The present paper is concerned with the tasks of arrangement of the conditions for technology intensive, innovative and effective development of construction industry. The issues of advanced training and retraining of specialists in construction industry and housing and utilities infrastructure have been thoroughly studied and analysed. The new innovative approaches to improvement of intelligent potential of specialists and senior officials have been proposed to meet the up-to-date requirements. The main tendencies and trends for further development of professional education in the Russian Federation have been set out and verified for the next few years.