Tag: construction management

This week marks the end of the two-month window the European Commission gave member states, Spain included, to complete transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/1275 on the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD), after opening infringement proceedings in July against all 27 countries for missing the original 29 May deadline. This is no routine paperwork: it is the clearest signal yet that Brussels intends to accelerate, with firm dates and penalties attached, the decarbonisation of Europe’s building stock ahead of 2050.

For decades, “prefab” sounded like an emergency fix or a construction-site cabin. That’s changing fast, and not because of fashion: two recent stories confirm it with hard numbers, one from the world’s largest housing market and one less than 300 kilometers from our offices.