03.08.2021
On August 3, establishment of the Rosatom State Corporation Joint Design Institute has been accomplished. Being a legal entity of the Joint Design Institute, Atomenergoproekt JSC has been merged with the St-Petersburg companies, namely ATOMPROEKT JSC and SPb NIII EIZ JSC.
The Joint Design Institute joins now the three major institutes sited in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and St-Petersburg. Thus, the structure of "Atomenergoproekt", the All-Union State Research, Design and Survey Institute which existed until 1992, is being partially restored.
The foundation of the Joint Design Institute started on the basis of Atomenergoproekt JSC as a legal entity in 2019 and aimed to enhance the efficiency of the Engineering Division design unit’s operation. In particular, this alliance provided the opportunity to focus promptly and efficiently the efforts of the entire team of designers on the most complex projects, eliminate the intra-company competition, ensure professional development of the employees due to their relocation between business sites, jobs, projects, eliminate the need to conclude contracts between three legal entities, and reduce costs. In 2020, the merger of the Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod design institutes into a single organization was accomplished. The next step was to incorporate St. Petersburg ATOMPROEKT.
The time-consuming reorganization process was associated with the need to settle legal issues with customers, including foreign ones, due to the change of the contractor under the concluded contracts. Currently, all legal issues have been settled, which ensures the continuity of the production process.
As an outcome of the alliance of the work teams, the employment terms of those employees who transferred from ATOMPROEK JSC and SPb NIII EIZ JSC have been preserved, including the level of salaries, social welfare benefits, leave schedule, work site arrangement, business logistics and IT support.
Ruben Topchiyan, the Director General of Atomenergoproekt JSC, pointed out that as a result of the complicated work of the three design institutes unification, a powerful and efficient design unit of the Engineering Division had been founded. “Despite the fact that legally, the unification has completed just now, we have existed for a long time as a single team with three equal institutions. All of them work together at our facilities, we have the opportunity to redistribute tasks depending on the competencies and workload. And this is already yielding positive results in terms of fulfilling our obligations to implement projects in the Engineering Division's order portfolio ”.
Communications Division
of the Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division
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Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division unites the leading companies of the nuclear industry, namely: JSC Atomstroyexport (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, branches in Russia and abroad), Joint Design Institute - JSC Atomenergoproekt (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St-Petersburg branches - design institutes, branches in Russia and abroad, R&D branches) and subsidiary construction organizations.
The Engineering Division ranks first in the world by the order portfolio and the number of NPPs constructed simultaneously across the world.
About 80% of the Division’s revenues originate from foreign projects.
The Engineering Division implements construction projects for high-power NPPs in Russia and across the world, renders a full range of EPC, EP, EPC(M) services including project management and design activities, and develops Multi-D technologies for the management of complex engineering facilities. The Division relies on the achievements of the Russian nuclear industry and modern cutting-edge technologies.
We construct reliable and safe NPPs with III+Gen VVER reactors that are in line with all international requirements and recommendations.
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