Bogomil Manchev, executive director of Risk Engineering: Completing large-scale infrastructure projects will bring good results.

The energy, construction and investment sectors are among of those, which have been most severely hit by the global financial and economic downturn. Between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs are expected to be lost.
As a whole, there aren’t many well-developed industries in Bulgaria. Respectively, there are no economic resources to redirect the unemployed people towards other sectors as many of them lack sufficient qualification. Unfortunately, there could hardly be done anything.
We would get positive results provided that the state begins to develop some infrastructure projects, which would use labor force and will involve mechanization.
There are investors who do their best and put great efforts into finishing their projects. The relieves provided by the state are not sufficient. The construction and investment processes are accompanied by a number of setbacks – not only until the receipts of construction permits, but until the provision of access to engineering infrastructure as well.
In addition, a problem concerning public-private projects is the lack of adequate relations between the state and municipal institutions.

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