The MGSU student team became the bronze medalist of the Autumn CASE-IN Cup

On September 1, the Autumn Cup of the XI International Engineering CASE-IN Championship for solving complex engineering cases for students and young scientists in the field of design and construction started.

Since 2019, the Championship has been included in the platform of ANO "Russia is the Land of Opportunities", the supervisory board of which is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and It is implemented within the framework of a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund.

In 2019, the Championship entered the TOP 15 Olympiads in the world according to the rating agency RAEX (RAEX Analytics).

In 2023, the application for participation was submitted by young scientists of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, students of the final 4th year of the Faculty of Civil Engineering:

• Mark Batalov (team captain),
• Polina Sergeeva,
• Nikolai Vorobyov
• Sergey Meliksetyan.

Natalia Viktorovna Kupchikova, Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial and Civil Engineering, is the scientific supervisor and mentor of the team.

The task of the engineering case was to develop an investment and construction project for implementation in the field of tourism in 10 days, providing the possibility of scaling to the regions of the Russian Federation in the planning horizon until 2030.

The team, together with their mentor, developed a project in a short time called: "DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR THE ICE HEART INDOOR SKI ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX USING DIGITALIZATION TOOLS AND SCALING TO THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION."

On November 23, the guys competed for participation in the finals in front of experts from the Ministry of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation, the Federal Office of Rosstroycontrol and the National Association of Builders of the Russian Federation and won.

In the Construction field, out of 125 teams, only 10 teams from the following universities competed in the final:

• Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering";
• Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. Mytishchi Branch";
• Astrakhan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
• St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2 teams)
• Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov
• Kaliningrad State Technical University
• Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

On November 30, the students received a new case assignment for solving complex problems in the field of design, construction and development, which included the development of the main stages of the investment and construction project, project cost-effectiveness indicators, calculation and risk management, a timeline and budget management plan for the project, and a quality management system.

The final was held face-to-face in Moscow on December 15. 9 experts from the Ministry of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation and the Federal Administration of Rosstroycontrol, headed by Alexander Besonov, Chairman, Deputy General Director for Construction of Rosstroycontrol, evaluated the results of the projects.

The MGSU branch team was awarded a bronze medal and expensive gifts from Rosstroycontrol, as well as +30 points for admission to the graduate program of the National Research University of MGSU. The experts and the chairman noted the high level of development of professional competencies and "flexible" skills of the students.

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