construction of the transport infrastructure of Tatarstan," he added.
Alexey Avramenko spoke about future plans, successes achieved, as well as possible options for bilateral cooperation in the field of road construction.
Kazakhstan
MIIR develops new requirements for road construction in Kazakhstan
Vlast.KZ, 09.09.2021
The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development has identified the main problems of the construction of substandard roads and is developing new requirements for the development of design estimates, contractors and expertise. This was announced during a briefing in the Central communications service by Vice Minister Berik Kamaliev."Recently, there has been a lot of criticism from the head of state and on social networks about the quality of road construction. We would like to mention some aspects. This is a low quality of design and estimate documentation. When designing, the criteria of SNIPS and GOST standards are applied, which require updating. In order to improve the quality of projects, we plan to revise the design standards taking into account zoning, zoning, climatic conditions, and the depth of soil freezing. New standard solutions for the design of road coverings will be developed taking into account climatic conditions," Kamaliev said.
Another problem is poor quality control at the construction site. In particular, the low qualification of engineers of contracting organizations and technical supervision services. To solve this problem, according to the Vice Minister, it is necessary to attract qualified quality engineers and strengthen the requirements for technical supervision engineers so that "they bear the same joint responsibility as our contractors." It also raises the issue of low qualifications and equipment of road companies.
"The current rules of public procurement do not take into account the specific conditions of road construction. Therefore, we propose amendments to the procurement procedure regarding the inclusion of certain requirements: the transfer of no more than 30% to subcontract work, the availability of 70% of its own machinery and equipment so that the general contractor does all this work himself," the Vice Minister stressed.
The Ministry has developed a comprehensive plan to improve the quality of highways, which provides for increasing the requirements for technical supervision services, revision of regulatory requirements for design and quality control. One of the measures to improve the quality of roads is the conclusion of a single contract with the RSE "National Center for Quality of Road Assets" to control the quality of work not only of the republican network, but also of the local and street-road network. For this purpose, the draft budget for 2022 provides 2.5 billion tenge.
Uzbekistan
Creation of a Development Bank
Gazeta, 09.09.2021
As part of the election program, the President said that in the next five years it is planned to attract 120 billion dollars to the economy of Uzbekistan, including at least 70 billion dollars of foreign investment. In addition, the creation of a Development Bank is expected (it was reported back in 2019), the selection of 200 entrepreneurs to turn them into leading exporters, and more.
In the next five years, it is planned to attract 120 billion dollars to the economy of Uzbekistan, including at least 70 billion dollars of foreign investment. This was stated by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking with the election program "Strategy of New Uzbekistan" at the congress of the Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP) September 9th.
In order to ensure high growth rates of Uzbekistan's economy, it is planned to adopt a separate Strategy for attracting foreign and domestic investments until 2026.
Within the framework of public-private partnership (PPP) projects over the next five years, it is planned to attract investments of $ 14 billion in transport, road construction, water management and other areas.
From 2022, due to the expansion of tax benefits for depreciation of fixed assets, about 2-2.5 trillion soums annually should remain at the disposal of more than 130 thousand entrepreneurs.
In addition, Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced the creation of the Development Bank of Uzbekistan to finance work in industry and create infrastructure in the regions. The creation of such a bank with a capital of $ 500 million was discussed back in February 2019.