After 500 days of war, Ukraine’s infrastructure has incurred massive damage, including destroyed water, power, transportation, housing, hospital, and school facilities. The Kyiv School of Economics estimates this damage at $127 billion or more. Although appalling, the destruction offers an opportunity to rebuild using the latest materials, sensors, concretes, and designs to ensure Ukraine’s infrastructure will be green, technology-enabled, and resilient for decades to come.
Cutting-edge techniques in delivery, including public-private partnerships, bundling projects to increase the scale of bids, combining project design and construction with operation and maintenance, capturing greenhouse gases, and requiring contracts to use the latest green technologies, can help enable “smart” delivery as well as the endurance of Ukraine’s infrastructure.
Join Rick Geddes from the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy for a high-level look at Ukraine’s near-term prospects for rebuilding with resilience and sustainability in mind.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPSCPIPRick Geddes at AEI’s Reconstructing Ukraine’s Infrastructure
