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🌐 On October 1, 2024, Business Day was held as part of an extended meeting of the Board of Directors of СBU!

During the event, the current challenges of the industry and effective coordination of efforts for the future reconstruction of Ukraine were discussed.

📋The program of the event included several blocks:

🔹Block 1: State of professional training of personnel for the construction industry. National study

🔹Block 2: Challenges of modern development: policy and forecasts

🔹Block 3: Extended meeting of the Board of Directors of СBU

✅During the third block of the event, an extended meeting of the Board of Directors of СBU was held, the participants of which discussed current issues of the construction industry and the possibilities of consolidating efforts to rebuild Ukraine.

✔️ Lev Partskhaladze, President of CBU, gave a welcome speech at the beginning of the meeting. He told the audience about the current state of the construction industry and introduced the future activities of the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine.

👤Olena Shuliak, Head of the VRU Committee on State Building, Local Governance, Regional and Urban Development, Head of “Servant of the People”, spoke about the main directions of the Draft Law on the State Budget of Ukraine for 2025.

She informed that together with the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine and the specialized Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, a request was submitted to include UAH 40 billion in the draft budget of Ukraine to finance the eVidnovlennia (eRenovation) program.

Also, according to Olena Shuliak, the Draft Law on the State Budget of Ukraine for 2025 provides UAH 9.4 billion for financing the eOselia (eHousing) program.

She spoke about the three main components of the Ukraine Facility plan and emphasized the importance of business and community cooperation for the further development of the state.

👤Nataliia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, informed about the launch of the practical operation of the Urban Cadastre at the state level and the creation of a project to replace the Housing Code of Ukraine.

She familiarized those present with the main legislative processes on which the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine is working.

Also, Nataliia Kozlovska reminded that the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine provided an explanation to solve the VAT problem in the issue of housing construction with state funds.

👤 Oleksandr Novytskyi, Head of the State Inspectorate for Architecture and Urban Development of Ukraine, spoke about the main achievements of Inspectorate over three years of work. In particular, he noted that the number of refusals to receive a certificate of facility commissioning decreased from 49% to 20%.

Oleksandr Novytskyi presented a project of clarifications regarding the requirements for obtaining a certificate for putting the facility into operation. It is a reminder containing the main structural and system elements of construction, which depend on the acceptance of the object into operation.

Also, the Chairman of Inspectorate reminded about the possibility of online reception with the leadership of DIAM and presented the new application "Transparent Construction", which digitizes the work of state control inspectors.

Oleksandr Novytskyi announced the launch of an application for beginners in the field of urban planning, which will help companies avoid mistakes when obtaining a certificate for putting an object into operation.

👤Mykola Marchuk, Chairman of the Board of State Fund for Support of Youth Housing Construction (SFYH), introduced his colleagues to the work of the SFYH.

In particular, he cited the main support programs implemented by the foundation and talked about the involvement of SFYH employees in the expert environment and the development of regulatory and legal acts.

Regarding international cooperation, Mykola Marchuk reported on the cooperation of the Foundation with the Government of Germany and the KFV Reconstruction Bank, thanks to which the project "Residential premises for internally displaced persons" is being implemented.

👤 Yehor Fareniuk, Director of the Energy Efficiency Fund of Ukraine, spoke about the Fund's activities, development prospects and new programs.

He noted that the Energy Efficiency Fund continues to provide applications in three static directions:

💠Energy efficiency - "EnergoDIM" (EnergoHOME) program

💠Restoration of destroyed high-rise buildings - "VidnovyDim" (RectoreHOME) program

💠Installation of solar stations and heat pumps in multi-apartment buildings - "GrinDIM" (GreenHome)

Yehor Fareniuk spoke in detail about each of the programs and expressed the readiness of the Foundation to further development of each of them for the implementation of energy-efficient solutions in Ukraine.

👤Eugene Metzger, Chairman of the Board of Ukrfinzhytlo, presented the results of the eOselia (eHousing) program for two years since its inception.

💬Eugene Metzger described in details the cooperation with developers and noted that the program covers 98% of the mortgage market of Ukraine: "Even the entire banking system, which implemented mortgages in the period before the full-scale invasion, showed smaller volumes, compared to what we do in wartime".

He also announced further updates to the program, including the ability to participate in the program for borrowers who already participated in other public housing programs, but whose housing was destroyed or damaged, or located in temporarily occupied territories.

👤Tetiana Korotka, Deputie Business Ombudsman, emphasized the role of the construction industry for the economy of Ukraine and noted the positive impact of reforms that have affected the industry recently. In particular, the number of appeals related to the activity of the construction market decreased.

Tetiana Korotka also announced the start of work of the Council of the Business Ombudsman of Ukraine on recovery issues and invited to further dialogue, in particular, on the issue of creating protective structures for critical infrastructure.

🤝 Finnish partners of CBU - representatives of IHDA (Integrated Hospital Design Alliance): Jukka Vasara, Rami Kolehmainen, Henry Pesonen were also present at the event.

They presented the activities of the IHDA and described the details of support for each stage of hospital design, planning and construction.

In particular, IHDA and CBU, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Ministry of Community and Territories Development of Ukraine, are developing a project of typical hospitals, which will allow the rapid restoration of the destroyed infrastructure. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) act as supervisors of the project.

Stay tuned for more information!

WE WILL WIN AND REBUILD EVERYTHING! 💪

TOGETHER TO VICTORY! 

GLORY TO UKRAINE! 💙💛