Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
A building designed to Eurocodes is accession-ready, insurable, financeable and comprehensible to a foreign contractor. One designed to the old norms is none of those.
A community with its own tax revenue could in principle borrow against it. What stands between that principle and a signed loan is mostly accounting.
Public-private partnership is proposed for almost everything in reconstruction and suits a narrow set of projects. Knowing which set saves a great deal of wasted preparation.
Public money and development bank lending will not cover the bill. Private capital will come only where the risk is shared and the revenue is identifiable.
Almost no reconstruction work will be delivered by a single company operating alone. The consortium structures that will do the work have predictable shapes, and the…
A damaged historic building presents a question ordinary construction never has to answer: how much of it can be renewed before it stops being the thing…
A destroyed town can be rebuilt as it was, or as it should have been. The second is better and much harder, and the difference is…
A city of over a million people, close to the border, that has stayed occupied by its own inhabitants throughout. The engineering response has been unusual.
Some communities rebuilt early, quickly and well. What they had in common is not funding, and identifying it is more useful than admiring the result.
Before a single house is rebuilt, someone has to be able to prove who owned it. That is a registry problem, and it decides how fast…
Very large sums spent quickly through construction contracts is the classic setting for procurement failure. The safeguards are known and they have to be built in…
A great deal has been said about the scale of Ukraine's reconstruction and very little about what a company should be doing now if it intends…
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