March 5, 2014. Local developers are planning to commission 1m sq m worth of housing in Yekaterinburg this year, the city council's press service reports.

'As a result of commissioning norms growing stricter, the developers' planning periods extended from six months to three years. This is why, starting in 2014, Yekaterinburg Council started working systematically towards making the cooperation mechanism between developers and engineering infrastructure companies more efficient in the new reality,' the message says.

The municipal water conduit company and YekaterinburgGaz are going to start working on providing the developers with access to these facilities. Yekaterinburg Council keeps working on the timely hookup to the engineering infrastructure facilities.

There are currently over 50 construction companies in the city that are now working on 160 different housing projects.