Published on: 2026-05-26
Source: Saint Petersburg State Architectural and Civil Engineering University –
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Valeria Supranovich
A research project dedicated to the application of pneumatic systems for the transportation of goods in a residential complex has been completed at the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The study was carried out within the framework of the scientific and pedagogical workers’ grant of SPbGASU for the year 2026.
The relevance of the topic is determined by the objectives of the national project “Ecological Well-being,” established by the decree of the President of Russia No. 309 dated May 7, 2024. Within the framework of the federal project “Circular Economy,” special attention is paid to improving the system for handling solid municipal waste and developing secondary resource reuse mechanisms.
Today, the accumulation of household waste in residential areas is primarily carried out using container sites and in-house garbage disposal systems, while removal from courtyards is done by specialized transport. Such a system often leads to a reduction in the quality of secondary raw materials due to insufficient primary sorting and prolonged storage of waste in courtyards, as well as increasing the load on the urban road network.
Research conducted at the Department of Architectural Design of SPbGASU under the guidance of a candidate of architecture, associate professorValerii SupranovichFrom 2020 to 2026, it has been shown that issues of designing MSW handling facilities should not necessarily be considered within a single system of “residential development – waste sorting facility.” In the opinion of researchers, urban planning, functional-planning, and technological solutions for such facilities directly depend on the surrounding context and the purpose of the territory.
Within the framework of the scientific work “Features of functional and planning organization of residential complexes with the use of pneumatic transport systems for waste in the Russian Federation,” the existing regulatory framework and current approaches to the organization of waste collection in residential complexes in the country were studied. The authors of the study concluded that residential areas are one of the main sources of waste generation, and the implementation of pneumatic transport systems can improve the quality of primary sorting of MSW, reduce the time for waste removal, and decrease the transport load on urban infrastructure.
The research results are confirmed by the analysis of domestic and foreign experience. As a Russian example, the SberCity residential complex project in Moscow was considered, which involves the placement of MSW reception systems in the adjacent yard space. Among foreign analogs, researchers highlighted the Clichy-Batignolles district in Paris, where modern approaches are used to organize waste management systems.
The practical part of the research was continued by first-year Master’s students of the Department of Architectural Design of SPbGASU under the supervision of Valery Supranovich. As part of the development of concepts for the development of the “Utkina Zavod” and “Krasny Kirpichnik” territories in St. Petersburg, the students analyzed the possibility of integrating pneumatic transport systems from streets into the structure of modern residential complexes.
The obtained results can be used in the development of new residential construction projects and the improvement of urban infrastructure. The study emphasizes the necessity of an integrated approach to organizing the MSW management system and demonstrates the potential of modern technologies to increase the ecological sustainability of the urban environment.
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