The Governor, Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, visits the Butterfly

The new residential complex is represented by houses of the Modernized 137 Series, which are manufactured by the House-Building Combine Blok. The governor examined the first ready-made section, building on which had begun in March last year. Valentina Ivanovna made the point that the builders had completed their work on time and that the quality of the building was at the standard it should be.

The governor also laid emphasis on the fact that the external appearance of the houses was a great improvement on other residential buildings. Accompanied by Roman Filimonov, Chairman of the Building Committee and Alexander Gobeyev, Manager of DSK Blok, she examined the different sized flats, the spaces between the flats, the stair landings and the courtyards. In the words of the governor, “the house would soon be ready for moving in.” On the subject of the external appearance of the house, Alexander Gobeyev added that “the colours on the faзades are long-lasting and seamless technology has been used on the outer walls. These will mean that the house will continue to look exactly the same as it does at the moment for a long time to come. And the tenants will be happy.”

Speaking to the manager of DSK Blok, Valentina Ivanovna asked about the combine`s capacity, its development plans and how it intends to increase production. She also showed interest in what the combine could do, what problems it faced and what help it needed from the city, given the need to increase the amount of house-building. Alexander Gobeyev pointed out that for DSK Blok, as for many building companies, the biggest problem was one of finding qualified staff.

Increasing production capacities depended on prospects for obtaining orders. So the combine`s main task was to work on the quality of the ferro-concrete products it manufactured, on the development and design of new technology, on the quality of its installations, and on meeting all deadlines. After all, this is what customer trust depends on and, consequently, the number of orders.

In the words of R. Filimonov, The House-Building Combine Blok is the most dynamically developing and prospective combine in St. Petersburg. But, at the same time, it does have competitors, like DSK-5 and DSK-3, which also take part in city tenders. Valentina Matviyenko made a particular point that the House-Building Combine Blok is the basic combine on which the city relies for completing its orders. “The main thing,” she said, “was that they needed healthy competition on the market so as to avoid monopolies.

At present, DSK Blok was engaged in building two sites financed by the budget with a total area of some 200,000 square metres. The work of the combine fulfils an important social function, in building high-quality comfortable homes for the residents of St. Petersburg who are preparing to leave their old dilapidated and dangerous buildings.

The House-Building Combine Blok is the only enterprise on the pre-cast slab residential building market in St. Petersburg that uses seamless-faзade technology. Furthermore, the company is a leader in fulfilling city orders for residential buildings, which is an indicator of just how good the enterprise’s work is in terms of the quality of its products, its installation work, and its reliability in meeting deadlines.