On April 7, 2019, the final of the All-Russian case championship was held, organized jointly by the Metropolis company and NRU MGSU.

At the last stage, the teams presented their work on the topic "Information Modeling of City Objects" under the slogan "BIM in the Big City".

More than 60 teams - 380 people - applied for participation. However, only 16 teams (100 people) completed the first task of the case. Only 5 teams passed to the second stage, and these are 35 people. In the full-time final stage, 4 universities fought in the skill of defending their project.

Throughout all stages of the project development, the team members were consulted by experts from the Metropolis company. Consultations were held via skype twice a week, where students could ask and discuss all the necessary questions and fundamental decisions on their projects.

The team of Metropolis experts who provided advice and support to students included:

1. Fyodor Isaev, Chief Structural Engineer
2. Svetlana Parkhomenko, Head of BIM Technology department
3. Sergey Bryuzgin, Head of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning department
4. Evgeny Skripka, Head of Water Supply, Sewerage and Fire-Fighting Systems department
5. Sergey Sokolov, Chief Specialist of Water Supply, Sewerage and Fire-Fighting Systems department
6. Marina Egorenkova, Head of Construction Management Plan department

For the convenience of interaction, a cloud storage was organized, where any of the experts from Metropolis or NRU MGSU, as well as a participant in the competition, could at any time view the project and BIM model of each of the teams, as well as leave their comments and recommendations.

Participants were given 5 weeks to solve the case. The approaches of the teams were completely different, the works differed in architectural and constructive solutions, the resources used, the technology for demonstrating and protecting the material, the quality of the information model (based on the results checked for collisions). And in the final presentation one could feel the sincere interest of the participants in the victory.

The jury of the last (in-person) stage of the championship included:

1. Fyodor Isaev, Chief Structural Engineer at Metropolis
2. Svetlana Parkhomenko, Head of BIM Technology department at Metropolis
3. Alexey Skochergov, Development Director at Hilti
4. Alexey Davydov, Director of the REC "Smart City" of NRU MGSU
5. Olga Kuzina, Director of IEUIS NRU MGSU
6. Ivan Pulyaev, Head of the MCC UMU NRU MGSU
7. Maxim Kristal, Head of the IKS SNO IEUIS

All teams demonstrated a high level of knowledge, as well as a creative approach to solving problems. The competition was fair and very tense. The teams confidently defended their projects and were ready for any questions from the jury members.

According to the results of the voting, the places were distributed in the following order:

1st place – SPbGASU team
St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

1. Dmitry Shcheglov, Heating and Ventilation (captain)
2. Elizaveta Saifullina, Air Conditioning
3. Alena Gavrilova, Architect
4. Viktor Tsyganovkin, Structural Engineer
5. Yuriy Zgoda, BIM manager
6. Anastasia Gutman, Construction Management Plan
7. Timur Drisi, Water Supply and Sanitation

2nd place - BIMteam (E)
National Research Moscow State Construction University (NRU MGSU, Moscow)

1. Konstantin Efimov, Captain
2. Stanislav Lavrenyuk, Architect
3. Andrey Filin, Structural Engineer
4. Sergey Shibanov, Economist
5. Vladislav Dyutin, Use Case specialist
6. Anastasia Martynova, Construction Management Plan
7. Nadezhda Ivanova, BIM manager

3rd place - BSTU team
Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov

1. Polina Davidenko, Captain, BIM manager
2. Irina Ryzhykh, Architect
3. Ivan Sidenko, Structural Engineer
4. Tatyana Mamina, Economist
5. Ivan Goltsov, Engineering Network Specialist
6. Ekaterina Chepurko, Construction Management Plan
7. Ekaterina Kharina, Structural Engineer

The first three teams received memorable prizes and souvenirs from the Metropolis company and NRU MGSU.

The main prizes from the Metropolis company were distributed as follows:

1. The SPbGASU team (St. Petersburg) gets the opportunity to undergo an internship at the Metropolis company with the possibility of further employment.
2. The BIMteam (E) team (NRU MGSU) gets the opportunity to undergo an on-the-job practice at the Metropolis company.
3. Team BSTU (Belgorod) gets the opportunity to participate in tours of existing and under construction facilities of the company.

We will be glad to cooperate with students, perhaps our future colleagues!