In accordance with the order of the Department of Urban Development Policy of the City of Moscow, an annual Professional Skills Competition was held in November 2017 among young specialists from organizations in the construction industry of the city of Moscow.
The competition was held in 4 categories:
- the best team of young design specialists in the field of civil engineering;
- the best team of young specialists in the field of road and transport construction;
- the best team of young construction specialists in the field of civil engineering;
- the best team of young specialists in the field of underground construction.
The team of Mosmetrostroy JSC in the underground construction category was represented by four specialists from the Mosmetrostroy group of companies: occupational safety specialist - Maria Abramova (UMM CJSC), surveyor - Natalya Sharokhina (Tunnel Squad No. 6 LLC), technical maintenance engineer - Dmitry Bazanov (SMU-8 Metrostroy LLC), work foreman - Dmitry Faizrakhmanov (SMU-8 Metrostroy LLC).
The competition consisted of two stages: correspondence and full-time. The correspondence stage took place from November 9 to November 19. Participants answered complex professional questions, and also composed them themselves for their competitors, and at the face-to-face stage, which took place on November 24, young specialists looked for errors, made adjustments, and checked the relevance of regulatory documentation in projects for work on already built Russian metro stations.
In total, 5 companies engaged in underground construction took part in the “underground construction” category. Our young specialists took part in this annual event for the second time. They managed to compete with their colleagues from other construction organizations and took third place.
On December 1, 2017, at the Young Builder’s Day, organized by the Council of Young Specialists of the Urban Development Policy and Construction Complex of the City of Moscow, all participants in the Professional Excellence Competition were awarded commemorative diplomas for their participation. Later, the winners of the competition received awards from the Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government for urban planning policy and construction M.Sh. Khusnullina.
The award ceremony for the winners took place in the last week of December 2017 at the Department of Urban Development Policy of the city of Moscow.
Maria Abramova,
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Young Professionals