SPbGASU Hosted a Conference on Quality
On 10 November, on the World Quality Day, SPbGASU hosted the 20th city practical conference "The quality of construction and the business environment in investment and building complexes of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region."
From left to right: Lev Kaplan, Vyacheslav Zakharov (deputy head of the service – head of the State Construction Supervision Department of the State Construction Supervision and Expertise Service of St Petersburg), Sergey Mikhailov
✔ The conference was organized by the St Petersburg Union of Construction Companies "Soyuzpetrostroy" with the support of the National Association of Surveyors and Designers (NOPRIZ). The participants of the event discussed the problems facing the construction community. The resolution approved at the end of the conference will traditionally become the basis of the regional Construction Quality Improvement Plan for the next year.
Opening the conference, Lev Kaplan, Vice-President, Director of Soyuzpetrostroy, noted that "a return to Soviet standards is impossible, but updated standard solutions in today's realities can help improve the quality of capital construction projects."
Sergey Mikhailov
On behalf of the SPbGASU rector Evgeny Rybnov, vice-rector for academic work Sergey Mikhailov addressed the conference participants. “We consider the tradition of holding such a significant event at the university site as evidence of high trust of the professional community, as recognition of the effectiveness of our interaction and as a guarantee for future great joint work with the St Petersburg Union of construction companies Soyuzpetrostroy to develop a competence model of a specialist in the interests of the construction industry ", he stressed.
According to Sergey Mikhailov, SPbGASU is constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of higher and additional professional education. There is a feedback system with participants in the educational process, a department for analytical research and quality management has been created. An analysis of the data obtained indicates an urgent need to overcome the gap between the requirements for educational programs and the needs of society, business and the state. In this pursuit, the university enhances the practical training of students, develops an expert community of employers and graduates, declares ongoing basic and additional educational programs for professional and public accreditation, and goes to pair the state final certification procedures with an independent assessment of qualifications.
For several years now, the University has been comprehensively implementing and applying information modeling technologies in educational, research, and project activities. Having received the status of a federal innovation platform from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia for the next five years, SPbGASU is implementing two innovative educational projects that claim to develop and scale up a methodology for the formation of digital professional competencies among students and specialists, as well as to create a methodology for the formation of a safe behavioral model on construction sites using technologies virtual and augmented reality.
The vice-rector drew attention to the possibilities of cooperation in the digital transformation of the industry with such departments of the university as the laboratory of digital building information models and the institute of continuing education and professional retraining. They implement additional professional programs, taking into account professional standards, with the direct participation of industry partners, using domestic software. Joint activities contribute to the development of the personnel potential of the industry.
Aleksandr Grimitlin, vice president of the National Association of Surveyors and Designers, NOPRIZ coordinator for the Northwestern Federal District, chairman of the Association’s Digital Development Committee, highlighted such aspects of the organization’s work as the development, approval and updating of professional standards, the introduction of an independent assessment of qualifications and the maintenance of a national register of specialists , as well as interaction with organizations of higher and secondary vocational education to adjust and create new training and retraining programs.
Text: Tatiana Petrova
Photo: Gennady Nesterov, Soyuzpetrostroy