UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s state construction surveillance authorities inspected 258 buildings under (re)construction and detected 1,562 instances of non-compliance with the existing urban development legislation, their press service reports.

In 57% of cases (namely, 891 cases), problems consisted in violating the obligatory technical requirements and project documentation provisos; in 23% of cases (366), developers failed to comply with the safety regulations or process organization requirements; in 18% of cases (281), companies failed to ensure construction control or acceptance control procedures or get all the necessary documentation in order; and in 1% of cases (25), energy efficiency requirements were not met.

41 reports on non-compliance with the urban development legislation were issued and 3.011m RUR worth of administrative fines were imposed on the offenders.