Shimanovsky Ukrainian Institute of Steel Construction is a Ukrainian scientific research and design organization that specializes in the design and construction of bridges, towers, plants, stadiums and other structures in Ukraine, the former Soviet republics and other countries.
The institute has created television towers in Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Kharkiv, It has built plants in Algeria, Nigeria, India and Turkey.
One of the institute's largest projects was the construction of the Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kyiv, the first all-welded bridge in the world In December 1944, in what was then the Soviet Union, the Institute opened in Kyiv as special design bureau of the Promsteelconstruction, run by the Soviet Government.
The main task of this bureau was the renovation or reconstruction of bridges, industrial buildings, and other objects destroyed during Second World War.
In June 1994, the Government of Ukraine organized SDI into an open joint-stock company, the Ukrainian Research and Design Institute of Steel Construction.
In 1997, it was included on a list of scientific-technical organizations that had strategical significance for the national economy and security.
These projects include bridges, towers, slip docks, metal structures plants, frameworks of unique buildings and facilities.
Shimanovsky Ukrainian Research and Design Institute of Steel Construction became a limited liability company, the V.N.
Team of engineers and scientists, who created the intellectual centre of the group, was formed in Institute: V.N.
[2] Institute specialists participate in the work of the Scientific Coordination and Expert Council on problems of resources and safe maintenance of structures, buildings and machines under Ukrainian government agencies.
[4] The institute participated in developing the Concept of State program to ensure technical safety in major metal structures.
The institute has designed all-welded high-rise TV towers in Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Kharkiv.
It has also designed antenna masts that are over 260 m high for broadcasting stations, unified towers for TV re-transmitters and radio relay lines.
Leading design, construction, and mounting organizations were involved in the erection of television towers on all stages.
Institute specialists helped develop and erect the Mother Motherland monument on the grounds of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv.
[5] Institute specialists have designed and built many large industrial facilities, including metallurgical works and metal structures manufacturing plants.
[6] The institute has designed oil storage tanks for oil refineries of Ukraine, including a raw materials park for Naftokhimik-Prykarpattia in Nadvirna The quarterly Journal publishes articles about architecture, design, the building of industrial-purposed objects and engineering structures.
It also publishes new research results on technical diagnostics, development, and improvement of metal building the normative base.
[7] The collection of proceedings includes articles with research results in a branch of calculation and design of structures; theoretical and structural mechanics; theory of elasticity and plasticity; development of calculation and design methods for structures, buildings and facilities, development of rational types of structures, and also experimental theoretical research of elements and connections work, improvement of materials, manufacturing and erection technology, repair and reconstruction of buildings and facilities, development and improvement of the normative base in building branch.
Scientific and technical assistance of reconstruction of National sports complex "Olympiyskiy" in Kiev / Edited by O.V.