Eco-Friendly City
26 July 2013, Friday
The “SMART City Kazan” platform will be considered a pilot project for realization of eco-construction principles in the Republic of Tatarstan. The new city will make it possible to develop educational, scientific and research, and business activity, to unite all the achievements in territory planning and “green standards” application.
In order to achieve this purpose, the Agency of Investment Development of the Republic of Tatarstan attracted Malaysian urbanistics companies with great experience in projection and implementation of the same eco-friendly projects of “clever” cities.
At the moment the plan is being developed with laying basic requirements for green building, based on the systems of LEED and BREEAM certification. The work will be carried out in the following directions:
- promotion of “green building” principles in the Republic of Tatarstan;
- awareness-raising work with investors and future residents regarding operating systems of certification, advantages of certification as an important element of business, human life support, and environment;
- elaboration of land use and development rules of the project with guidelines for use of principles of the international certification according to “green standards”;
- active involvement of large systemic integrators in the sphere of realization of criteria of a sustainable development and companies regarding energy and resource efficiency, development of systems of intellectual management of the city and its infrastructure, etc.
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