The ninth edition of REbuild, the event dedicated to sustainable innovation in the built environment held at Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, closed on Wednesday 10th May 2023.
These are the salient figures of REbuild 2023, a privileged platform of confrontation between institutions, policy makers, professionals, entrepreneurs, experts, scientists, Italian and international players of the construction industry: 16 meetings, 4 workshops, 2 plenary sessions at the opening and closing of the two-day event in Riva del Garda, a parterre of 29 companies and the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento, 4 scientific partners and 5 selected start-ups, 20 patronages, 15 media partners and 500 participants.
REbuild raised some fundamental issues not only for the construction sector, but for the entire country-system, as Minister Pichetto Fratin pointed out at the opening of the conference. It was Ezio Micelli, Professor at the Iuav University of Venice and President of the REbuild Scientific Committee, who traced out the reading of the event, identifying the fundamental points around which the meetings developed: innovation in a sustainable key from an environmental, energy, aesthetic, social and circular point of view; the real estate market, with the entire supply chain, increasingly aligned to ESG criteria; the sharing of knowledge, visions and values by the entire community of reference; digitalisation, the real revolution of the sector that is innervating all aspects of building, from design to manufacturing, from construction to management, to services, will extend its scope to neighbourhoods, cities, territories and large infrastructures.
Closing the two-day event was the extraordinary contribution of internationally renowned architect Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT Architects), who illustrated how technology, reuse, authorship, circularity and environmental impact can coexist and, moreover, how beauty and sustainability can and must be combined on a small and large scale.
During the concluding plenary session, it was Silvia Rovere, President of Assoimmobiliare, who asked the government for a package of financial instruments “to help the Italian real estate heritage that continues to lose value (-15% from 2010 to 2022)“.
Participation in REbuild is a choice of commitment and “militancy” to make the path of radical change – of culture, visions, tools, materials, etc. – possible. – of the building industry.
The innovative processes illustrated at REbuild, in all their meanings, according to the participants, must enter fully into the industrial policies of the country, which in terms of real estate heritage shows, data in hand, great fragility.
“Being at REbuild means reserving a front row seat to explore the future of construction and choose which role to play in tomorrow’s construction market. At REbuild maps and solutions clearly emerge to manage the epochal change that the sector is facing, through stories, tools and protagonists,” said Alessandra Albarelli, Director of Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, which is already looking ahead and thinking about the next edition in 2024, the tenth, where many of the seeds and suggestions that emerged in this 2023 will have begun to show their first results.
Photo credit: Jacopo Salvi
