On May 15 and 16, CEC Parkovy in Kyiv will host the second Ukrainian Construction Congress, which this year has significantly expanded, consolidated the Ukrainian government, business, public organizations and structures and will become a platform for a number of events of international and Ukrainian organizations.
In addition to its own program, which will consist of discussion panels, speeches and presentations by experts in various fields, the Second Ukrainian Construction Congress will include its own events by the Association of Small Cities of Ukraine, which will bring together 200 heads of communities and present the Supermarket of Solutions for Communities platform, which will enable businesses to enter the municipal market, the Association of ATO Veterans, whose participants will discuss veteran entrepreneurship, as well as events of the Union of Real Estate Professionals and the International Business Community Board.
According to Oksana Zholnovych, Minister of Social Policy, there are 3 million people with disabilities in Ukraine, and this number is constantly increasing, including due to the hostilities. Therefore, the key topic of the Congress will be the restoration of Ukraine with regard to barrier-free and inclusive development.
The Congress will traditionally become a platform for constructive dialogue, exchange of views and ideas between the government, developers, architects, builders, manufacturers of construction materials, the public sector and other industry players.
The main topics of the congress will be:
“Strategies and challenges of Ukraine’s recovery: ways to economic and social development in 2024-2025”;
“New approaches to construction in wartime. New safety standards and norms”
“Restoration of historical sites”;
“Veteran enterprise as a guarantee of public safety”
“Barrier-free and inclusive: challenges of today”;
“Women of Ukraine – the second force after the Armed Forces”
“Industrial reconstruction as an important driver of the Ukrainian economy”;
“Mortgage. Dependence on the NBU and the Ministry of Finance”;
“Prospects for the recovery of housing construction”.
A separate important part of the congress will be the panel “The work of international and Ukrainian funds, main directions, key projects and initiatives”. During the discussion, participants will discuss prospects in both construction and other areas, as well as ways to interact with communities, NGOs, and businesses.
As part of the concept of rebuilding Ukraine, the conceptual plans “Steel Dream Bakhmut” and “Steel Dream Mariupol” will be presented. And 2 certificates for the development of similar plans for two interested communities will be drawn.
The full program and speakers, as well as the registration form, are available at https://www.ubc-ua.info/.
For the first time, the Congress will include the announcement of the winners and award ceremony of the independent construction award “BUILDER OF THE YEAR – 2024”.
The awards will be given to companies, industry professionals and projects in 15 nominations in the categories of Construction, Architecture, and Business in the Construction Industry. The full list of nominations is available on the award website.
The winners will be selected by an honorary jury and a qualification commission consisting of leading Ukrainian architects, chief city architects, restorers, accessibility experts, as well as Christos Passas, director of the world’s top architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects, Hiroki Matsuura, architect, urbanist, founder of MASA, MADMA urbanism+lanscape, and Tetiana Lomakina, Presidential Commissioner for Accessibility. Julian Chaplynsky, a well-known Ukrainian architect, urbanist, and chief architect of Lviv in 2015-2018, was the chairman of the jury.
“The main task of the Congress is to develop Ukraine, its potential, and the development of Leadership in the country’s business. It is the Leaders who can change the situation for the better and help society find the path to development, progress, and prosperity, despite all the difficulties that surround us,” comments Igor Parubsky, organizer of the Ukrainian Construction Congress.
PARTICIPANTS
The participants and guests of the second Ukrainian Construction Congress will include representatives of the government, business, public and charitable organizations, advocates and foreign guests.
Among them are Vitaliy Koval, Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Tetiana Lomakina, Presidential Commissioner for Barrier-Free Access, Pavlo Kozyrev, Head of the Association of Small Cities of Ukraine, Tetiana Skrypka, Head of the Construction Sector Project Office at METINVEST-SMC, Kateryna Pryimak, head of the Veteranka movement, Volodymyr Popereshniuk, co-owner of NOVA Group, Garik Korogodsky, writer, founder of the Zhyttieliub Charitable Foundation, owner of the Dream shopping mall, Ihor Liski, co-founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Valeriy Pekar, lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla and Lviv Business Schools, Andriy Dligach, Ph. D., Chairman of Advanter Group, Vitaliy Melnyk, Vice President of UDP, and Vlad Goldakovskiy, founder of Goldakovskiy Group Architects.
Also invited to the congress are Oleksandr Kubrakov, Vice Prime Minister for Reconstruction of Ukraine – Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure, Natalia Kozlovska, Deputy Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, Olga Rudneva, CEO of Superhumans, Lina Kostenko, Ukrainian poet, writer, Mariana Oleskiv, Head of the State Agency for Tourism Development, Vladyslav and Iryna Chechotkin, co-owners of Rozetka. ua, Kateryna Glazkova, Executive Director of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs, Oleg Gorokhovsky, co-founder of monobank, Zoya Lytvyn, founder of the NGO Osvitoria, Natalia Shapovalova, CEO of ATB-Market, and others.
Link to photos from the press conference and the first congress: https://fex.net/uk/s/fmlm12t
Link to the broadcast of the program presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTMDo7_fvo
