EXPERIENCE IN CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES USING MODULAR TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

In Russia much attention today is paid to the use of new technologies that would significantly improve the quality of construction, the speed of payback, and thus minimize the timing of work production. Modular construction combines various technologies pre- fabricated buildings, and in Russia there is sufficient experience and achievements in the development of volume-block construction. Particular attention to this technology is associated with the need to achieve global goals in our country: to solve the problems of providing the population of Russia with afford- able and comfortable housing in the framework of state programs; for rapid construction and restoration of housing destroyed in the event of natural disasters, or the creation of fully func- tioning temporary mobile buildings and structures; for simplification by unification and stan- dardization of installation works during the reconstruction of buildings and structures, in the construction of special-hazardous and industrial facilities; for transfer to factory conditions, excluding the influence of weather conditions, specialized processes for assembling equip- ment with heat, water, gas services, welding and wet processes; and as a result, the simplifi- cation of design due to the creation of typical series of objects and the introduction by manu- facturers of databases and product catalogs - unified modules (or modular units). The article considers and analyzes the experience of the use of modular construc- tion in Russia and abroad, it formulates main values and disadvantages of using this technology. Summarizing the analysis, conclusions and ways of solving and optimizing of the technology of block-modular construction in Russia are determined in terms of normative technical standardization, construction planning, the most rational application.