Rebuilding Ukraine: SUR project funds comprehensive catalog for urban renewal building materials

The project "Strengthening Urban Resilience in Ukraine (SUR)" funded the creation of a "Catalogue of Ukrainian manufacturers and warehouses of the building production." It supports municipal administrations, contractors, donors, and customers working on reconstruction.

GIZ Ukraine reports that.

What is the problem?

With the onset of the full-scale invasion, building material manufacturers and warehouses have been destroyed. Increased prices and shortages of certain building materials in eastern Ukraine, especially glass, are the consequences. These trends aggravated with manufacturers relocating to the western part of the country, increasing logistical distances for cities in eastern Ukraine.

Meanwhile, information about the suspension of building material production is not always available to cities, as some websites do not reflect changes, and some production facilities halted operations without announcement to avoid risking the lives of workers and material resources.

What is the solution?

The SUR project provided funding for the development of a "Catalogue of Ukrainian building manufacturers and warehouses."

The catalogue improves public access systematized information about Ukrainian manufacturers of building products as well as ready-made product warehouses, especially for cities in the eastern regions. For convenience and to strengthen local networks, the catalogue contains a filters by region (province) within each group of building products. Similar information is presented about producers and warehouses of ready-made building products.

"The resilience of communities and local authorities is influenced by a range of factors, including the security context and the availability of economic, human, and material resources," said Hennadii Farenyuk, Acting Director of the State Enterprise "State Research Institute of Building Constructions", – The logistical aspect is extremely important when determining the final cost of building materials and planning the duration of reconstruction work. The presence of local production facilities and warehouses reduces costs and downtime on construction sites."

Catalogue lists about 215 manufacturers of building products and 124 warehouses of building materials from all over Ukraine. For each entity, details such as capacity, region and location, contact representatives (including English-speaking ones), product range, and certification of compliance are provided. The catalog is based on a survey of 3,785 respondents conducted in June-July 2024, which was sent out by the State Research Institute of Building Structures.

How does it work?

Applications are found in reconstruction of housing for IDP`s, rehabilitation of schools in Mykolayiv, procurement of goods and components for critical infrastructure enterprises in Chernihiv, strengthening the resilience of heat producers in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia. In such cases, quickly finding building materials within the region and securing logistics for delivery is crucial.

Also smaller communities can profit, as the case of the restoration in Makariv community in the Kyiv region shows. Building materials were purchased from a supplier located 200 km away, despite there being a local supplier with the same materials in stock. As a result, the delivery time could have been shorter, and the delivery cost was saved for local recovery project

According to the site's statistics, most of the site visitors are from the eastern regions of Ukraine, municipalities that are close to the frontline and often suffer the consequences of shelling, drone and missile attacks.

The most popular sections on the website are concrete and construction mixtures, precast concrete products, window and door units, pipeline products, facade systems, insulation materials.

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This activity was carried out by the project "Strengthening Urban Resilience in the Areas of Supply Infrastructure and Housing in Ukraine (SUR)" which is a part of the German transitional development assistance, commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH