In 2002 Elena Ivanovna Yumasheva, a graduate of the silicate faculty of the D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology (MCTI) (now RCTU) engineer chemist-technologist, Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, Honored Builder of Russia, became Editor-in-Chief of the journal. She sees her main task being the preservation of publishing culture and traditions formed during the long years; strengthening the role of the journal as an informal information link between industry science and industry as well as the practice of contemporary construction; raising the journal to a new qualitative level corresponding to new challenges of the time.