This year, the participants of CTT can look forward to a diverse programme of supporting events including seminars, conferences and round-tables, according to the organisers. The 18th edition of the show will take place from May 30 to June 3, 2017, at the Crocus Expo IEC in Moscow.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (MINPROMTORG RUSSIA) has worked on developing and introducing tools to stimulate the development of production in Russia effectively. The results of these measures and plans for improving the investment attractiveness of the industry as well as for stimulating new industries and renovating existing ones will be discussed during the conference ?Current state and prospects for the development of production of road construction equipment in Russian Federation? on Tuesday, May 30.

At the round table ?SRO reform: the first results, bottlenecks and consequences?, the most problematic reform issues in the system of self-regulating construction organisations will be discussed. This event is organised by Business Russia, OPORA Rossii, the self-regulatory organisation union ?Inter-regional association of special construction organisations,? NOSTROY and the industry magazine ?Construction?.

?Protection of interests of road construction consumers against the influence of the gray market? is organised by the Committee for Tractor, Agricultural, Logging, Communal, Road Building Machinery of the Russian Engineering Union and the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. An effective system for protecting consumers from the ?gray market? needs to be created. This need is dictated primarily by the high danger of the use of counterfeit products and the use of counterfeit spare parts as well as the current negative situation in terms of the number of such products on the market. The problems and measures to combat the ?gray market? will be discussed within the context of this round table.

On Wednesday, May 31, Russian Union of Builders and NAARS are holding a round table on the subject of ?Innovative diamond technologies in construction ? domestic and foreign experiences in application?. Representatives of the Ministry of Construction of Russia, Rosatom State Corporation, Interregional Design Union, Russian Railways and Russian construction companies are invited to participate in the round table.

Johnson Controls invites to participate in a seminar, ?How to reduce total cost of ownership and construction of truck parks by proper use and maintenance of batteries?. On Thursday, June 1, Trimble Solutions Russia together with Tekla Software will hold a seminar ?Optimisation of construction of buildings and structures from prefabricated reinforced concrete?. The seminar will consider in detail the application of information modelling technologies (BIM) in the design, production and assembly stages of precast reinforced concrete structures.

The seminar ?Certification of special transport, municipal, construction, road construction machinery and equipment?, organised by SAMT-Fund/NGO for the development of certification of special motor transport, means of mechanisation and technologies for performing works in construction, will be the next event on Thursday.

The international scientific and practical conference, ?Modern technologies for design and construction of airports? will complete the CTT supporting programme. The conference is organised by the International Association of Foundation Contactors and will bring together experts and specialists from Russian and foreign airports, design and scientific institutes as well as Russian and foreign software companies, specialised construction equipment, machinery and materials companies.