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Health & Safety: EBC becomes an official partner of new EU-OSHA campaign Healthy Workplaces campaign Social Affairs

Health & Safety: EBC becomes an official partner of new EU-OSHA campaign Healthy Workplaces campaign

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...

February 28, 2024 Read more
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Renewables: EBC intervenes in EU Solar Buildings Strategy Day Energy & Environment

Renewables: EBC intervenes in EU Solar Buildings Strategy Day

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...

February 26, 2024 Read more
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Late Payment: EBC regrets the postponement of the vote in IMCO committee Economy

Late Payment: EBC regrets the postponement of the vote in IMCO committee

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...

February 23, 2024 Read more
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Standardisation: SBS advocates for a more inclusive national and international standardisation Standardisation

Standardisation: SBS advocates for a more inclusive national and international 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...

February 19, 2024 Read more
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Construction Products Regulation: European Parliament IMCO committee votes on provisional agreement Standardisation

Construction Products Regulation: European Parliament IMCO committee votes on provisional agreement

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...

February 14, 2024 Read more
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Construction 4.0: EBC in BUILD UP Expert Talks explains the revolution of the building sector Digitalisation & Innovation

Construction 4.0: EBC in BUILD UP Expert Talks explains the revolution of the building sector

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...

February 13, 2024 Read more
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Data & Statistics: The European Commission announces a new and improved EU Building Stock Observatory Energy & Environment

Data & Statistics: The European Commission announces a new and improved EU Building Stock Observatory

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...

February 12, 2024 Read more
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Robotisation: Mid-term review meeting in Zurich for HumanTech project on human-robot collaboration in construction Digitalisation & Innovation

Robotisation: Mid-term review meeting in Zurich for HumanTech project on human-robot collaboration in construction

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...

February 1, 2024 Read more
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Red tape: EBC attends European Parliament SME Intergroup breakfast on reducing reporting requirements by 25% Energy & Environment

Red tape: EBC attends European Parliament SME Intergroup breakfast on reducing reporting requirements by 25%

On 23 January, the Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the European Parliament held its first breakfast of 2024, dedicated to the issue of "Reducing reporting requirements by...

January 30, 2024 Read more
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Social affairs: EBC in the European Labour Authority yearly outreach meeting with social partners Social Affairs

Social affairs: EBC in the European Labour Authority yearly outreach meeting with social partners

Last week, on 16 January, the European Labour Authority (ELA) held its annual outreach event for social partners in Brussels, to which EBC was invited next to several other SME...

January 25, 2024 Read more
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Posting of workers: EBC discusses communication channels on posting at the European Labour Authority Social Affairs

Posting of workers: EBC discusses communication channels on posting at the European Labour Authority

In the context of the INFO-POW project on national communication streams on posting for companies and workers, the European Labour Authority (ELA) hosted the final INFO-POW conference and upscaling ev...

January 24, 2024 Read more
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Energy transition: EBC in new European Net Zero Alliance -ENZA video Energy & Environment

Energy transition: EBC in new European Net Zero Alliance -ENZA video

EBC Secretary General Fernando Sigchos Jiménez presented the interests of construction SMEs and crafts in last European Net Zero Alliance (ENZA) video. For EBC, being technology neutral is crucial to...

January 24, 2024 Read more