The minister of the Cities of Brazil will visit Construmat in search of providers for one million houses

The minister of the Cities of Brazil, Aguinaldo Velloso, will chair the Brazilian business mission that will visit Construmat 2013 to present in Europe the second phase of the program Minha House, Minha Life' that has like aim finish with the favelas of the main cities of the country. Until 2014, this program foresees edificar two million houses with a budget of 3.332 million euros, of which one million cotizarán in the living room of Fira of Barcelona. The Brazilian delegation, of the highest level, will be composed by 30 employers of the construction of the giant sudamericano, between which find the presidents of the Bank do Brazil and of the Caixa Economic Federal, Aldemir Bendine and Jorge Inherits, respectively, that fund this program, and the national secretary of House, Inés Magalhaes.

Brazil will travel to Construmat Barcelona to cater of the materials and the necessary constructive processes to fulfil with the planned terms of the second phase of the program Minha House, Minha Life', by which a lot of Brazilians, with incomes very low, have attained to access to a worthy house from his set up in March of 2009 by initiative of the president Luis Ignacio Lula gives Silva and that follows the current president Dilma Rouseff.

In accordance with the Demographic Census of 2010, Brazil had a deficit of 5,8 million worthy houses, being Sao Paulo the state with greater number of favelas. The projections of the Brazilian Government estimate that it will be precise to build a total of 24 million houses until the year 2023 to be able to eradicate of definite way the existence of the infraviviendas in all the country. To face up to this challenge, Brazil needs to purchase all type of materials and construction solutions, revealing as a big opportunity of business for the companies of the construction no only of our country but of all Europe.

In this sense, Construmat Barcelona represents the big platform of entrance to the program Minha House, Minha Life', since the display units will have access in scoop to establish a series of meetings of work with the Brazilian delegation in the frame of the Forum Contract, pioneering initiative in the field ferial of the construction in which they will present 170 constructive projects, especially of emergent countries, with a potential investment of more than 30.000 million euros.

“The presence of the Brazilian delegation is the most palpable sample of the new stage of the living room, oriented to give real answers to the sector. The employers of the construction of Brazil know the experience accumulated in Spain and am convinced that they will be able to close a lot of operations with the sixth world-wide economy”, explains Pilar Navarro, director of Construmat. “The opportunities are in the emergent countries, the constructive projects are increasingly global and the sustainability no longer is a whim, but a need and an undoubted opportunity of business”, concludes.

According to data of the Commercial Office of Spain in Brazil, dependent of the Spanish Institute of External Trade (ICEX), the Spanish exports to this country in 2012 rose to 2.573 million euros, of which 303 millions corresponded to the industry of the construction. After the industrial technology and the chemical products, the materials of construction are the third more sold product by the Spanish companies to the Brazilian economy.

In front of the atony of the national market, the exports to Sudamérica present like one of the factors that can dinamizar the Spanish construction. The sales to the countries of Cono South have increased ten points in six years until representing, in 2012, 12,9% of the total of the Spanish exports of materials of the construction.