On 18 February, a tripartite cooperation agreement was signed at SPbGASU between the university, the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St Petersburg and the Russian software developer OOO TBS. It was signed by First Vice-Rector Svetlana Golovina, Chairman of KGIOP Aleksey Mikhailov and General Director of OOO TBS Mikhail Romanov.

The agreement provides for the joint development of a methodology for creating information models of cultural heritage sites based on Russian software (Methodology IM OKN). The information model will include all the data about the site required for restoration work.

"We are starting a large and complex project that unites the efforts of many specialists involved in the restoration of cultural heritage sites and environmental renovation. The expected result is the development of a specialized Russian software product, which, as a necessary tool, will be able to reduce the time and cost of restoration," commented Evgeny Korolev, SPbGASU Vice-Rector for Research, Head of the Department of Technology of Construction Materials and Metrology.