CIET 2026: CAI Interbudmontazh presented the Ashgabat metro project at the country’s main construction forum — and joined the conversation about how infrastructure attracts investment.

 

On 3–5 November, the international conference and exhibition «Development of the Construction, Industrial, Chemical and Energy Sectors of Turkmenistan» — CIET 2026 — was held in Ashgabat, at the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The forum was timed to the Day of Workers of the Construction and Industrial Complex and brought together more than 800 delegates from 60 countries.

The halls of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry brought together representatives of government agencies, investors and financial institutions, equipment manufacturers, contracting organisations, technology suppliers and industry experts. The business programme was built around the plenary session «Innovation. Investment. Growth» and branched out into tracks:

  • investment in infrastructure and public-private partnership;
  • the UN round table on Sustainable Development Goal 11;
  • energy and the chemical industry;
  • construction, architecture, digital construction and smart cities;
  • workforce training for the industries.

Pre-arranged B2B meetings — between companies — and B2G meetings — between government bodies and business — ran as a separate block. In parallel, an exhibition was open: construction equipment and technologies, engineering developments, digital solutions, innovative materials.

CAI Interbudmontazh stand at the CIET 2026 exhibition

At the Smart Metro Aşgabat stand we presented the metro as a system. Not a separate construction site and not a set of striking footage, but a line as a whole: tunnels with their lining and track superstructure, stations with concourses and passageways, and the engineering systems that tie all of it into a working facility. Some of the solutions were carried into a digital model — it makes it easy to explain how a section is put together and in what sequence it is built.

Round screen with tunnel lining at the Smart Metro Aşgabat stand

Vladimir Petruk, Managing Director of Interbudmontazh, spoke at the third session of the forum — «Mobilising Investment in Infrastructure and Industrial Growth: Public-Private Partnership and Connectivity».

An infrastructure facility lives for decades, yet it is expensive and paid for upfront. Public-private partnership makes it possible to share this burden: the state provides the project, the rules and the guarantees, business brings technology, financing and responsibility for the result — and both sides share the risks under the contract. «Connectivity» in the session title is about the same thing, only wider: a road or a metro line is valuable not in itself, but for what it connects — districts, cities and markets.

Session 3 of CIET 2026: investment in infrastructure, PPP and connectivity

CIET 2026 is over; the work is not. The next stage is subject-specific meetings on the facilities discussed in Ashgabat and the preparation of technical proposals: with calculations, phases and timelines. If you have a project that needs a review or a preliminary estimate, tell us about it and we will propose a solution.