Concrete perspectives April 2016
Construction sector
- On 19 April 2016, the Passive House Institute put online its database for Certified Passive House Components. http://database.passivehouse.com/en/components/
- On 14 April 2016, the High Level Tripartite Strategic Forum on construction met in Brussels. The forum assessed the implementation of the Construction 2020 Action Plan and agreed on some comments to send to the Ministerial Conference on Construction organised by the Slovakian Presidency (Bratislava 15-16 September 2016).
For more information: European Council of Civil Engineers
Workshop on European Voluntary Certification Scheme
Under the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), the European Commission has to develop a European Voluntary Certification Scheme (VCS) for the energy performance of non-residential buildings, in addition to the already existing mandatory national energy performance certificates.
The second and final workshop with stakeholders took place on 21 April in Paris (first workshop took place in January in Brussels).
For the full article, please contact zk@bibm.eu.
Live from the European Union
- According to the Spring 2016 Economic Forecast, economic growth in Europe is expected to remain modest.
- The European Parliament’s committee on Industry, Research and Energy decided to prepare an own-initiative report in reaction to the earlier issues Communication on EU Heating and Cooling Strategy. The appointed Rapporter, Adam Gierek (S&D, Poland) is working together with sveral Shadow Rapporteurs from different political groups.
The Commission’s Communication sets out a Strategy on heating and cooling based on two main pillars:
1. Buildings and automation and 2. Industry.
URBAN Intergroup: How Europe’s town and cities can address current refugee crises
On 6th April the URBAN Intergroup of the European Parliament held a conference on How Europe’s town and cities can address current refugee crises. The conference took place at the European Investment Bank (EIB) who was the partner of the conference.
MEP Olbrycht, President of the URBAN Intergroup said in its welcome speech that the issue is very important and it is indispensable to integrate migrants in cities. The urban policy has a key role in this process since the structure, the composition and the function of cities has to change for example in order to avoid ghettos, to offer proper accommodation and living to migrants.
For the full article, please contact zk@bibm.eu.
News in brief
Agenda
MAY
3 May 2016
BIBM Communication Commission
Cologne, Germany
4 May 2016
CEN/TC 104/TG 20
Paris, France
10 May 2016
Fire Safe Europe Task Force
Lund, Sweden
10-11 May 2016
CEN/TC 104/SC 1
London, UK
11-12 May 2016
CEN/TC 104
London, UK
20 May 2016
Concrete Initiative
Brussels, Belgium
24 May 2016
CPE TG CPR implementation
Brussels, Belgium
26-29 May 2016
IPHA Congress
Budapest, Hungary
30 May 2016
ECP Board and GA
Brussels, Belgium
JUNE
6-7 June 2016
BIBM General Assembly
Birmingham, UK
8 June 2016
CPE General Assembly
Brussels, Belgium
10 June 2016
C2CA demonstration
Hoorn, The Netherlands
15 June 2016
NEPSI Council meeting
Brussels, Belgium
16 June 2016
NEPSI 10th anniversary conference
Brussels, Belgium
23 June 2016
CPE – CPR working group
Brussels, Belgium
24 June
BIM for SMEs
Brussels, Belgium
JULY
5 July 2016
EMA meeting
Brussels, Belgium
6 July 2016
CPE – Sustainability working group
Brussels, Belgium
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List of Acronyms:
AhG – Ad-hoc Group
CPE – Construction Product Europe
DG GROW – Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
ECP – European Concrete Platform
EMA – European Masonry Alliance
IPHA – International Pre-stressed Hollowcore Association
TF – Task Force