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Putin Orders Plan to Centralize Construction Utility Connections Through Regional Operators

The government must deliver detailed proposals by June 1, 2026 following a Kremlin directive tied to national development goals.

Overview

  • Kremlin guidance tasks the government, State Council commissions, and the All-Russia People’s Front with drafting proposals to streamline how capital projects connect to engineering networks.
  • The envisioned model would route technological connections through a single regional operator appointed by each region’s top official to coordinate all participants.
  • Hookups are to be synchronized with project completion, with legal timelines for electricity, gas, heat, water supply, and wastewater shortened so they do not exceed construction time.
  • Authorities are directed to update normative documents that set calculated energy-consumption values for different facility types to account for energy efficiency.
  • The brief also sets a June 1, 2026 deadline for submissions and calls for broader use of building information modeling and measures to ease skilled-labor shortages through expanded vocational programs.