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EBC welcomes the new Director of Small Business Standards

EBC is glad to welcome Maitane Olabarria Uzquiano as the new Director of Small Business Standards (SBS), the voice of European SMEs in standardisation. SBS is the European association created...

DigiPLACE Survey: assessing the digital maturity of construction SMEs and craftsmen

Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, the project “DigiPLACE – the Digital Platform framework for Construction in Europe” aims at assessing the feasibility of a European digital platform that...

Housing: EBC and the European Housing Forum advocate for re-establishment of the URBAN Intergroup in the European Parliament

Driving times and Tachographs: Political agreement recognizes construction specificities

Yesterday the TRAN Committee of the European Parliament approved the trilogue agreement on the “Driving times” and “Tachograph” Regulations reached before Christmas. The European construction ...

European Commission launches ‘fair minimum wage’ initiative

On 14 January, the European Commission (EC) presented a Communication on building a Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions, setting out how social policy will help deliver on the challenges...

Final NETconVET meeting in Madrid

After two and a half years of work, the NETconVET consortium met for the last time in the headquarters of the Fundación Laboral de la Construcción in Madrid on 15th...

EBC welcomes the European Green Deal communication

On 11 December the European Commission published its Communication on the European Green Deal, which displays an initial roadmap of the key policies and measures needed to implement both the...

SME Assembly 2024: EBC attends edition dedicated to how SMEs shape Europe’s future in Budapest

Preventing social dumping and unfair competition in Europe’s construction sector EBC calls for investigating the need to limit subcontracting chains

Research & Innovation: a Public-Private Partnership on a Sustainable Built Environment

To address the fragmented value chain and the segmentation of issues are among the major challenges to improve the built environment sector, which so far faces uncoordinated innovation and reduced...

CONDAP project: three learning units identified for construction mentors

Launched in October 2018, the EU co-funded project CONDAP - Digital Skills for Workplace Mentors in Construction Sector Apprenticeships recently celebrated its first year, and this is a good opportuni...

The very first BIM4Ren newsletter is out!

Running from 2018 to 2022, the EU-funded project “BIM4REN – BIM based tools and technologies towards a fast and efficient Renovation of residential buildings” aims at introducing state-of-the...