Carole Ferry, edited by Thibaud Le Meneec 6:38 am, September 08, 2021
Renovation of housing, energy performance… Many building sectors are going green before the last quarter of 2021, according to the latest figures from Capeb, a trade union.
Pre-crisis levels have been partly recovered, or even exceeded.
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"When the building works, everything goes": the adage is well known and if we look at the figures which have just been published on Tuesday, there is reason to be optimistic in this re-entry 2021. La Capeb, the employers' union of building crafts, announces exponential growth in the first half of the year, with + 37% compared to the same period last year, which represents a historic upturn.
"Renovation dynamics"
If this figure must be put into perspective, with virtually no activity in the first half of 2020, the momentum of the recovery is there.
Some sectors are exceeding their pre-crisis level: + 2.2% in housing renovation, + 3.3% in energy performance with order books full over 111 days, a record.
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"People are in the process of renovating and replacing their devices. I think they need that to try to start again", rejoices Jeanine Adam, heating engineer in Paris.
"It's pretty reassuring to know that we're going to last a few more years."
What impact of shortages?
The only obstacle to this dynamic remains the lack of raw materials, such as boilers, wood, concrete or even steel. A shortage that drives up prices from 20% to 80%. But here too, the situation tends to improve. "It would seem that the second semester, with the start of the school year, stabilizes this tension a little," analyzes Jean-Christophe Repon, president of Capeb. "We are patient and vigilant. For the moment, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, is careful that things do not go wrong." If the shortage stabilizes, the building is targeting 26,000 job creations over the year 2021.