From 5 billion euros per month, mainly linked to the Superbonus, to 60 million. That's the leap backward in real estate-related tax incentives according to estimates by Federcostruzioni, which has recorded a drop in investment in the order of 7.4 percent in 2024, exceeding a quarter for extraordinary maintenance and residential renovation.  

But how is the market shaping up today? “The Superbonus season in Italy has created anomalies: today the sector is entering a phase of stagnation and we need to find the keys to restart, regardless of a framework of incentives that is far from being defined at the legislative level,” this is the analysis of Niccolò Aste, professor at the Politecnico di Milano and author of several publications about sustainable architecture and the renovation of the built environment. “Even though incentives have been partly abolished and partly scaled back, the EU framework moves in the direction of massive efficiency upgrading of the building stock, with the Renovation Wave, an EU strategy that promotes the energy upgrading of existing buildings, with the aim of improving the energy-environmental performance of the building sector,” Aste further recalls.   

It is against this backdrop that Miba and Politecnico di Milano have signed a partnership and have created an Observatory that analyzes scenarios and trends, with the aim of focusing on key development issues and helping industry players make the most of their skills and ability to innovate. “Miba is a busy crossroads of the construction industry,” the professor recalls. “The Politecnico is involved in research, development and technology transfer, among other things, but there is a risk that the amount of work produced remains largely unknown to the general public. Collaboration with trade shows, on the other hand, allows for the spread of knowledge among market players,” he adds. “Miba can count on information, trends, analysis and scientific contributions from our facilities, so we can positively contaminate each other.”