VORONEZH. Dec 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The 8th Defense Project Institute has been certified according to the international ISO- 9000 standard.
The institute has become the first defense project research establishment to certify its quality system. It has developed and implemented a new better market-adopted management system oriented for consistent increase of quality, chief of the institute Colonel Vladimir Malyavin told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday.
He said that after the Quality Registrar of the Russian State Construction Committee had awarded the institute the ISO- 9000 certificate, his organization had been appointed the leading among defense institutes for implementation of quality systems.
ISO-9000 international standards are valid in 97 countries across the globe.
"It is not only a new level of production discipline and responsibility, ISO-9000 is a ticket to the future. Today our institute is No. 41 on the list of the leading project-and- research establishments in Russia. We will go further. We are developing papers for implementation of higher-level quality systems," Malyavin said.
According to Malyavin, main activity of the institute is related to federal programs for servicemen's housing. In particular, the institute, together with architects from Voronezh, successfully participated in Voronezh and Belgorod housing tenders (13,000 apartments all in all), won some tenders in the Moscow region and received new orders. The institute is in progress with a 1,000-apartment project, as well as a project of a 17-story mass concrete apartment-and-office block with underground parking and a project of three 16-story apartment blocks.
The institute has been successfully cooperating with the Defense Ministry Project Organization headed by Colonel Alexander Klimov, and with foreign firms. In particular, such contacts were established when projecting apartment blocks for servicemen in Boguchar, Voronezh, Yelnya, and Kursk, he said.