Rustam Minnikhanov visits innovation centers of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has acquainted with the project “Intelligent Workplace Lab” at the school of architecture of Carnegie Mellon University (USA, Pittsburgh).

The Tatarstan President was accompanied by Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, rector of the Kazan (Volga) Federal University Ilshat Gafurov and others.

To the point, Rustam Minnikhanov is on a business trip in Pittsburgh to learn about activity of Carnegie Mellon University and its research centers (September 4-5, 2012).

“Intelligent Workplace Lab” occupies 630 m² and represents a lived-in laboratory that sits atop the academic building of the university. The laboratory deals with research and innovations in the sphere of design of workplaces. Such researches are meant to improve life of many office workers due to creation of personal comfort and increase of productivity.

Members of the Tatarstan delegation were told about modern principles of design and construction, including balanced architecture and design, approaches to energy saving, maximum use of daylight for the workplace, decrease of costs and negative impact on the environment.

Director of the school of architecture Donald Carter told about projects on planning new cities and districts. Projects of Carnegie Mellon University have been implemented in India, Russia, notably the Moscow region and Novokuznetsk.

Guests were also told about changes faced by Pittsburgh since 30s of the last century.

Carnegie Science Center is one of four Carnegie museums in Pittsburgh. It was opened in 1991 and now represents an entertainment interactive park. There are about 30 interactive areas for children of different ages located on five floors of the center. The world’s largest exhibition of robotics can be seen here as well.