Passions according to standards. Reforming the State Security Service - pros and cons

Kiev
Give
22 Mar 2018
Location
National Art Museum
Organizer
CANactions
Час
19.00
Phone
+38 073 437 90 08
Email
info@canactions.com
Site
http://www.canactions.com/

Are bomb shelters in kindergartens necessary? Is the European urban development experience not suitable for us? Kyiv is not rubber?... - these are all phobias of opponents of the reformation of state building regulations. The pressing issue of "modernization" of these standards, which are held hostage by architects and designers, was discussed yesterday on the CANactions platform. According to the organizers, the discussion, which took place in the National Art Museum in Kyiv, gathered 250 people - architects, designers and public activists.

Dmitry Vasiliev, co-founder and chief architect of the ARCHIMATIKA company, spoke about what standards are currently outdated and require urgent revision. Vasiliev has already discussed the list of outdated norms of more than 20 points at working meetings with Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, and yesterday he invited relevant specialists to express their proposals with the aim of forming a more complete "agenda".

"There were three groups of questions in total - the first is questions that are already solved in a different way in practice, and it would be possible to change these norms painlessly, the second is norms related to safety, changes that need to be carefully discussed, and the methodology itself discussion of these norms" - said Dmitry Vasiliev. As examples of hopelessly outdated norms, he cited the ban on combined roofs in residential buildings, the ban on kitchen niches in two- and three-room apartments, the mandatory presence of garbage disposals, and the requirement to provide household areas for knocking out carpets and drying laundry on the territory of homes.

Architect Victor Zotov, founder of the ZOTOV&CO bureau and the CANactions platform, believes that individual norms are not just useless, but also downright harmful. Addressing his colleagues, he noted: "There are norms everywhere in civilized states and they work very well. The problem is that today, as my foreign customer said, everything is possible in Ukraine - and it's terrible. And the more these meaningless norms are, the more tightly these prohibitions are twisted, the more the situation heats up. I emphasize the question on meaningless norms. I will passionately advocate for safety-related regulations. But if you can't explain to me why it is necessary to control the lower areas of the square in the apartments, I want it removed. If you make a garbage disposal after delivery, because you didn't bring it in your suitcase, I want it removed... I want to cancel 44 points at once, and not in four years, but at least in four months. Some norms are not just meaningless, they are harmful. For example, the rule on ways to evacuate cars from the parking lot. People are being evacuated all over the world, we have cars. Firemen smile crookedly, for them it is a feeding trough. This is not just the expenses of those who build, this is a direct danger - people will run, and they will be crushed by cars?"

Architect and co-founder of "Bureau-O" Alexey Pakhomov believes that the need to make changes is dictated first of all by the economic situation in the country. If in the USSR during the construction of the microdistrict there were no problems with the allocation of territory where separate kindergartens and schools were built, then today, when the developer pays for each square meter of land, the requirements for the construction of separately located infrastructure facilities are not met. Alexey Pakhomov gave examples from foreign practice, which he considers possible to use in Ukraine as well - kindergartens and schools designed for a small number of places built into residential buildings. Current norms prohibit such construction.

Lev Partskhaladze, Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Utilities, reported that the Ministry is open to proposals. During the development of the new legal document DBN 360-92 "Territory Planning and Development", the process of coordination with specialists and the public lasted two years, 80 round tables were held, at which the working group and the technical council considered more than 500 proposals. At the moment, the document has been signed by the Ministry and has already been approved by most authorities. As for the introduction of new changes, the process is underway, but it will not be as fast as designers and developers would like.  "We cannot completely take as a model the norms of some other country and fully apply them in our country. Climate and mentality have their own peculiarities, and technologies are changing rapidly. But the process is ongoing, and last year we changed 13 DBN, this year we plan to change 22 DBN, and next year we plan to change 30 DBN. And by almost 90%, we will remove the social tension in this issue." - promised Partskhaladze.

The participants of the discussion agreed to continue the dialogue online. We will tell you more about outdated building codes and the disputes they cause in an article we are preparing for the April issue of Pragmatika magazine.