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In autumn last year the construction of Lakhta Center public and business area was started in Petersburg with a tower almost 470m tall as its dominant. The whole complex will be completed in 2018. Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Chief Executive Alexander Bobkov told Interfax Severo-Zapad Information Agency in an interview what stage the construction is at the moment, which public areas will be opened in the complex and what companies will be able toset up their offices in Lakhta Center.

 

March 2013. Lakhta Center construction underground cycle works are underway. Bored piles are installed under the foundations of the future skyscraper.

 

The foundations of Gazprom tower Lakhta Center are built based on technologies conventional for high-rise construction adjusted for Petersburg running soils.

 

Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Executive Director Alexander Bobkov visited Fontanka.fm radio station where he told us about the commencement of the works related to the construction of Lakhta Center and how many floors would be built per day by a multi-national team of builders and how investors get along in Petersburg.

 

The success of each undertaking above all depends on those dealing with it. Perhaps, it is especially vividly seen in construction. It is important from the very beginning of the project to find a partner with whom you could reliably take all the steps of an uneasy way. We asked Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Head of Design Department Mrs. Julia Gulyak to tell us about the complexities of the work on unique buildings and relationships between clients and designers.

 

In Lakhta Business Center which construction was started in Primorsky district late autumn, slightly over 40% of the areas will be occupied by Gazprom group companies and other tenants. The remaining space will be divided between the functions considered as secondary by Petersburg-based developers.

 

Lakhta Center Layout Design in Primorsky district is approved by the city’s administration. The official website of the City’s Administration shows a decree and a set of documents defining land surveying of the future complex.

 

Mr. Michael Amosov, Member of Yabloko Political Committee, proposed not to build a separate metro communication to the future Lakhta Center but to rehabilitate the existing railway tracks.

 

As large European cities grow and develop, green technologies start playing a more and more vital role in their life. Green construction, green transport, green tourism. The main objective of this trend is both improving an ecologic situation in large cities and creating comfortable and harmonious urban environment of an absolutely new quality.

 

Dubai-based Arabtec Holding awarded a contract with Gazprom for the construction of the first stage of a 463m skyscraper in Petersburg, the contract cost is 95 million euro, the company advised in the materials for investors at Dubai Stock Exchange.