Review article

The article considers the behavior of the main economic agents in the construction sector in the period 2000-2022 from the position of the institutional approach. The following indicators were analyzed: the volume of work performed under the foreign economic activity «Construction», statistics on the transition to escrow accounts, housing affordability coefficient, indicators of the implementation of the national project «Housing and urban environment» in St. Petersburg. The analysis of the sources allowed us to determine the reasons for the following: the abolition of the licensing system in construction; the transition to self-regulation and to project financing of housing construction; low indicators of housing affordability. The directions of digitalization of construction using BIM and CIM technologies are presented.