The fifth “Wooden Houses and Buildings Report” produced by Assolegno shows a growing trend.
A production that grows by 2.3 percent, reaching 1.35 billion euros, exports that reach 60 million euros and increase by 20 percent compared to 2018. Almost 3,300 housing units built, 2.2 percent more than the previous year.
The photograph of the 2019 data that emerges from the fifth “Report on Houses and Wooden Buildings” created by Assolegno – the FederlegnoArredo association that represents primary processing industries and wood builders – tells of an Italy that is in a certain sense increasingly green and attentive to environmental sustainability, in which the desire to invest in wooden buildings is growing.
Positive numbers that highlight how in the last five years growth has followed a constant trend – despite the fact that 2020, for obvious reasons, represents a world of its own -, especially in certain areas of the country. Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna are in fact the areas most interested in building in wood, but this way of understanding construction is also gaining ground in various areas of the center (primarily Tuscany, Lazio and Marche) and the south (Sicily and Puglia).
“The timber construction sector has grown in terms of the market, but has also been able to establish a close relationship with architects, proving to be a fundamental technical support”, said Angelo Luigi Marchetti, president of Assolegno.
The forecasts for 2021 speak of a growth that, on 2020, could reach 6.5 percent of the value of production, with investments that would undergo an increase of over 8 percent.
For a more detailed analysis of the report, we refer you to the next issues of Xylon.
