BauProfi*

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About the project
BauProfi is a questionnaire-based research, conducted for several clients and on several issues.
It gives the opportunity to each market player to reduce significantly the costs for necessary market research
conduct, to receive in short terms quick and inexpensive information on vide spectrum of questions, connected
with professional audience of construction market players.
The peculiarity of the project is its periodicity, which gives the opportunity to track the market changes
dynamics.
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About the project
BauProfi is a good basis for the construction materials manufacturers and the trading organizations to discover
the following questions:
The attitude to the proposed products, brands;
Comparison with the competitors;
Testing of the new products proposition;
Defining of the Media preferences (where the professional consumers source the information about the materials, innovations, etc.);
Volume and the specific of the different materials purchase;
Peculiarities of the construction materials and suppliers choice decision making;
Brands and suppliers awareness;
Regional peculiarities, etc.
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Obligatory information section
Obligatory information section includes the following:
Company-employer of the respondent:
Specialization
Income
Annual construction volume
Number of employees
Region
About the respondent:
Position
His role in the purchase decision making
Experience
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Advantages of the participation
in the project
Like the majority of the syndicative researches, this type of research has the following
advantages:
The opportunity to receive the most “fresh” information about the private construction and re-construction market, and about its dynamics in short terms.
The expenses for the syndicative research is much lower than for the exclusive research conduct.
The client has the opportunity to order the number and the character of questions, included into the questionnaire. The right to the information, received within this questionnaire section, belongs to the client only.
The regular participation in the project gives the opportunity to follow the market situation development trend, to receive the information about the new trends in the consumer preferences, competitors’ activity, market volume, etc.
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Investigated products
The main list
of the construction
materials
under investigation
ceilings,
floors
dividing walls,
doors
drainback
systems
windows
roofing
and the related
materials
decoration
materials, ССС
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air-conditioning,
heating
isolation
materials
and
other

Methodology and sample
Data collection methodology
The main data collection method – face-to-face interview with the professional consumers.
The respondents are:
users (construction supervisors); heads of the supply departments of the big and medium construction companies; architects, project managers.
Sample size is 300 interviews. The sample is specific and random for the total Ukraine. During the survey it’s interviewed the representatives of the construction companies, architecture bureaus with the annual income of the company no less than 500 thousand UAH. It is possible the individual expansion of the sample by quantity and by structure of respondents (Joint-Stock companies, separately working teams, installators, special work teams).
Sample calculation is based on the database of the construction companies and architecture bureaus; the respondents are proportionally spread by the investigated cities.
The following cities are covered by the research: Kiev, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Odessa, Yalta, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Lvov, Khmelnitsky.
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Collected information
quality control
Field work quality control:
100% control of the questionnaires filling in;
Random control of the interview conduct and completeness – 100%;
Logical control 100%.
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2008 project schedule
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А
В
С
D
E
А – submission of questions and conclusion of agreements;
В – preparation to the field works;
С – data collection (field work);
D – preparation of the report;
Е – provision of the report.
15.04
19.04
12.05
30.05
31.05
Note: BauMarketing® has the right to change the terms of the project conduct for 1-2 days.

The form of the reports
The results of the research are provided to the Client in the following way (under the Clients request and the preliminary agreement):
database in SPSS / ОSА format;
standard report with the sample description;
one and two dimension tables in Excel format;
print report;
electronic report (Ms Word, Power Point presentation).
The ownership to the questions and the results (except for the obligatory information block) belongs to the Client.
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