Components of residential and commercial real estate maintenance services in Ukraine have gone up to 20% since the beginning of the war, said Ivan Petyukh, head of R-Class integrated real estate management platform.
“Consumables have risen in price by up to 20%, the cost of maintenance of engineering systems (by licensed third-party companies) by an estimated 10%,” he said.
The main challenges facing the R-Class in 2022-23 include. Petyukh singled out unforeseen disruptions in the supply of electricity, heat and water. In this regard, he said, the company is paying systematic attention to improving energy efficiency and energy independence. In addition to insulation of facades, R-Class specialists ensured and organized uninterrupted power supply of the objects by means of redundancy of electric capacities from different connection lines from the city, installation of additional diesel generators (capacity from 15 to 160 kW), installation of uninterrupted power supply sources (capacity from 12 kW); implemented a backup water supply/water drainage system.
The head of R-Class also noted that the introduction of the latest technologies helps to optimize utility costs and increase the service life of buildings. According to him, automated heat consumption systems that distribute the heat carrier depending on the current demands of the consumer and the outside air temperature, air recovery system, automatic gas analysis system in the parking premises that switches on/off the supply and exhaust ventilation depending on the air pollution, the latest air conditioning systems (VRV systems) that allow heating the premises at the outside temperature down to -15 in addition to the conventional water system allow saving energy resources.
R-Class’ integrated real estate management and development platform, which has been operating on the market since 2008, serves more than 300 thousand square meters of real estate. Among the objects are BC HILLFORT, BC Mikhailovskaya 7, Residential Complex “Pokrovsky Posad”, Residential Complex “Nobel” and others.
