Sergey Kulakov, General Director of URALGIPROMEZ

Sergey Kulakov, General Director of Uralgipromez: “First and foremost, the roadmaps for replacing imported software used to design industrial facilities. I was very pleased to hear about plans to import families from Revit into Renga, but disappointed that these remain only plans for now. We are still closely watching Pilot BIM and studying its emerging functionality, although Uralgipromez has been using the Pilot product range for three years. During that time, all company employees have been trained, electronic document management has been introduced and a common data environment has been created using Pilot Ice Enterprise. One of the forum’s major announcements was the long-awaited web version of Pilot. Throughout the implementation project, Uralgipromez had been asking ASCON @asconru for this capability. The institute will begin testing the web version of Pilot shortly. Almost all forum speakers stressed the need to expand the product’s core functionality, rather than focusing on the successful delivery of individual projects within a single enterprise. The forum gives us hope that Russian software will develop successfully through the joint efforts of users and developers.”

We recently took part in the regular “Career Time” exhibition of leading national employers, held at UrFU in Yekaterinburg. Students interested in engineering completed more than 100 of our company’s questionnaires.

Sergey Yuryevich Kulakov, General Director of Uralgipromez, commented: “I visited the Career Time exhibition at one of the country’s leading universities with great interest. It is excellent that not only graduating students but also first-year students took an active part. This means such projects benefit both sides: today’s students are actively looking for employers, and we are looking for staff while they are still at university. We certainly plan to participate in similar projects regularly. We need to do this because we need young specialists.”