About the Integrated Body

The Integrated Body for Urban Design Policy and Development of Moscow (the former Associate Board of Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction of Mosсow) is a large administrative structure that deals with a strategic planning of investment building policy of the city, elaboration and putting into practice the General plan of the city development and that operates within the Moscow City Government.

For many years the Integrated Body for Urban Design Policy and Development of Moscow has aimed at the effective development of the city, economic and financial potential of the country. It controls the city planning and construction development programs, carries out the single investment policy in the sphere of reconstruction and construction of contemporary residential areas in Moscow, social and industrial objects, deals with the organization of engineering equipment, large road interchanges and highways.

The Integrated Body worked out the principally new standard documentation that became a basis for creation of a new legal act, it regulates the terms of the use of land and construction development in Moscow. Attracting the financial resources for investment building programs, following the directions of the effective competitive and auction policy, the Associate Board of Moscow successfully develops the relations between investors and the city.

The institutions and enterprises under the Integrated Body have already created more than 140 million square metres of living spaces, in other words – two thirds of the city housing.

"Thanks to your efforts, the Russian capital has turned into one of the most modern and beautiful cities in Europe," Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, stated in his congratulatory speech on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Moscow Associate Board of Construction Investment.

The Integrated Body for Urban Design Policy and Development of Moscow comprises a great number of organisations. They are: construction materials enterprises, building enterprises, designing and research institutes, construction and assembly agencies, joint stock companies, concerns, holding and leasing companies, financial and industrial groups. Their work is that of a team, of high quality and efficiency focused on the key objective set forth in the General Plan of Moscow’s development until the year 2020 which is to turn the Russian capital into a city well fit for its citizens to live in.

Today, the Moscow’s investment and building system, unlike its predecessor, works in the framework of market economy and unites all the building and construction organisations of the city into a vertical chain of command consisted of enterprises and organisations competing among themselves and thus represents the building sector of the city. All these enterprises and organisations are of a different status and include the government-owned agencies, joint stock companies, small and medium-sized businesses.