The crisis in the public works market continues, while sustainable construction shows that it is moving against the trend and that it can represent a concrete opportunity to relaunch a fundamental sector. This is what emerges, in extreme synthesis, from the report "Public and private partnership and sustainable building in Italy in 2013" edited by Unioncamere in collaboration with CRESME, and presented today in Rome during a conference.
In the last two years, with the worsening of the crisis and cuts in public spending, the public works market has collapsed, recording a -52% in the number of transactions. The decline affects both execution-only public works and the Public and Private Partnership sector, the sector on which so much is focused to relaunch the country's infrastructure spending. The difficulties of the PPP, after the collapse of the amounts tendered in 2012 (-41%), persist also in 2013 (-34%).
The collapse of the large infrastructure market is contrasted by a phase of growth in the demand for interventions of medium-large amount, driven by urban redevelopment interventions, with growth rates of the amounts in the tender of 10% for the entire market and more than 30 % for PPP operations only. The largest number of reference PPP initiatives for sustainable construction fall into this size bracket.
According to the president of Unioncamere Ferruccio Dardanello "In a market like that of public works, which is still severely in crisis, sustainable development and environmental protection are important levers for restarting investments and employment". "It is an area - continues Dardanello - which involves the country's strategic assets and which concerns indispensable interventions to secure our territories".
