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This unique collaboration came about following NIRAS' consultancy on both the news centre and the concert hall in DR Byen.
The first phase involves the preparation of a feasibility study and the provision of advice on the preparation of engineering design activities to the Russian firm of architects and engineers OJSC Mosproject.

Patience paid off

According to Karol Marcinkowski, who is a director at NIRAS and has been the driving force behind the process, it requires particular persistence and a special strength of will to enter into contracts in Russia:
“We established contact to Russian NTV as far back as spring 2007 when they were planning a TV and multimedia centre in Moscow. At that time, the design of DR’s concert hall was well underway. Representatives of NTV have visited DR-Byen several times. They were here just before the summer holiday when NTV's deputy director met DR's head of music and head of news who kindly provided a guided tour of the whole of DR Byen”, he says and continues: “In addition, there have been countless trips to Moscow and meetings with technicians, managers and lawyers so it was wonderful to be able to present a signed contract on 6 October 2009”.

A need for advanced engineering art

It will be NIRAS’ job to prepare a feasibility study and to act as a kind of professional advisor, as a designer in selected specialist areas and as a consultant in general, when local OJCS Mosproject requires additional specialised skills.
“One of the reasons why NIRAS was selected is that we enjoy performing ground-breaking engineering art", says Finn Faurholt, head of department and the project’s director. “We proved this when we designed the concert hall in 3D. This new large project also imposes great demands on our creativity and engineering art”, Finn Faurholt concludes.
The contract, which runs into the hundreds of millions, is divided into several phases and will continue right up to the anticipated opening date in five years’ time.

  
NIRAS is to advise the Russian TV company NTV on the construction of a TV and multimedia centre - slightly smaller than DR Byen and situated close to the centre of Moscow.
Facts
NIRAS has entered into a consultancy contract with Russian "Telekompaniya NTV" in connection with the erection of a TV and multimedia centre. The centre will be situated in the centre of Moscow at 18-22 Novomoskovskaya St.
The new media centre will be constructed in 11 staggered levels and will house, among other things, radio and TV studios, offices, a control room, restaurant, foyer and reception. The centre will cover an area of 113,000 m².  This is almost the equivalent of the total area of all four of DR Byen’s segments. However, in Moscow, everything will be collected in one large building. 
NTV (HTB in Cyrillic characters) was established in 1993 and was one of the first independent TV stations in the new Russia. The TV station already had over 100 million viewers by 1999 and covered 70% of Russia. Since then, the company has been taken over by state-owned Gazprom Media and broadcasts to Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Canada and the USA.