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The Commission adopted new rules on eForms, which are digital procurement notices, for clearer and more accessible online information on public procurement and contracts. This will make life easier for companies looking for business opportunities and make public spending more transparent for citizens. Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, responsible for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, said: “This is a new...

One of the most effective ways of preventing fires in buildings is to reduce the level of oxygen in the air. The world’s first International Standard for oxygen reduction systems has just been published. Prevention is always better than cure, and there are few better examples than with fires. If fires can only survive when...

FIDIC announces the first Diversity and Inclusivity Survey. Set up last year, the mission of the FIDIC Diversity and Inclusivity Task Force is to actively support representation and inclusion from more diverse groups as influencers in the Consulting Engineering sector. Moreover, its mission is to support members by illustrating why diversity and inclusion matters to business,...

The call for nominations for the 2019 FIDIC YP Awards is open. The 2019 FIDIC YP Award will recognise, reward and promote the remarkable achievements of YPs to the consultancy engineering industry worldwide and encourage further participation of YPs in FIDIC. The awards are expected to provide the following benefits: YPs become more active and...

The new issue of The Voice of EFCA (July 2019) has been published. The Issue focuses on Building Information Modelling (BIM), a digital information management approach. You can see The Voice of EFCA here.

Registration is now open for the ACE-UIA International Conference on Design Competitions, taking place on 25 October 2019 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Registration and more information on the UIA website: ACE-UIA International Conference on Design Competitions, 25 October 2019 – Paris The conference will bring together architects, urban planners, the public sector and...

JRC (Joint Research Centre of European Commission) launches a new report “The future of road transport – Implications of automated, connected, low-carbon and shared mobility”. The report shows how massive changes on the horizon such as automation, connectivity, decarbonisation and sharing, represent an opportunity to move towards a transport system that is more efficient, safer,...

Construction stakeholders believe that the Construction 2020 initiative should be reinforced in order to fully achieve its ambitions, aimed at supporting the construction sector’s adaptation to key emerging challenges and to promote the sustainable competitiveness of the sector. To this end, major European construction representatives have united, to stress their commitment to the extension of the...

The Greek construction sector is showing some signs of relative improvement in recent years, after being severely hit by the economic crisis. However, the sector faces still a long way before fully recovering. The number of enterprises operating in the broad construction sector is 17.0% lower than in 2010 and the production in the construction...

EFCA sets its sights on the future: 2019 Future Trends Booklet launched at Dublin Conference. Download this very interesting report here.