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Plans to batch produce prefabricated wooden homes in Belarus
MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – The Belarusian Forestry Ministry is working to promote prefabricated wooden homes of its own making onto the market, BelTA learned from Belarusian Forestry Minister Aleksandr Kulik after the minister delivered a report to the head of state.
Aleksandr Kulik said: “We’ve developed standard designs. We are now going through legal procedures in order to be able to use them multiple times. The main components for building the houses are sold via trade platforms by forestry enterprises.”
After Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko visited such a trade platform in Minsk in March, the Forestry Ministry was instructed to make prefabricated wooden homes. The demand for and supply of this kind of products on the home market are being studied now. As many as 12 contracts on manufacturing prefabricated homes have been signed with citizens. Measures are being taken to expand the lineup of the available houses. Taking into account the population’s demand, two more designs for building small houses have been worked out. As of 1 July 2023 as many as 19 forestry enterprises acquired equipment and are ready to make the prefabricated houses that are on display. The number of manufacturers will be raised to 25 by the end of the year.
Providing the nation with products made by forestry enterprises was emphasized during the report. In 2022 the head of state signed decree No.294, which optimized sales of commercial timber to individual persons at lower prices for the sake of building, rebuilding, and repairing residential houses or household outbuildings. At present citizens can get up to 70m3 of timber at more affordable prices in comparison with commodity exchange prices for building or rebuilding and up to 10m3 of timber for current repairs of the appropriate real estate properties. As many as 2,500 citizens used this right in H1 2023 alone.
Apart from that, in order to fulfill instructions of the head of state and the government to reduce the cost of timber, forestry enterprises offer lower prices for timber for housing construction in rural areas, including rented housing for workers of agricultural enterprises and the population with the profit margin limited to 5%.
According to the forestry minister, Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to the need to keep an eye on the matter, to make sure that goods with social discounts are received only by those, who need them, to make sure to avoid abuses.
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