OREANDA-NEWS  On 16 September was announced, that The Russian Union of Designers made up the decision to support the 17th capital construction week and sent the STROYTEKH, its exhibitors and guests a welcome note. In the welcome note they claim STROYTEKH to be an important .factor of the building industry development.

President of the Russian Union of Designers, President of the National Institute of Design, DSc (art history), correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor Yuriy Nazarov was quoted saying: “In recent years the capital construction has changed its focus from technological problems to formation of a human environment in general and now is concerned with the problems of comfort, landscape architecture and city design. Landscape and city environment require intensive development like no other spheres maintained by high-quality specialists. That is why the Capital Construction Week STROYTEKH will become an important factor of development of these important spheres of activity”.

The business programme of the 17th International Construction week is almost completely formed, but there are still a lot of companies, associations and unions which are willing to participate in it and make a statement with a seminar, conference, panel session, master class or a competition. All this makes us happy. The STROYTEKH exhibition aims at demonstrating the novelties in the construction industry, construction materials and equipment, and at making a good job climate for a dialogue between different organizations, working out new conceptual solutions for technologies, etc. This partnership will raise the profile and will contribute a lot to the business programme, that means it will be saturated, more valuable and more interesting.

MVK International Exhibition Company is one of the leaders of the Russian exhibition industry regarding the total exhibition area, number of exhibitors and visitors. MVK is a multifunctional structure comprising 17 companies. We take care about all the needs of our customers: we can accommodate you in hotels, we provide you with the customs clearance, we organize different cultural programs and deliver flowers to your stand, and we do many other things to make you feel comfortable at our exhibitions. MVK is the only Russian exhibition company with a wide network of regional offices. We work in St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Toronto (Canada), Frankfurt-am-Maine (Germany), Tel-Aviv (Israel), Istanbul (Turkey) and Shanghai (China). Together with these regional offices MVK annually organizes over 100 exhibitions. More than 11,000 companies from 60 countries usually become our customers.

MVK International Exhibition Company organizes the specialized exhibition STROYTEKH. The major building companies from Russia, CIS, Germany, Slovakia and Italy include this exhibition in their “must-go” schedules. STROYTEKH proved to be the leading industry event if to take the quantity of construction materials, seismic-proof, fast erectable and movable buildings. The exhibition has left far behind all its competitors in 2008. The previous exhibition hosted over 500 companies from 21 countries. 15,000 visitors from 12 Russian regions and 31 countries came to STROYTEKH. The next exhibition will be held under the motto “Advanced machinery, equipment and materials for construction industry”, from February 17 to 20, 2009.

Russian Union of Designers is the all-Russian non-governmental artistic union created by the specialists of various types of design. Designer is a key profession in the market-driven economy, and the sphere of design comprises such areas as industrial design, graphics and packaging, textile, clothes design, city and landscape design, interior and advertisement design. Russian Union of Designers represents 3000 specialists from 64 cities of Russia. The Union aims at protection of designers’ professional interests, support of Russian design, provision of profitable conditions for promotion of best products, artistic innovations and advanced ideas at the Russian market. The Union’s community commitment is provided by the elected Board of Chairmen which includes the regional leaders of the Union’s subsidiaries. The most authoritative specialists of in design studies and practical design are the members of the Union Senate. The executive power is in the hands of the President and five Vice-Presidents elected by the Union’s Assembly for five years. The high-qualified technical specialists and experts assist them. The Russian Union of Designers periodically conducts monitoring of design companies and specialists and calls out the leaders in every sphere of design. The Russian Union of Designers makes the product and service quality inspection and proves their high quality with a special Quality Certificate. Membership in the Russian Union of Designers proves the high quality of professional design services.