Сommunities and businesses should form demand for post-war Ukraine structure

Over 4,000 participants joined the discussion on the future of Ukraine during the architectural and construction BUSINESS FORUM "Reconstruction of the country. Change strategy for the architects, developers and builders" organized by the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine together with the Media Group DMNTR | "House and Interior".

“Since the Russian Federation full-scale invasion started, more than 50 million square meters of housing, which is about 9% of the entire housing stock, more than 1.2 thousand hospitals, more than 3 thousand educational institutions, thousands of kilometres of roads, hundreds of bridges, enterprises, infrastructure facilities have been destroyed or damaged. The homes of at least 1.3 million Ukrainian families have been damaged or destroyed, over 5 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee the country. We cannot know how long the war will go on but there is the task now to restore. And it has already started. To build better, al processes must be systematic, fast and transparent,” the President of CBU Lev Partskhaladze said, during the opening of the forum.

Over 9 hours of the main program discussion and 3 hours of the discussion within the framework of the Community Recovery Forum took place non-stop at several venues.

In the first panel of the main hall “Investments. Institutions. Reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the global business context”, the state instruments and programmes for attracting international aid, which had already been implemented, were discussed. 

In particular, the Head of Implementation of the State Agency for Restoration of Ukraine Vadym Nozdria described the agency functions and offices supporting at the local level, which help the communities to draw up