Thermal insulation of heating and water supply systems at Moscow State University with Bronya Classic

Dear colleagues, friends, we are sharing with you the joyful news - the completion of work, perhaps, for one of our most impressive clients - the replacement of thermal insulation of all heating and water supply systems at Moscow State University.

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) is a federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education. One of the oldest and largest classical universities in Russia, one of the centers of Russian science and culture, founded in 1755. The university motto is: "Science is a clear knowledge of truth, the enlightenment of reason." The main building of MSU is one of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers, grandiose architectural projects erected in Moscow in the post-war period. These buildings, combining elements of neoclassicism and Gothic, became symbols of the Soviet era and demonstrate the ambitious scale of Stalinist architecture.

Just think, in some areas the thermal insulation of pipes has not changed since the building was erected. Why? During the inspection, two amazing things were revealed: firstly, some branches of the pipeline "risers" were practically not subject to corrosion (some kind of special steel, apparently), and secondly, it turned out that almost all the previous original thermal insulation was carried out with a mixture similar in structure to natural (sheep?) wool and something like alabaster. Unknown technologies even for our specialists who have seen everything. The total length of all pipelines under insulation was several kilometers, and the average thickness of the Bronya coating was 2 mm. Several types of Bronya application were used:

•  Application in the form of application on existing pipelines,
•  Coating on new primed pipes before installation with subsequent installation,
•  And the use of Bronya coating in conjunction, or rather, in front of insulating shells (where, according to the total thermal calculation analysis, ultra-high thermal resistance indicators were needed). It is worth noting that the material has passed all stages of expertise at this facility. By the way, one of the tasks set by the engineering service of the university's operational administration is, among other things, the projected service life of thermal insulation indoors for at least 40-50 years (and ideally at least the same as our predecessor from the USSR - 70 years). Without a doubt, this is one of the most important and iconic projects in our portfolio.