NEWS
CEN and CENELEC have published the revised CEN-CENELEC Guide 36,‘Guidance on the rules for the drafting and presentation of candidate performance harmonized standards in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 Construction Products Regulation CPR-2024’, following its approval by the CEN and CENELEC Technical Boards.
The European Commission, through the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), is funding experts to join the TRUST project. It is a strategic initiative which primary objective is to provide, for road restraint systems, a technical contribution in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 laying down harmonized rules for the marketing of construction products and repealing Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 and CPR Acquis.
European legislation such as the EU Green Deal, the revised Construction Products Regulation (CPR-2024), and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD-2024) emphasize the importance of assessing the environmental performance of construction products with a life-cycle perspective.
Four new standards supporting the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) 2011/305 have recently been published, strengthening the regulatory framework for residential fuel-burning appliances. Developed by CEN technical committees, the standards were cited in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 9 February 2026, meaning they can now be used to demonstrate compliance with the CPR.
Launch of the CEN Workshop 'AMBIANCE - Advanced Manufacturing of Biobased products for urban outdoor applications through iNnovative CharactErisation, digital technologies, and circular approach'
The aim of this proposed Workshop is to provide a standardised set of consistent guidelines for handling coordinate systems, official fixpoints, surveying points and markers used in construction projects and on site for BIM construction projects.
This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) provides orientation for the management of building retrofitting projects, based on enhanced shallow geothermal technologies, in form of guidelines for the classification of an integrated design team and the identification of the primary roles of actors among the whole project life-cycle.
The construction sector is one of the main drivers of EU’s economy. Despite major efforts in harmonising and standardization of qualification and training procedures across the EU, the competence level of sustainability experts and the underlying training and education contents varies significantly between the Member States.
The scope of the Workshop is to develop specific guidelines that aid to the viable and cost effective use of advanced EGS by introducing a novel concept on building retrofitting based on geothermal energy and EGS, through the integration and validation of a suite of technologies, tools and methods facilitating their easy application and massive deployment.
The scope of the Workshop is to specify a common reference framework and a methodology that allow to evaluate, score and report the Level of Competence of professionals and workers with regards to specific Areas of Expertise related to energy efficiency and sustainability at building and urban scale (TRAIN4SUSTAIN Competence Quality Standard).