The first meeting of the “Foundation for the Development of the Center of Development and Commercialization of High Technologies” (Skolkovo Foundation) Town Planning Board was held in Moscow.
Town Planning Board has been formed by the decision of the Foundation management to provide expert support in selecting and developing of the town planning concept for the future Technopolis, and to assist the Foundation in the creation of a comfortable city environment for scientists and innovators in Skolkovo.
At their first meeting, members of the Board discussed the technical specification for development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center town planning concept, prepared by experts of the Skolkovo Foundation jointly with the Swiss company Maxmakers. They also began discussion on short-listed engineering and architectural companies, claiming to develop a town planning concept of the Skolkovo Centre.
“At this stage it is very important for us to obtain the views of the world's best experts on urbanistics for making the most appropriate decision on the future development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center territory,” - said Vice-President of Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Maslakov.
28 companies have applied in mid-August to participate in the Qualification procedure to select designers for the Skolkovo town planning concept development. Later there were pre-selected 10 companies. From this short-list, considering recommendations of the Town Planning Board, there will be later selected 5 developers of the town planning concept. The result of their work will be introduced at the end of the year to the Commission on the Modernization and Technological Development in Russia, and there will be made final choice of the company that will develop a master plan for the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Land allocated for the InnoCenter covers an area of about 400 hectares and is located within the urban settlement of Novo-Ivanovo, which occupies an area of 1500 hectares. At the moment, geological, geodesic and environmental engineering surveys have been already completed. The utilities flow diagram has been also designed, and the connection points for the communications identified. All of the primary technical specifications for network connectivity have been received already, which allows determining the required amount of resources generated from nontraditional sources on the territory of Skolkovo Innovation Center.