The paper considers the issues of improvement of the evaluation methods of new materials in construction. The features of regulatory control over the use of resources in Russia are characterized by the presence of a dual approach to choosing a regulatory framework, which in some cases leads to incorrect choice of materials. Engineering solutions during design are closely dependent on the cost parameters laid down in the regulatory and methodological framework. As a result, the problem of improving norms and methodologies is relevant for highly significant regulation. The property of recursivity of design solutions, normative support of construction and quantitative parameters of construction materials used in the design of structures is noted. The mutual influence of the process of developing standards and their further application in projects made it possible to use the recurrent formula tool for pre-design analysis of the possibility of using certain materials. The method allows performing a separate analysis of the possibility of application in projects for different materials, which can be useful when introducing new materials. On the basis of the proposed calculation method, conclusions on the need to improve the process of developing standards were drawn. The main problems of regulating the consumption of construction resources at the present stage are formulated. The need to design new standards based on the practice of applying new materials in construction projects was noted. The paper suggests the mechanisms to solve the problem of improving the reliability of determining a set of construction materials when designing construction works in transport construction, which would reduce the time for developing new and updating the existing standards. The assessment of the applicability of construction materials should not remain within the framework of subjective decisions of the engineering practice; on the contrary, it should improve the calculation methods to justify the applicability of materials.

The purpose of the research is to assess the global quality of project design documentation for capital construction at the preliminary stage of investment projects in the context of the properties and qualities of applied construction materials. The problem of the assessment of the quality of construction and finishing materials in the subdivisions of Russian Railways, the largest Russian company, raises fundamental issues of regulatory and methodological support during the choice of engineering solutions and reasonability grounds of investments in the construction and reconstruction of transport infrastructure facilities. According to the formal indicators for the assessment of the properties of materials in the company, the authors used a method based on a separate analysis of the regulatory and methodological support of the construction preparation process. The main quality criterion was adopted in the form of deviations in documentation by the internal examination service of the company projects due to the unreliability in the determination of the physical properties of material resources. The main tool to influence the design process is the formalization of requirements for accounting construction materials, especially innovative ones, in project design documentation. These requirements are reflected in the proposed methodology for the generation of documentation at the early stages of investment project. A retrospective analysis of the verification results of infrastructure projects in the company showed that after the introduction of uniform requirements for the applied materials and the introduction of the basic provisions of materials science in the methodological documents, a positive trend has occurred during internal verification. The decrease in the number of incorrectly determined values of the need for construction materials indicate that cost certification has become more explicit and accessible to developers. It is proved that the tool for the management of the quality of construction materials by specifying the structure of documents justifying the main design decisions is the most effective. The idea is confirmed that the greatest responsibility for the efficiency of the applied material resources falls on the early stages of project development. The efforts made by the Company in this direction lead to positive changes.

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