Digitalisation & Innovation
On 14 September, in her State of the Union address to the European Parliament, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlined the Commission’s priorities for the coming period. Among...
Digitalisation & Innovation
This week, our Secretary General Fernando Sigchos Jiménez met with Mariano Sans, Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional de la Construcción CNC, J. Pablo Martínez Marques, EBC Board member...
Economy
After the summer break, EBC President Philip van Nieuwenhuizen and EBC Policy Officer Spyros Mathioudakis met Ms Katharina Knapton-Vierlich, Head of Unit for Public Procurement at the Directorate-Gene...
Standardisation
In April 2021, the European Commission published its proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The proposal identifies the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG)...
Energy & Environment
During the summer, the European Commission ran an open public consultation on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD provides the general framework for many waste streams,...
Economy
In the course of the summer, credit management company Intrum published its European Payment Report 2022, which gives on overview of the late payment landscape across Europe. EBC had the...
Digitalisation & Innovation
With the final month of the project approaching, BIM4Ren has in store an extensive calendar of interesting events for its diverse community of stakeholders. Have a look to the list...
Digitalisation & Innovation
The European construction industry faces three major challenges: improve its productivity, increase the safety and wellbeing of its workforce and make a shift towards a green, resource efficient indus...
Standardisation
Brussels, 13 July 2022- In response to the European Commission’s consultation, Small Business Standards (SBS) and the European Builders Confederation (EBC) publish today a position paper on the revi...
Energy & Environment
With the revision process of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) already under way since 2021, EBC has been supporting a fair and realistic revision of the EPBD that...
Standardisation
On 14 June, CEN/TC442, the Technical Committee (TC) working on the standardisation of Building Information Modelling (BIM), held its plenary meeting in Tromsø, Norway. The meeting was the first hybri...
Standardisation
Small Business Standards (SBS) held its annual event on 15 June, under the heading "SMEs setting the standard for Sustainable Products: Drivers and challenges". This year’s edition was dedicated to...