By caring about cultural heritage we greatly reduce the carbon footprint. How? Here is the answer

Caring about cultural heritage, attention to the culture and the history of the countries where we work is a distinctive characteristic of our company's activities and an integral part of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy. This is necessary both for the efficiency of business, especially those engaged in tourism or providing services to foreign companies, but also from the point of view of our responsibility as earthlings. Any responsible business and we consider ourselves to be such should understand and preserve cultural heritage and take this factor into account when making strategic decisions.

Let’s take one example that shows our responsible behavior towards cultural heritage. We always strive to preserve the buildings where our offices are located in their historical form, but at the same time modernize them from inside to make them convenient and modern, such as replacing engineering communications with modern ones, carrying out regularly necessary preventive and capital works. Of course, all work inside the building is carried out only after receiving reports from technical and other experts on how to properly and carefully carry out these works.

The building of our business center in Tashkent, where our office is located, has preserved its historical appearance. As you know, in the 1960s and 1970s, in the USSR a new style of architecture was developed - a simple, economical architecture based on a new industry and expressing the capabilities of modern technology, where the cube remains the main architectural form as a symbol of peace and order. Our building has a form of a cube and can be attributed to both architectural styles - the Soviet constructivism and Soviet modernism. This is due to the fact that architectural modernism, the period of which falls in the mid-1950s and until the end of the 1980s, came to the USSR from the West and transformed into Soviet modernism. The origins of Soviet modernism lie directly in the works of Le Corbusier, who by the 1950s had reworked the foundations of Soviet constructivism into a new, own architectural style. As a result, Soviet modernism is imbued with Soviet constructivism.

Although this architectural style came from the West, it was locally reworked deriving from that time historical conditions when the USSR was undergoing a period of both new industry and new technology development. As a result, like all the buildings of the Soviet modernism of that time, our building is characterized by simplicity and economy, but at the same time expresses possibilities.

By having preserved the historical appearance of the building we greatly reduce the carbon footprint. We believe that reusing a building versus tearing it down and building with new materials helps to greatly reduce the carbon footprint of a building. At the same time our building is now equipped with all modern engineering communications. As a result, the convenience and comfort of our customers and the preservation of the historical appearance are ensured.