Fabrizio Rastelli at the AsBEA-SP Seminar

On September 30, our Director of New Business, Fabrizio Rastelli, moderated the panel “Concrete, wood or steel: is there an ideal system?”, with Íria Doniak, president of ABCIC; Nicolaos Theodorakis, founder and CEO of Noah Tech; and José Augusto P. Cordeiro, VP of Steel Structures at ABCEM. The panel was part of the program on Industrialization, within the AsBEA-SP Seminar: “Novas formas de Construir. Um papel cada vez mais estratégico para o arquiteto” [New ways of building: an increasingly strategic role for the architect].

In his opening remarks, Fabrizio explained that the panel was designed to address not only industrialization but also the integration of the production chain, with the goal of creating better projects and buildings. “When we thought about this panel, we thought about bringing not only industrialization but also chain integration, so that we can create better projects and buildings, raising the question of what the ideal system is,” he said.

The provocation drew a direct response from Íria Doniak, for whom “there is no universally better industrialized solution; there is a solution suited to each project.” José Augusto P. Cordeiro highlighted the flexibility of steel and the importance of understanding the project’s demands from the outset, and Nicolaos Theodorakis presented Noatech’s work. In the debate led by Fabrizio, Íria noted that builders have been seeking prefabricated systems to cope with the labor shortage and recalled that housing has always been a challenge for the sector. Nicolaos and José Augusto pointed to tax reform as a factor that should boost industrialization.