Circular Economy

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…

The growth of the geographical information in the construction industry

April 2nd, 2020

Circular Economy, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Synergies

The EO4GEO project -the Earth Observation/Geoinformation sector Blueprint project- team interviews to José Antonio Viejo, Chief VET & Employment Officer at Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, on how EO4GEO and…

The European Construction Industry Federation evaluates the negative impact of Coronavirus on the construction industry

March 25th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Health and Safety

The European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), as a European sectoral organisation and an entity representing construction companies of all sizes, has asked the EU Commission to implement extraordinary measures aimed…

Italy signs an Agreement to address the Covid situation and mitigate the construction crisis

March 25th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Health and Safety

On 23rd March an agreement was signed between our Italian partner, ANCE, and the other Italian employers’ organisations, Feneal-Uil, Filca-Cisl and Fillea-Cgil, to address the situation of the coronavirus in…

The Spanish Government adopts extraordinary measures in the world of work to alleviate the effects of the Covid crisis

March 20th, 2020

Circular Economy, Coronavirus, Health and Safety

Government of Spain adopts extraordinary measures in the field of labour to alleviate the effects of the Covid-19 crisis. Among the measures approved last Tuesday within the Spanish Royal Decree-Law…

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