Capital construction is dynamically developing in the Chelyabinsk Region. In 2007 over 12.5 billion rubles including budgetary funds are spent on construction. In 2006 over 1 million of sq.meters of living spaces became available (121.2% compared to 2005) including 483 thousand sq.meters which were put into service by individual developers; construction of two schools for 525 pupils, three health institutions for 198 patients, three sport projects were finished, metropolitan construction is continued. In 2007 construction of the federal cardiology centre, where it is planned to perform 10 thousand operations per year, was started.
More than 400 enterprises of construction sector and building materials industry, situated in the territory of the region, continuously supply building projects with their products. In 2006, compared to 2005, the output of cement grew by 9.0 %, production of large-panel and large-block building structures - by 59.%, brick output - by 8.5%; the output of other building materials, structures and products also increased. With the existing volume of construction and its annual growth enterprises of the construction industry are mostly provided with local raw materials, reserves of which are sufficient in the region.
A number of construction enterprises and building material enterprises of the region constantly undergo modernization and retooling; new facilities are put into operation.
Besides, many other enterprises of the construction sector undergo reconstruction and modernization, introduce new technologies for construction of houses of different structures and production of up-to-date building materials, structures and products.