Poor-quality documents for expertise: the technical customer is to blame for everything, but not the designers or builders are

Abstract: The BRICS summit will be held in Kazan from October 22 to October 24. In 2024, Russia preside over this association. The chairman status passes to each State in turn and means that during the year it will be responsible for events and will host the summit. At the initiative of the Russian Federation, more than 200 events, which were aimed at economic security and cooperation development were planned, including the VIII International Conference “Development of the Institute of Construction Expertise”. It took place in September in Kazan and echoed other events within the framework of the Customer Year invented by specialists of the Glavgosexperitza of the RF. The leadership of this department wants to turn the of experts’ work from routine one to interesting one. The image of an expert, who is only engaged in looking for flaws and writing comments, should remain in the past. Business partnership and expert consulting should be instead of that. One is talking not only about state expertise, but also about the market of expert services in general, about the development of the expert community and about the digitalization of document management. The conference “Development of the Institute of Construction Expertise” was attended by specialists from seven countries, such as Russia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. This article focuses on the main points of this event, tells about the priorities of developing the institute of expertise, about the technical customer, and about new digital tools that are relevant at all the stages of the life cycle of a construction object.

Keywords: construction industry; technical customer; project management; estimated cost; resource-index method; design-and-estimate documentation; construction expertise; unification; technological integration; expert support; pre-project support; expert consulting; business partnership