OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 August 2009 was announced, that the traditional three-day seminar devoted to information management in construction industries was opened on Feliks Dzerzhinsky motor ship on the Moscow-Uglich-Moscow route at noon on July 31.

The event was organized by the Integrated Body for Urban Design Policy and Development of Moscow, the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and the Information Department of Moscow.

The seminar was held according to the order No 1393-RP aimed at planning the work of the Moscow City Government in the second half of 2009 issued by City Hall on 30 June 2009.

More than 190 senior experts from the subdivisions and organizations included in the Integrated Body for Urban Design Policy and Development of Moscow, the Information Department of Moscow, the municipal prefectures, the Moscow State Duma and the other structures under City Hall.

The biggest construction companies and leading developers of information systems for construction industries were on board as well.

The seminar was opened with a speech by Svetlana Bachurina, advisor to the first deputy Moscow Mayor, Doctor of Economics, main designer of the Electronic Moscow program within the city construction sector, Valery Telichenko, academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, professor and rector of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, and Peter Jan Pahl, professor of the Technical University of Berlin, member of the organizing committee.

Ms Bachurina reminded that such an event had been held on board of the ship since 1993. The previous seminar took place in early August 2007.

The official emphasized that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov paid a great deal of attention to the problems of providing information about the activities of City Hall and its branch-wise structures.

According to the main designer of the Electronic Moscow, the key issues of the 2009 seminar were:

computer-aided design systems for industrial and civil engineering,

special data and geographic information systems,

management of projects, methodologies and systems,

normative-reference information, regulations and norms,

preparation for hosting the XIV ICCCBE in Moscow in 2012.

Ms Bachurina added that in May 2009 the Moscow City Government considered and approved a concept of the medium-term municipal program aimed at developing the single geographic information system of Moscow scheduled to be implemented from 2010 to 2013.