Experience as the Main Criterion in the Parametric Rationing Method

The current issue of a fundamental change in construction activities rationing is discussed, namely, the transition from the prescriptive principle of standards building to the parametric one. It is shown that such transition contains a high risk of losing the design quality, since along with it the quintessence of the accumulated by decades and even centuries experience, which is the core of the construction art, contained in the prescriptive method, is lost. It is noted that mastering the art of construction has always followed the pattern of medieval workshops – from a student (university graduate) to an apprentice, who for several years adopted the art of a master, and finally to the master, who has right to engage in professional activity independently. In modern Russia as the Soviet institutions disappeared, the continuity in the design business, the natural transfer of experience from generation to generation, has been broken. Self-regulation of construction activity by placing in the center of the liability system a legal entity instead of a physical person has significantly distorted the professional responsibility principle, generally accepted in foreign and Russian practice, which can only be based on the specialist competence (a legal entity cannot possess competence in the absence of a competent person). Giving standards a recommendatory character, the status of voluntary application, the creation of non-governmental expertise, independent certification of specialists, the transition from a prescriptive rationing method to a parametric one, and similar innovations not be able to bring positive results until a specialist is placed in conditions that oblige him to master the art of construction and design experience.