Every year, the Department of Construction Industry of Polotsk State University prepares specialists that are in demand both in Belarus and abroad. Affiliates “Construction and Installation Trust №16, Novopolotsk” and “Trust №16, Novopolotsk” of prefabricated large-panel housing plant were created to form the students’ competences, the employers are interested in.
These two organizations provided out-of-class learning for the listeners of the Preparatory Department at PSU. Prospective students from Congo, Turkmenistan and Lebanon saw the technological equipment of reinforcement and molding shops of prefabricated large-panel housing plant. The lead engineer informed the students about the work of the process lines for manufacturing exterior and interior wall panels, intermediate slabs, stair flights and ventilating bricks.
Then, the students went to the building area in Novopolotsk, where they learnt about the 10 storey large-panel residential houses building technology. Later, the lead engineer of “Trust №16, Novopolotsk” described the space-planning decisions for residential houses, types of work in progress and construction machinery in use.
Alexandra Katulskaya