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The article presents a study of the interaction of strip foundations of multistorey apartment houses united by flat cylindrical shells with a ground base. The foundation of a 17-storey residential building has been taken as an example. The ground base consists of strong upper and highly compressible underlying layers. The use of traditional foundations under the specified conditions is hardly possible. The calculation scheme of the building and the stages of the ground foundation work are represented. Also, the researchers share the results of geotechnical monitoring in the construction process including observations of settlings at 25 points with an accuracy of 0.1 mm and measurement of layer-by-layer deformations of the ground base under the building to a depth of 10 meters from the surface. The diagrams demonstrate the actual settlement of the building with increasing load and layer-by-layer deformations of the ground base in depth are presented.

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This paper dwells upon the garbage reform, the problems of its implementation in the regions of Russia. The relevance and practical significance are connected with increasing environmental require-ments for the life of modern man and the need to analyze the implementation of the reform in the country. As a result of the reform, the authority for handling solid municipal waste (SMW) was trans-ferred to the regional level through the creation of regional operators; garbage collection and sorting are defined as a separate utility service; the scheme of waste management and the payment scheme for their removal and sorting have been changed. The assessment of the current situation in the regions made it possible to formulate key problems that are all-Russian in nature: the lack of containers for gar-bage sorting, collisions in regulations, the non-compliance of landfills with modern requirements, unauthorized landfills, the reluctance of people to sort garbage and others. A number of recommenda-tions were proposed, in particular, training the population in separate garbage collection, including on-line Internet resources.