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“We have not retreated, we are taking impulse”, signals Juanjo Torres, president of Aseamac

The construction, key sector to go out of the crisis

David Muñoz04/03/2013

With a fall of more than 80% in the public investment for infrastructures from the year 2007 and with the stop that has followed the real-estate market in these last years, the sector of the construction is seeing in a situation limit. To analyse the past, present and future of this industry and his influence on the market for hire, the day on machinery of construction organised by Aseamac had like presentation the interventions of the presidents of the National Confederation of the Construction (CNC), Juan Lazcano, and of the Spanish Association of Rentals of Machinery for the Construction and Industry without Operator (Aseamac), Juanjo Torres.

In front of all those that pretend denostar the sector of the construction, Juan Lazcano, president of the CNC, signals that it is necessary oponer his nature of professional “and innovative industry”, able to endow to this country of the most modern infrastructures and of houses that do more confortable ours day in day out. Besides, it is a sector that has dinamizado clearly our economy during the last chamber of century since, as it remembered Juan Lazcano, by each million of euros invested in infrastructures create 18 places of work and revierten 570.000 euros to the arks of the State.

Of left to right: Juan Lazcano, president of the CNC, and Juanjo Torres, president of Aseamac.

The irruption of the crisis and his special virulence in the sector of the construction is comporting a strong destruction of business and professional mass. According to the data handled by the CNC, of January of 2008 to January of 2012 disappeared near of 160.000 companies related with the construction (a fourth part of the existent before the crisis). To this it is necessary to add a descent of 66% in the membership in the Social hygiene of workers of the construction between January of 2007 and January of 2013, and of 30% in the diet of autonomous.

This brusque fall has his origin so much in the crisis that suffers the real-estate sector, with a stock of houses to the that still is costing a lot give exit, as in the spectacular descent that has produced in public investment for infrastructures, that enciphers in 82% from the year 2007.

From the CNC, as it manifested his president, is not against of the cut in the public cost to adjust the accounts of the State, but yes requests that this cut centre in costs no productive, and no in investments that are indispensable for the good course of our economy. In this sense stood out the regrettable situation that is giving , for example, in matter of conservation of roads where the State carries from the year 2010 without investing an alone euro in reinforcement of firm, causing with this that the deficit in the state of these roads rise already to near of 5.500 million euros (data extracted of a study of the AEC).

From the CNC aim a series of proposals to reactivate the sector of the construction that would go through to boost even more the public financials-private, by the defence of the payment by use, by a selection of investments in key appearances like the transport, the water or the power (always under criteria of productivity), by the approval of measures tributarias that have impact on the stock of houses or by a greater commitment of the Government in the rehabilitation and, more specifically, by all the related with the energetic efficiency.

Juan Lazcano, president of the CNC.

According to Juan Lazcano can not keep a situation like the current, where the investment in public work on the GDP is of 0,8% when it does hardly three years was of 3,8%. From the CNC requests an elder encourage investor by part of the public servicys that allow to elevate this percentage to near levels to the ones of countries with infrastructures already mature (1,5%).

Lazcano Added that in front of the demonización that suffers in Spain the construction, in Europe follows seeing to this industry like a key element to win in competitiveness, able to generate 10% of the continental GDP and 20 million places of direct works. In fact from the EU aims that it is necessary to follow incidiendo in key matters like the renewal of buildings, the energetic efficiency, the transports, the fight against the morosidad, the reduction of administrative fetters and the learning.

As it concluded Juan Lazcano, if there is a competitive sector that is the construction, that has still a big future by in front and that it has to place in front two ideas to the negative messages that are going out from Government: ‘it is not all done' (in matter of transports of commodities, for example, there is a lot for doing) and ‘of the crisis can not go out without taking into account to the construction, a key sector for the recovery of the employment'.

Rent of machinery

Juanjo Torres, president of Aseamac and director manager of TST Services, went the attendant to do the introduction of the paper of the companies alquiladoras inside the sector of the construction. According to him same recognised, come of a period characterised by a very high demand of construction, of “a big party” where all sold and rented, generating like this an enormous number of agents for hire and a park of infinite “machinery”, that to day of today, follow without being able to adjust to the current demand.

The rent of machinery characterises besides for being still very atomizado, for being disgregado in several CNAE's (what hampers his control), for subjecting to a war of prices very hard, for assisting in a lot of cases to odd “competitions” and even irregular “” and for showing still some immaturity in matter of processes of internationalisation, recognised.

Juanjo Torres, president of Aseamac.

Of face to the future, as it added Juanjo Torres, the uncertainty that follows wrapping the market paralyses to a lot of rentals, that do not know if take the senda of the investment or of the desinvestment. The road of the internationalisation does not seem easy, by the high cost that supposes for a company alquiladora open out of his country, move the machinery, etc. In this sense, a possible solution as it is the one to join companies to undertake this exit to the outside, seems unfeasible in our country by the reticencias that creates between the competitors.

Did not want to sack the president of Aseamac without before command a message of optimism in spite of the hard situation that crosses the sector: “we have not retreated, we are taking impulse”, concluded.