Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
Development banks are usually described as sources of money. From a contractor's point of view they are sources of rules, and the rules are why the…
No amount of investor enthusiasm produces a project without insurance. War risk cover is therefore the actual gate through which reconstruction passes.
Accessibility has moved from a compliance box to a mainstream design requirement, because a large number of people now need it and they are visible.
The phrase is used so often it has stopped meaning anything. It has a precise meaning, and it is written into building codes rather than speeches.
The temptation after damage is to restore exactly what was there. In energy that would mean rebuilding the concentration that made the system vulnerable.
Demolition waste is either an enormous disposal cost or a free supply of road aggregate. Which one it becomes is decided by regulation, not by engineering.
Demining is filed under humanitarian assistance. It is more accurately understood as the highest-return infrastructure investment available in Ukraine, and the one that has to come…
A school is not a building with desks in it. Rebuilding one means deciding what a school has to be able to do in the conditions…
Fifty billion euros over four years, disbursed against a reform plan with quarterly indicators. The amount matters. The predictability matters more, and it changes what a…
A detailed look at who is available to build, what they can do, and the specific measures that would enlarge the pool.
Reconstruction discussions concentrate on money. The binding constraint is more likely to be physical: contractors, plant, materials and people. It is worth assessing that honestly.
A city of several hundred thousand people lost its drinking water source and had to be supplied while a permanent replacement was engineered. The sequence is…
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