The war in Ukraine is far from over but the race to rebuild many of the country's heavily damaged cities has already begun.
Earlier this week, more than 300 construction, engineering and technology companies from across Europe and the United States attended the Rebuild Ukraine exhibition in Warsaw in Poland.
"We believe that 2023 will be the end of the war and people are going to return. Our first priority is to rebuild residential buildings for them to return to," said Sergiy Zakharov, deputy mayor of Mariupol, speaking to RTÉ News through a translator. Finding investors for reconstruction projects is difficult, especially given that Ukraine is at war and even harder still for occupied cities like Mariupol.
"The main reason for Rebuild Ukraine is to speed up and intensify the financing of reconstruction and destroyed local communities all over Ukraine," Olena Kononenko, project director of Rebuild Ukraine told RTÉ News. Roco, a demolition and recycling company based in Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh was the sole representative from the island of Ireland at the expo.
It plans to build 450 apartments in Hostomel near Kyiv by early 2024. Approximately 80-90% of the materials used in the project will come from damaged buildings.
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