Global

• Rapid economic growth in emerging and developing countries
• Public policies focused on achieving the goals set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and by the United Nations SDGs, requiring investments in new infrastructure projects and the modernization of existing ones

Developing economies

(low-income)

• The need to expand the population's access to basic services: water, energy, mobility, housing, health
• Improving the adaptation and resilience to climate change and other socio-environmental stresses
• Improving local connectivity through physical and virtual infrastructure

Developing economies

(middle-income)

• Urban population growing rapidly
• Expanding middle class with rising incomes
• The need to ensure access to basic services for the new urban population / middle class
• The further need to bridge the infrastructure deficit in urban areas and improve regional connectivity, with a focus on resilient and low-carbon infrastructures

Advanced economies

• The need to renovate or replace infrastructure that is obsolete and no longer meeting the needs of the population
• Redesigning urban development models, correcting the distortions of the past that have led to congested cities, mainly due to private vehicles with their high resource consumption and high pollution