DEVELOPING A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ANALYSING AND EVALUATING FACTORS THAT ENSURE THE BALANCED DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines the factors ensuring the balanced development of Ukraine’s construction industry and substantiates the need for their comprehensive assessment. It is established that the current functioning of the industry combines significant reconstruction potential with the financial instability of enterprises, shortages of investment and human resources, depreciation of fixed assets, technological disparities, regional imbalances, and security threats. Balanced development is considered a process of coordinated quantitative and qualitative changes encompassing not only production and financial performance but also social, technological, environmental, institutional, and spatial dimensions.

Based on the SWOT analysis, the strengths and weaknesses of the construction industry, as well as the opportunities and threats affecting its development, are systematised. A system of indicators is developed across seven groups of factors: economic, investment and financial, social and human resources, innovation and technological, environmental, institutional and regulatory, and security and spatial. The proposed framework divides the indicators into stimulators and destimulators and combines statistical and expert data, the normalisation of initial values, and the determination of individual indicator weights.

A methodological approach involving the calculation of partial indices, an integrated assessment of the development level, and the determination of a coefficient reflecting the balance among its components is developed. A distinctive feature of the approach is its consideration of structural imbalances, which prevents strong performance in certain dimensions from compensating for critical weaknesses in others. The proposed methodological tools make it possible to identify the factors that most significantly constrain the industry’s development, compare results over time and across regions, and establish priorities for managerial intervention. The findings can be used by public authorities, local governments, and construction enterprises when developing reconstruction programmes and strategies to strengthen the resilience of Ukraine’s construction industry.