Circular Economy

More than thirty sectorial agents from Spain debate the barriers in the construction sector for its digital, sustainable and efficient transformation

December 3rd, 2020

Circular Economy, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Events

On November 26th, a virtual meeting was held within the framework of the European Construction Blueprint project, organized by Confederación Nacional de la Construcción (CNC) and Fundación Laboral de la…

H&S Blueprint project launches Health and Safety training adapted to the new needs of ‘green professionals’

October 15th, 2020

Circular Economy, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety, Results

After almost two years of tendering, Fundación Laboral de la Construcción closes the Health & Safety Blueprint initiative coordinated by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) of…

New Post-Coronavirus Recovery Plan for Europe

July 28th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety

European leaders met to draw up a Recovery Plan based on the use of the full potential of the European Union budget. On 17 and 21 July, representatives of the…

The European construction industry calls on governments to achieve a rapid and sustainable recovery

July 2nd, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency

The social stakeholders of construction industry in the European Union signed a document to encourage heads of state, governments and Member States, to implement the new instrument of post-coronavirus recovery…

The European Commission presents a dual response to enhance recovery and resilience during the Coronavirus crisis

May 30th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety

The European Commission is promoting a financing plan to accelerate Europe’s economic recovery through the creation of an extraordinary funding programme and a reinforced long-term European budget. With the aim…

Construction Blueprint launches an Interactive Map with over 120 European best practices

May 21st, 2020

Attractiveness, Circular Economy, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety, Synergies

The partners have identified innovative initiatives in eleven countries to which the consortium belongs, dealing with skill gaps and skills mismatches in the topics of Energy Efficiency, Digitalisation, Circular Economy…

Covid Recovery Fund: €320Bn requested for construction

April 30th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Synergies

The European Alliance Against Coronavirus (EAAC) is a new network emerged since the beginning of the Covid-19 to find solutions and share experiences in Europe, created by the European Cluster…

Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, CEOE and Fundación Telefónica launch a free ‘nanodegree’ for the digitalisation of the sector

April 24th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Digitalisation

It is an open free course consisting in 220 hours online training, that includes seven modules, with topics such as the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology, introduction to Big Data,…

German construction authorities should not be a bottleneck, in the words of ZDB’s president

April 22nd, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Health and Safety

“The construction industry remains one of the sectors that is providing particular support to the economy during the Coronavirus crisis. Many construction sites can still be worked on today. However,…

European response to the coronavirus crisis

April 6th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Health and Safety

The coronavirus outbreak is testing Europe in ways that would have been unthinkable only a few months ago. To cushion the impact on people’s livelihoods and economy, the European Commission…

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