Energy & Environment
Ahead of the debate and vote in the Plenary of the European Parliament taking place today and tomorrow, the European Builders Confederation EBC and its construction SMEs call for supporting...
Energy & Environment
For two days, on 7 and 8 March, the French capital gathered around 800 worldwide experts on buildings, construction and climate matters next to ministries of EU Member States and...
Social Affairs
According to the Transition pathway for construction of the European Commission, women still only make up around 10 % of the construction workers in Europe. This figure consists mainly in...
Social Affairs
Last week, on 29 February, EBC was invited by the UK Mission to the European Union to discuss Green Skills. Following a keynote presentation from the OECD, the event was...
Social Affairs
Advancing faster than any innovation in human history, digital technologies are transforming our society and our daily lives. For workers and employers in all sectors, digital technology offers increa...
Energy & Environment
Last week, on 21 February, EBC was invited to contribute to a high-level discussion on photovoltaic buildings in the EU strategies, as part of the EU Solar Buildings Strategy Day...
Economy
Following the legislative proposal of the European Commission for a Late Payment Regulation last year, the European Parliament’s IMCO Committee was expected to vote on the draft Report and Compromis...
Standardisation
In an effort to facilitate greater involvement of SMEs in standardisation processes, our partner organisation Small Business Standards (SBS), the European association supporting SMEs in standardisatio...
Standardisation
On February 13th, the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market held a crucial vote on the revised Construction Products Regulation (CPR), marking a significant step forward in shaping th...
Digitalisation
EXPERT TALKS series is an initiative from the BUILD UP portal. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts from all around Europe and covering the field of energy efficiency in...
Energy & Environment
Back in 2016, the European Commission launched the European Building Stock Observatory (EU BSO), a web tool that tracks energy performance and decarbonisation-related buildings data for all EU countri...
Digitalisation
From 22 to 24 January, EBC travelled to Zurich for the mid-term Project review meeting of the Horizon Europe initiative HumanTech, which ambitions to develop human-centred technologies to make the...