12 companies have been excluded from Sverdlovsk Region Builders’ Union recently. The decision was taken by the union’s board after the companies had failed to pay their membership fees in 2007 and 2008.

Among the excluded companies are: Domostroy, UKS Holding, Engineer, STKU, Uralmetallurgmontazh, UMPTK Uralmetallurgmontazh, Spasskiye Vorota Insurance Company, Sverdlovskgrazhdanstroy Trust, Insight Corporation, Engineer-Project, Polur, and a state-run company dealing in construction and maintenance of traffic engineering in Sverdlovsk Region’s cities and villages, Sverdlovsk Region Builders’ Union reports.

The annual membership fee comes to 42,000 RUR.