Works on the third stage of the Chelyabinsk campus construction (the most content- and technology-intensive one) are in the next leg: building of the research and education and the multifunctional complexes has started.
At the third-priority construction site of the inter-university campus the zero cycle works are in progress: about 50% of the excavation of the pit for the future research and education complex have been completed by now.
Also, piling for subflooring of the multifunctional complex is being performed. Parallel to that, preparation for the next step, foundation concrete casting, is being held. The site workers are being actively mobilized: the builders are preparing the site for further expansion of works.
“I’m happy that the key facility of this complex, which we’ve been waiting for for so long, is starting to be implemented. I’m sure that the Inter-university Campus in the Chelyabinsk Region will help us respond to the main challenges, what one way or another will have its effect on the social-and-economic and scientific development of our region. In particular, the conditions required for achieving the scientific-and-technological security and sovereignty will be created, and the issue of shortage of highly qualified scientific and engineering staff will be solved,” noted Rector Alexander Wagner.
More than 70% of the area of the scientific-and-educational cluster will be given to joint laboratories (including world-class ones) of South Ural State University and industrial partners, like Automobile Plant URAL, PAO ChKPZ, PG KONAR, METRAN Group of Companies, and a number of other big enterprises of our region. Students, scientists and engineers will be conducting their developments in the fields of mechanical engineering, metallurgy, robotics, and measuring electronics.
The project of the campus’s third stage received a positive government expert review one month ago. According to the documentation, the research and education complex will include more than 40 laboratories, transformable classrooms, coworking spaces, recreation zones and botanic garden under a glass roof. The total area equals 40.2 thous. m². This will be a key scientific space designed for cross-disciplinary interaction and conducting of advanced research studies.
Works are also in progress at the second-stage facilities, which include six hotels for students, teaching staff and expatriates. The frames of buildings have been installed, and about 350 specialists are working on the construction site. A number of storeys are in shell condition: plastering has been started, as well as pouring of subflooring, and the engineering networks are being assembled parallel to that. Works are being actively conducted on the façades of all buildings, and the external supply lines are planned to be connected within the next month. Once the construction is completed, these facilities will be able to house more than 3000 people.
Following the instructions by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, a network of modern campuses is being created across Russia. By the year of 2030, a constellation of 25 campuses must appear in our country. Works in this direction are being carried out by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. At present, with the support from the Youth and Children national project, 24 of such campuses are being designed and constructed. One of these has already been completed at Bauman Moscow State Technical University in Moscow. By 2036, the number of the campuses will amount to 40. The campus concepts imply the creation of a unique and comprehensive environment for individual and team development, with a great number of open educational spaces and transformable classrooms. This will help form a common corporate culture among students, teaching staff and researchers. The project is financed with the funds of the regional and federal budgets, as well as using the extra-budgetary resources.
Two selections among the applications for the campuses construction had been held, among which 17 projects had been chosen (8 projects in 2021, and 9 projects in 2022). Another 8 projects had been selected following separate instructions by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. These will be implemented in the Zabaikalye Territory, Kamchatka Territory, Primorye Territory, Murmansk and Smolensk regions, the Republic of Buryatia, and two projects at Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and at MSTU "STANKIN" in Moscow.