OREANDA-NEWS. October 4, 2011. The issues of implementation of innovations and energy-efficient technologies in housing and utilities sector are discussed at the regional conference, jointly organized by the Kostanay Oblast Akimat, “Kazakhstan Housing and Utilities Sector Reform Centre” JSC and United Nations Development Programme/Global Environmental Facility (UNDP/GEF) projects on energy efficiency.

The conference is aimed at creating the dialogue platform for the best practices exchange, discussing joint organizational and financial schemes for energy efficiency increase, assisting in technology transfer, attracting investments, and concluding mutually beneficial contracts.

The conference is to become the very uniting platform, based on which the housing and utilities sector participants - that is state bodies and private business, representatives of academia, and service companies, equipment and modern technology producers, financial structures – will be capable of solving a wide array of practical issues, as well as elaborating effective and awarding cooperation mechanisms.

Presently, the Agency for Construction, Housing and Utilities of RK with the active participation of “Kazakhstan Housing and Utilities Sector Reform Centre” JSC implements the 2020 Housing and Utilities Sector Reform Program. The program provides for the complex modernization activities on infrastructure and utilities, water supply and water disposal systems, rearrangement of supply lines, introduction of energy efficient technologies, as well as thermal reconstruction of the residential housing, with financial resources available for these measures.  

The Agency for Construction, Housing and Utilities of RK with the active participation of “Kazakhstan Housing and Utilities Sector Reform Centre” JSC extensively cooperate with the UNDP/GEF projects on energy efficiency, for the increase of energy efficiency of existent buildings, further improvement of the energy efficiency evaluation and monitoring techniques, and standardization and certification of energy-efficient materials are among their priority dimensions.   

In the nearest future, the “Kazakhstan Housing and Utilities Sector Reform Centre” JSC together with the UNDP/GEF projects plan a few more similar events in other regions of the country.