One of the country's largest holdings, the BI Group, gathered more than 700 business partners in Astana today at the annual Suppliers Forum. The main topic of discussion was the problems hampering the development of the industry, as well as innovations that will make a qualitative leap in order to compete in foreign markets. According to builders’ opinion, digitalization can become a key in this process.

The speakers presented to the audience digital tools used in the daily practice of the BI Group. Documentation, tender procurement of materials, conclusion and payment of contracts, equipment orders were transferred to electronic format. An electronic portal has been created for this purpose. It is tied with a special mobile application BI PARTNERS, available to all partners, where there is a set of operational functionality in your personal account. During the year, the developer intends to transfer all the design and project management to the BIM format, which will significantly improve the quality of construction, provide for shortcomings at the design stage and significantly reduce the time. Pilot projects implemented by the company in BIM have shown high efficiency. According to Bauyrzhan Isabayev, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BI Construction and BI Road Construction told, the holding is growing annually and today it includes 5 companies implementing 184 projects in Kazakhstan and abroad. “Our activities are divided into segments for effective management - BI Construction (public infrastructure and social purpose), BI Development (housing), BI Engineering (oil and gas and heavy industry, transport infrastructure), BI Road Construction (road construction), BI Property (management of commercial real estate). In 2018, we plan to lay 165 km of roads, to commission 210 thousand square meters of socially significant objects, 946 thousand square meters of housing and commercial real estate, to work intensively on the implementation of foreign projects in 6 countries of the world. Such forums allow us to identify systemic problems and help contractors in training and development.” Bauyrzhan Isabayev said.

At the end of the forum, the most active companies in the issues of LEAN implementation and participation in BI Group charity projects were awarded with incentive signs.