A new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience. In this report from the World Bank and World Resources Institute, both organizations are calling for green infrastructure, such as mangroves and wetlands, to play a bigger role in traditional infrastructure planning. Integrating nature into...
The report provides information about the general concept of the Eurocodes implementation in a regulatory system, and discusses case studies of EU Member States that have successfully implemented the Eurocodes. The report also highlights the experience of designers on using the Eurocodes by presenting simple application examples. See more and download the report here.
International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has secured a major agreement with the World Bank that will see the international funding organisation adopt the use of six FIDIC standard contracts for the next five years. Under the terms of the agreement, FIDIC has granted the World Bank a non-exclusive licence to refer to the six...
FIDIC has launched a new Contract Users’ Newsletter. The newsletter enables FIDIC to update and keep in touch with those who use the highly regarded suite of contracts and other legal and contractual documentation. The users of FIDIC contracts – clients, contractors and consultants – are an important group of stakeholders for FIDIC. Future editions...
A stock-taking of available resources to assist the development of climate resilient infrastructure. See more and download the Report.
FIDIC published a second issue of Infrastructure Intelligence International. The first issue was published to coincide with the FIDIC 2018 International Infrastructure Conference in Berlin and this issue highlights some of the debates that took place at the FIDIC Berlin conference and takes a look at key issues like sustainable cities, diversity, skills shortages, profitability, young...
Linking public procurement with the use of standards. The ‘Guide for referencing standards in public procurement in Europe’ will be used at national level in the next months to generate feedback for its further improvement and validation in view of its future possible endorsement as a formal CEN Guide. Download the Guide
The new study “EU-funded large-scale infrastructure: deficient project preparation and procurement processes?”, prepared by European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control, suggest a series of problematic issues, including capacity constraints, exclusive attention to price to the detriment of quality and artificial splitting of project budgets to allow to bypass open tenders. The study aimed to develop...
The 21th issue of The Voice of EFCA (December 2018) has been published. The Issue focuses on the need to raise the importance of lifecycle cost over simple cost of construction which has been recognised in the 2014 European Public Procurement Directive. You can see the 21th issue of The Voice of EFCA here.
This recently published report takes a deep dive into the macroeconomic situation impacting the construction market and forecasts its growth across the major markets. It also analyzes the key financial indicators of the leading players within the sector: market position and performance in terms of revenue, market capitalization, internationalization, diversification, profitability, indebtedness, and other financial...
