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2021: Technology instead of migrants. Moscow authorities revealed a plan to solve the personnel crisis at construction sites

In early November 2021, it became known about the creation by the Moscow authorities of a plan to solve the personnel crisis in the construction industry. One of the measures is the rejection of migrant labor.

I set a task to the colleagues in a building complex  and to contractors to develop the plan of measures which will allow us to do without foreign labor on construction city facilities of Moscow, - the Vice-Mayor of Moscow concerning urban policy Andrey Bochkaryov said  said  in  intervyyurbk.

In early November 2021, it became known about the creation by the Moscow authorities of a plan to solve the personnel crisis in the construction industry

According to him, by the beginning of November 2021, about 40,000 migrants work at construction sites in Moscow, previously there were about 120,000 people. The labor shortage in the construction industry is estimated at 40%. Bochkarev believes that the process of automation of work should contribute to the refusal to use migrant labor at construction sites in Moscow. 

The construction process should require three times fewer people, and their salary should be two, or even three times more,  and we would build twice as fast. Where are these reserves? The first  is technological solutions to the construction of the facility, "he said.

Another problem is the quality of education in the construction industry, said the vice-mayor of Moscow. According to him, 90% of the time is devoted to the main discipline - industrial civil engineering, while 10-15% of the time remains on construction management methods. In the USA and Sweden, these disciplines are divided into two specialties, and in Russia it is also necessary to create such programs, Bochkarev is convinced.

In June 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said that the shortage of personnel faced by the construction business due to the pandemic and the outflow of migrants from the country led to an increase in the price of workers for business by 50-100%, which ultimately affects the cost of construction and leads to an increase in the price of housing.^[1]

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