Industrial construction sector shrank in Turkey that has been stalled construction industry during the crisis, expects growth in 2012, with increasing industrial investment in 2011. In addition to the crisis, deferred foreign investments due to rising credit costs are expected to increase due to the volatility in the domestic market.
The industrial construction sector, which was adversely affected by the contraction in the construction sector with the global economic crisis, is quite hopeful of 2012 in line with the industrial investments that increased with the recovery in the economy in 2011. The resumption of many industrial investments suspended last year with the opening of works in the construction sector increased the targets in industrial structures in parallel with the prefabricated and structural steel sector. Another positive development in the sector is the fact that foreign investors who shelved their projects due to the recession in the crisis and the increase in credit costs put their investments back on the agenda in the second half of 2010. After the crisis of new investors to continue to invest in the orientation of their feasibility and Turkey, it reinforces the industrial structure of foreign study estimated that it will increase rapidly in the coming period.
Today, about 85 percent of industrial buildings are made with prefabrication technology. The market share of the prefabricated building sector varies between 7-8 percent. When we look at the regional distribution of prefabricated products, the Marmara Region has the largest share with a rate of 46 percent. This is followed by Central Anatolia with 26 percent and Aegean and Western Mediterranean regions with 20 percent. Building elements correspond to half of the production in the sector; infrastructure works and the production of landscaping elements share the other half equally. The biggest demand in prefabricated production is the private sector. The share of the public sector in the prefabricated market, which mostly focuses on infrastructure constructions, is around 25 percent. Considering the characteristics of the sector, the authorities stated that there was a large increase in private sector investments in 2011, but this improvement was not reflected in public investments.
Prefabricated buildings, which can be constructed in a short time, are widely used in industrial buildings thanks to their advantages such as shortening the time for commissioning of the project, controlled concrete quality and high strength. In addition, thanks to the use of domestic inputs in the prefabricated sector, which is cheaper than other materials, exports in the recent period is drawing attention with project-based work. Some companies in the sector, which mainly perform product-based exports, have been producing in project-based production facilities in Middle East countries and Turkish republics in recent years. With the crisis, the number of companies opened abroad increases. In addition to the Dubai metro, which was commissioned by Yapı Merkezi in September 2009, all station buildings, hangars and service structures located on the 554 km Sirth-Benghazi high-speed train line in Libya by Afa Prefabrik are prefabricated.
Industrial investments in 2009 caused 41 percent decrease in prefabricated superstructure elements, 40 percent decrease in infrastructure elements and 16 percent decrease in reinforced concrete elements. Looking at the nine-month data of the sector in 2010, it is seen that the prefabricated concrete sector has started to compensate the decline experienced in 2009, especially in the production of superstructure elements. In the first nine months of 2010 production of superstructure elements increased by 47 percent compared to the same period of 2009. While there was no increase in the production of infrastructure elements, the production of peripheral elements increased by only 1 percent. Concrete pole production decreased by 28 percent. According to the nine-month data of 2010, total prefabricated concrete production increased by 17 percent.
