In Kazan, two WorldSkills Russia participants in the new utilities competence will be chosen

According to the results of the first regional championship on the competence “Operation and maintenance of an apartment building”, which opened today in Kazan, two participants of the WorldSkills national championship will be selected. The championship will be held in May this year in the capital of Tatarstan. The director of the Kazan College of Construction and Municipal Economy Zhamil Bakayev said this after the opening of the regional championship, reports the Tatar-inform news agency. “In May, during the WorldSkills national championship, the competence“ Operation and maintenance of an apartment building” will be presented as a presentation. It will be held outside the general competition. About five to six people from all over Russia are expected to participate in it. These are two representatives of Kazan, as well as representatives of the Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Astrakhan and Chelyabinsk regions,” - he said.

In the regional championship in terms of competence “Operation and maintenance of an apartment building”  take part six people, all of them are students of the Kazan College of Construction and Municipal Economy. Competitions will last three days and held in three modules. Students will hold a general meeting of residents and meetings with negative-minded appartment owners, as well as with representatives of organizations providing third-party services. They will visit the apartment building, visually evaluate it and compile a defective statement. “The main expert of the championship is Alexander Sharashkin, adviser to the management of educational projects of the State Corporation“ Fund for Assistance to the Reform of the Housing and Utilities Sector ”. Also two more experts from Moscow and one representative of the Yaroslavl region came with visit. The executive director of the Regional Center for Public Control in the Housing and Utilities Sector of the Republic of Tatarstan Dmitry Romanov acts as an expert from Tatarstan, ” - said Zhamil Bakayev.

The chief expert of the championship, Alexander Sharashkin, explained that specifically for the WorldSkills-2019 championship in Kazan, the Fund for Assistance to the Reform of the Housing and Utilities Sector will present the most advanced modules in this competence. This is the “JK Profi” - a simulator for managing an apartment building, which will help specialists to virtually assess the condition of an apartment building and also virtually take steps to repair and restore it. In addition, two more modules will be presented: “Improvement of the local area” and “Analysis of the consequences of major repairs”. “In total, since January 2019, we have held four such regional championships. Winners are invited to work in various organizations utilities. Such examples were in the Yaroslavl and the Chelyabinsk region. This suggests that there is a need for highly qualified specialists in the housing and utilities sector, ”- said Alexander Sharashkin.