100+ DIGEST #5

A 150-square-meter photo exhibition, a book presentation and the musical "And the Dawns are Quiet Here" in Chinese. The program of events of the Chinese side at the World Cities Day, which will be held in parallel with the 100+ Forum Russia, has become known.

Representatives of the Shanghai Coordinating Council of the UN-Habitat World Urban Day Yufei Fan and Yingcheng Gu inspected the future site, hotels and facilities where the world event will be held in Yekaterinburg.

The guests met with Vasily Kozlov, Minister of International and Foreign Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk Region. The delegation also visited the site of the Yekaterinburg-EXPO IEC. Representatives of the Shanghai Coordinating Council of the UN-Habitat World Urban Day visited the new Congress Center, and also discussed with the head of the working group Vera Belous the draft program for October.

New speakers have confirmed their participation in the 100+ Forum Russia business program:

Nicolaus Teodosiou — Director of the Laboratory of Engineering and Water Resources Management at Aristotle University (Thessaloniki). Mr. Teodosiou will make a presentation on "Urban Water Resources Management" at the 100+ Forum Russia
Rory O'Hagan is the director of Assael Architecture. Mr. O'Hagan has led Assael's largest projects in the BuildtoRent (construction for rent) sector, such as the UnionWharf award-winning project (Greenwich, London), which was implemented using external volumetric construction. At the 100+ Forum Russia, Rory O'Hagan will talk about new housing models and modular construction.
Alexander Poluektov is the Head of the Intelligent Infrastructure Department at Siemens. Alexander Poluektov will take part in a session on Digitalization of cities.
Timur Valiev— Director of Development at BARS Group, a Russian manufacturer of IT solutions, will make a presentation on "Examples of the implementation of federal and regional digital platforms in construction."

The Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure Development of the Sverdlovsk Region will hold a Smart City Design session as part of the forum's business program.

Oleg Shapiro, speaker of the 100+ Forum Russia, co—founder of the Architectural Bureau Wowhaus, gave an exclusive interview in preparation for the forum.

You can read about the main principles of designing public spaces, the disadvantages of implementing concepts without the participation of authors, and whose opinion should be decisive in the fate of public spaces.

Hiroki Matsuura, speaker of 100+ Forum Russia, CEO of MADMA urbanism+landscape, MASA architects, in an exclusive interview with the forum's website, spoke about his experience working in In Russia, about the evolution of the importance of architecture in the urban environment and how to prolong the life of modern architecture.

New applications have been received for participation in 100+ Technologies for Cities:

Reinars Rus LLC is going to present architectural aluminum systems for translucent structures, solutions for improving the energy efficiency of buildings compatible with the Smart Home system at the exhibition.
TESE Systems LLC will demonstrate an engineering steel profile for the construction of shafts for water supply, sewerage, ventilation pipes, systems that significantly reduce the construction time of high-rise buildings.
Certificate Service LLC will bring to the exhibition a software and hardware complex "Cabin", which is designed for mutual settlements in the MFC with the possibility of remote control.
JSC TIZOL will show modern materials for heat and sound insulation, increasing the fire resistance of light steel thin-walled structures up to 15-90 minutes.
Geospets Technologiya LLC will present modern soil reinforcement technologies: injection piles, well-structured soil cementation.
Mobile Solutions for Construction LLC will demonstrate the use of cloud and BIM technologies on the construction site: with remote quality control and the ability to track completed volumes in real time.

900 articles about the preparations for the 100+ Forum Russia were published in federal and regional media at the time of publication of the digest.