“This is brewing hardship,” says Christof Burger, building contractor and Chamber of Crafts Vice-President, on the situation on the building site in the region – an interview.
Many places in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district are still busy building – even now in winter, cranes and craftsmen can be seen in action around Freiburg and in the city. But whether it will stay that way is uncertain. The local building trade is worried about the future, because experience has shown that economic fluctuations arrive there with a delay.
BZ: How hard is the pandemic hitting the construction industry in and around the city?
Burger: You can’t compare the construction industry with the situation, for example, at hairdressing salons or in large parts of the retail sector, where shops have been completely closed from now on due to the recent corona lockdown. Long-term projects are being processed in the construction industry. Some projects run for a year. Almost all of them run longer than three …
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