Energy Efficiency

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…

France leads European countries list with the largest number of green investment projects to boost post Covid-19 economic recovery

September 4th, 2020

Coronavirus, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety

According to the data from the Green Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Plan for Europe report, produced by EY and funded by the European Climate Foundation, the three countries with the…

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…

Improving the human capital basis of the European construction industry

June 5th, 2020

Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Trends

The European Construction Sector Observatory (ECSO) of the European Commission has published an Analytical Report in March 2020 that provides an important insight into workforce and skills in European construction industry.…

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…

New free online course on Occupational Risks and preventive measures to be adopted in working from home, available in Spanish

April 16th, 2020

Coronavirus, Digitalisation, Energy Efficiency, Health and Safety

Fundación Laboral opened its online platform at the end of March and has already received more than 26,500 registrations for one of its more than 40 free short-term courses, specializing…

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…

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