Moscow Tests an AI System to Manage Its Massive Housing Renovation Program
A new AI-powered service is designed to track progress, flag delays, and accelerate one of Moscow’s largest urban redevelopment efforts.
Moscow has developed a new artificial intelligence–based service aimed at managing and monitoring its large-scale housing renovation program. The tool, called Renovation Stage Planning, is currently being tested by the city’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning, Vladislav Ovchinsky, head of Moscow’s Department of Urban Planning Policy, told IT Russia.
The service is designed to monitor and evaluate the key performance indicators of the renovation program and to quickly identify deviations from planned targets. Officials involved in the renovation effort will be able to access the system through personal accounts on the city’s StroimProsto construction portal.
Faster Oversight With AI
According to Ovchinsky, the Renovation Stage Planning service was built for continuous, real-time monitoring. With accuracy of up to 95 percent, the system automatically generates data on buildings scheduled for resettlement and the total area of new housing under construction. It also analyzes the demolition of aging residential buildings alongside the construction of new ones.
City officials expect the use of AI to accelerate the overall pace of the renovation program. That goal has taken on added urgency following a directive from Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin to double the speed of the project’s implementation.
Earlier reports also noted that Russian researchers have developed a separate software solution to calculate foundation settlement. That system is expected to replace foreign software, speed up construction timelines, and improve the structural reliability of buildings.
