An open seminar "Application of HPL-materials in construction and decoration" was held in KSUAE Research and Educational Center "Technologies" on May 14, 2021.
LLC Laminated Plastics Plant (St. Petersburg) and KSUAE organized the seminar.

The vice-rector for scientific and research work Evgeniy Vdovin welcomed participants of the seminar.
During the seminar, the speakers talked about the advantages of HPL materials and the possibilities of their use in construction and decoration, gave examples of successful use in Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan and other cities of Russia. For example, HPL materials were used on the facades and interior decoration of premises such as Innopolis, “Greenwich” Residential Complex, “MEGGA” Shopping Center, “Rodina” Residential Complex, “Kazan EXPO”.
The director of the School of Architecture and Design Anna Romanova, director of the School of Building Technologies, Engineering systems and Ecology Dmitriy Soldatov, deputy director, head of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Runar Abitov, representatives of construction companies, professors and students of KSUAE took part in the seminar.
The seminar was conducted by Daria Martynova, project manager of LLC “SLOPLAST” and Dmitry Gavrikov, head of the sales department of the Moscow representative office of LLC “SLOPLAST”.

A solemn meeting in honor of the 76th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) was held at the KSUAE near the memorial obelisk.
The program of the meeting included the opening speech of KSUAE rector R.K. Nizamov, laying flowers to the memorial obelisk to the soldiers fallen in the Great Patriotic War and speeches of the students of our University.
The event was attended by the board of the University, teachers and students.
Students and employees of KSUAE took part in city events dedicated to the celebration of the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
On May 7, 2021 at the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Mussa Jalil, students and employees of KSUAE, lined up in a "living corridor" to meet veterans and homefront workers of the Great Patriotic War, who arrived at the solemn event with the participation of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. Minnikhanov.
On May 9, at Millennium Square, students of KSUAE took part in the large-scale project "Singing Kazan". As part of the combined student choir, our students sang patriotic songs of the war and post-war years.

The plenary session of the 2nd international Conference on Socio-Technical Construction and Civil Engineering (STCCE – 2021) was held in KSUAE on April 28, 2021.
The event was held in English both offline and online in research and educational centers of our university "BFFT.space", "Strength", "Systems", "Technologies", "Roads", "Urban Planning" for teachers and employees of KSUAE, as well as for guests. Participants from other cities of Russia and abroad joined the conference via Zoom.
Conference materials will be published in foreign journals of Scopus and Web of Science databases.
Reports were made by Mark Sedgley, Peter Lakin, Alkiviadis Prepis, Nikolay Vatin, Stefano Bertocci, Paolo Ceccarelli, Konstantin Popkov, Tiziano Cattaneo and Arslan Ziganshin.
The conference sparked great interest of scientists, graduates and specialists from various fields of science, among them 700 participants from more than 20 countries of the world (Australia, Armenia, Great Britain, Vietnam, Germany, Greece, Egypt, Israel, India, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, USA, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, etc.) and different cities of Russia (Vladimir, Voronezh, Belgorod, Rostov, Irkutsk, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Tyumen, Ufa, etc.), more than 100 scientists at the sites of scientific and educational centers, about 200 online participants via Zoom, about 400 viewers on Youtube.

On the 22 of April, STCCE was continued with section “Building constructions, buildings and structures” which was held in our scientific and research centre “STRENGTH”. Scientists from KSUAE, Kazan Federal University and other speakers from different universities made presentations.
ass. prof. Gennady Shmelev and Master student Pavel Eremeev shared their knowledge in improving designs of pedestrian crossings,
prof. Ivan Kuznetsov, ass. prof. Linur Gimranov and postgraduate student Daler Aripov presented their research in the field of calculating the roof trusses nodes, made of both from steel and from composite materials.
prof. Ilizar Mirsayapov, ass. prof. Lenar Siraziev, Marat Shakirov, Danil Sabirzyanov and postgraduate student Danil Sergeev reported on experimental studies in the field of the stress state of a multilayer massif under slab foundations and field tests of pile foundations for cyclic loading.
Representatives of the Volga Federal University Samat Timergaliev and Lilia Kharasova presented their developments in the field of the stress state of hinged thin-walled structures.
Postgraduate student Alsu Fattakhova and ass. prof. Oleg Efimov told about research in the field of work of combined floors as stiffness diaphragms.
The organizers are thankful to the participants for the high level of their reports. The results will be published in the collection of scientific articles of our conference.
The conference will last till April, 28. All the information about the conference program can be found on the conference website: http://stcce-2021.kgasu.ru/