Moscow designs ?smart? quarters to move people to from dilapidated houses

City of Moscow and Rusnano experts are using innovation technologies to design residential buildings to relocate local citizenry to from ramshackle houses.

Moscow experts are using innovation technologies to design residential buildings to relocate local citizenry to from ramshackle houses, the Izvestia website reported, citing a source in a Moscow urban planning and civil engineering authority. The first such house will be a 14-storey building on Moscow?s Nizhegorodskaya Street. Another project using advanced technologies, also being designed now, calls for the construction of an experimental kindergarten and high school complex on Bazovskaya Street. The Moscow authority believes the program may soon become a prototype for next gen housing both inside and far beyond the Russian capital. The innovation buildings are expected to cost 10-to-15% more than conventional ones, and the average payback period after commissioning is estimated to be ?between five and eight years...