"Warm" house

For more than a week now, Russia has been in the grip of unrelenting frosts - from minus 18 in Moscow to minus 50 in Siberia. Meteorologists claim that such anomalies have not been observed since 1938.

Moving around in such cold weather is really not a pleasant task. But, going out into such cold weather, probably each of us is warmed by the thought that, having reached home, we will find ourselves in warmth and comfort.

To make new houses in Moscow “warmer and more comfortable,” the capital’s authorities will begin to use warm ceramics, which retain heat better than brick or curtain panels.

As Yuliana Andrianova, head of the department for the examination of innovative equipment and technologies at NIIMosstroy, said, we are talking about large-format stones made of porous ceramics. These are blocks, porous inside, from which the walls of the building are made.

Of course, for most people, besides those citizens who will live in such houses, this is neither warm nor cold. But, if you believe the words of the deputy head of the facade reliability laboratory of the Central Research Institute of Building Structures (TsNIISK) named after. V.A. Kucherenko Vladimir Zakharov, who claims that since such material retains heat much better, the city will be able to save on heating such buildings. And the lower the heating costs, the lower the tariffs for paying for it should be. Of course, this process is quite lengthy, and the first houses built from the new material will only be delivered in a few years. But Moscow was not built right away, and “General Frost,” despite all the scientists’ talk about global warming, constantly reminds us of what prevented the French from winning the Great Patriotic War of 1812. Therefore, actions aimed at improving methods of heating buildings will be relevant in Russia for a very long time.