Tenth graders of Kazan Lyceum became silver medalists of the International Construction Championship

Students of the N.I. Lobachevsky Lyceum of Kazan Federal University performed in the final of the IV The International Construction Championship, which was held in Yekaterinburg. According to the results of the tournament, a team of tenth graders, consisting of Daniil Koltsov and Grigory Sofyin, took 2nd place in the nomination "Efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation."

KFU Lyceum students have become participants in the School League of the Championship, an all–Russian team competition among schoolchildren to solve cases in the field of construction in order to support the personnel transformation of the construction industry and the general public, career guidance for schoolchildren in construction specialties, and the creation of preferences for schoolchildren when applying to educational institutions of a construction profile.

The competition for students in grades 8-10 included the following topics (nominations): "Technologies in construction", "Efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation", "Construction and the environment", "Organization of construction production", "Comfortable housing". As part of solving the cases, the contestants mastered professions relevant to the topics, such as urban ecologist or architect and designer of "smart" infrastructure.

Lyceum teams named after Lobachevsky KFU successfully completed case studies in the categories "Efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation" and "Comfortable housing" in the preliminary and semi-finals, after which they went to the finals.

According to the results of the competition The silver medal of the championship went to the team of 10th grade students of the lyceum.

"The departure turned out to be difficult, we were not ready for the tasks, but I am very glad that the guys quickly figured out what was what. In the final, the students had to create the necessary strategy to reduce housing and communal services costs inside the finished house. In the semi–final stage, there were tasks related to architecture, they needed to design," a teacher of technology and computer science at the Lyceum told the KFU Media Communications Center. Lobachevsky, the coach of the team Timur Tarasov.

The team's project proposes the implementation of a building management system (BMS), which includes a number of innovative solutions: rain garden – collects rainwater from roofs and sidewalks, preventing soil erosion and overloading urban drainage systems; smart meters – provide automatic metering of energy consumption and data transfer to the server of the management company, which allows you to optimize consumption and reduce costs; in–house rules – stimulate the economical consumption of resources by residents through a rating and reward system based on BMS data; an automated cleaning system for common areas - uses robot vacuum cleaners and cleaning robots, which reduces the cost of maintaining residential complexes and reduces water consumption.

The winner Daniil Koltsov shared that together with Grigory Sofin, they have been studying at the Dashka Children's Architecture and design school for 10 years. Despite the fact that the championship is more focused on construction, after studying the competencies, the guys nevertheless decided to participate in the tournament and began to develop a solution.

According to the tenth grader, the path to the finals was not easy. The young man sees his future in the profession of an architect or architect-designer.

"At the qualifying and semi-final stages, our task was to develop and, accordingly, protect a building revitalization project from our region. The choice fell on Shchetinkin's House on Bauman Street. Grisha was engaged in the ideological part, while I was engaged in the executive and design part. The main obstacle was mastering the necessary software for designing, but in a fairly short time and a couple of unsuccessful options, we managed to present and defend our project before the expert commission," commented D. Koltsov. – The result of our work in the final was a project to optimize the operation of a residential complex in Yekaterinburg. The theme of the championship is "The City of the Future", so we used the most modern and economical solutions. In the project, we focused specifically on human psychology and how we can convey to people the idea that saving resources is important for everyone."

It should be noted that the team of 9th grade students of the lyceum, Ildar Gimadeev and Artur Semenov. The mentor of the children was the physics teacher of the Lyceum named after. Lobachevsky Nikita Bogolyozhnikov.

"In addition to the School League, there was also a Student and an Adult League, that is, in addition to participating, the guys were able to feel like builders, communicate with professionals who work in this industry. I think that we will continue to participate in such tournaments in the future and will focus our training on applied aspects that will be useful to students in the future," the teacher emphasized.

According to the mentor, students need to work on teamwork – time planning, competent cooperation. Every evening of the championship, after the end of the events, the guys and the curator reflected on their work.

"This championship has given me valuable experience, and in it I have found many advantages both for my overall development and for mastering my future profession – from the first grade I want to become an architect. Thanks to the tournament, I studied in depth all the subtleties of working as a builder, decided on the exact direction of my future occupation and learned how to work in a team. I am extremely grateful to our mentors Nikita Vadimovich Teleznikov and Timur Alexandrovich Tarasov, who accompanied Daniil and me throughout our work and made a great contribution to our development," said Sofyin.

For reference. The International Construction Championship is an annual event that brings together a competition of specialists in the field of industrial construction, a business program and a multimedia exhibition. This year, for the 4th time in a row, the championship was attended by over 50,000 people. More than 12,000 applications were received from 89 subjects of the Russian Federation and 17 countries. The founders of the International Construction Championship are the Ministry of Construction of Russia, Rosatom State Corporation, Gazprom PJSC, Russian Railways, and Russian student groups. The organizers are ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" and the government of the Sverdlovsk region.

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