Assimpredil, 'raw materials are missing, construction sites at risk'

Assimpredil raises the alarm on raw materials on construction sites. A shortage - we read in a note - which generates a "continuous surge in prices" and which is bringing companies "to a point of no return" as "you have to choose whether to stop them or work at a loss". Some companies are forced to recover raw materials abroad, with a "significant" increase in procurement costs.

A framework which, according to Assimpredil, generates "repercussions on the regular continuation of the works in progress and those already planned and awarded, also affecting the completion of those financed by the Pnrr". On the price front, a "volatility now out of control" was then generated and an "uncertainty that clashes head-on with the chronic rigidity of public contracts, built on timescales that are now difficult to meet, and prices that the market has already largely exceeded".

"Now more than ever - concludes the association of construction entrepreneurs of Milan, Lodi and Monza Brianza and the main body of Ance-Confindustria - a transparent and real discussion with the institutions is necessary: ​​concrete tools and extraordinary measures are needed, immediately, to rebalance contracts unbalanced by the market before the construction sites themselves, together with the companies and their workers, collapse".