Semi-finalists have been determined in the School League of the International Construction Championship

81 teams reached the semifinals of the School League IV International Construction Championship. Depending on the nomination, the young researchers have prepared solutions for the development of the cities of the future. Now they will have to show all their best skills and abilities to get tickets to the crucial competition in Yekaterinburg.

As part of the correspondence qualifying stage, 222 schoolchildren in grades 8-10 from 32 Russian cities joined teams of two, chose one of five nominations corresponding to the leading construction professions and solved a practical task using smart city technologies.

 An expert commission consisting of leading industry experts reviewed the projects of the school teams and identified the semi-finalists.

Solving the case, Team specialists (nomination "Technologies in construction") We have mastered modern information technologies in construction: cloud services, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and others.

The next stage will feature 17 teams representing the cities of Samara, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novocheboksarsk, St. Petersburg, Sarapul, Chelyabinsk, Kemerovo, Ulyanovsk, Arzamas, Cheboksary, Konakovo, Chernogolovka, Ufa, Udomlya, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Ussuriysk, Ostrovets (Belarus).

Architects and designers of "smart" infrastructure (nomination "Efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation") At the championship, students learn how to effectively build and operate, as well as create multifunctional facilities, the purpose of which satisfies several needs at once.

16 school teams from Kemerovo, Domodedovo, Moscow, Kazan, St. Petersburg, Kotovsk, Tambov, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don, Golyshmanovo, Donetsk and Lugansk performed the best with the building.

Urban environmentalists (Construction and Environment nomination) They create a smart infrastructure to improve the environmental situation and ensure a high level of physical and emotional health of the population.

16 teams from Saratov, Moscow, Kazan, Mariinsky Posad, Chelyabinsk, Kursk, Stavropol, Yaroslavl, Perm, Ryazan, Krasnoufimsk, Kingisepp, Tyumen, Barabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod qualified for the semifinals.

Foremen and specialists in construction organization (nomination "Organization of construction production")  they are learning how to organize construction production.

In the next stage, 16 school teams from the cities of Moscow, Kemerovo, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Stavropol will meet.

Innovators in the field of comfortable living (Comfortable Housing nomination) They develop innovative solutions for comfortable, functional and aesthetically attractive living spaces, as well as learn how to create a functional landscape around the house, taking into account natural features.

16 school teams from Kemerovo, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Yoshkar-Ola, Ulan-Ude, Kabansk, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Cheboksary, Yakutsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Lipetsk and Lugansk were recognized as the best.

Thus, 81 teams will present their final decisions in the semifinals of the School League. The winners of the competition will represent their cities in the final, which will be held in Yekaterinburg on October 1-4, 2024.

The finalists will need to complete an additional task and present their ideas to the expert committee. They will also receive master classes on comfortable housing, efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation, construction and the environment, excursions to the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin and the Ural College of Construction, Architecture and Entrepreneurship, and the 100+ TechnoBuild exhibition.

The champions and prize–winners of the School League will receive monetary rewards from the organizers and additional USE points upon admission to the partner universities of the championship.

The IV International Construction Championship is a large-scale competition for representatives of the construction industry, aimed at introducing advanced technologies into professional activities and professional development of specialists. About 14 thousand people from Russia and foreign countries take part in the project every year.

In 2024, the Championship will be divided into the main, student and school leagues. The final final in Yekaterinburg from October 1-4 will be held as part of the International Construction Week and will bring together about 900 participants.

The founders of the IV International Construction Championship are the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, GC Rosatom, PJSC Gazprom, JSC Russian Railways, and Russian student groups. The organizer is ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities", the co–organizer is the Government of the Sverdlovsk region.