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Discover the programme of the NEBC conference 'Common Ground: Making the Renovation Wave a Cultural Project’
15.04.2021
The New European Bauhaus Collective (NEBC) invites you to participate in its online conference 'Common Ground: Making the Renovation Wave a Cultural Project’ on 29 April 2021 from 10 am to 4pm CET. Launched by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the occasion of...
The ACE publishes the seventh edition of the Sector Study on the state of the architectural profession in Europe
09.04.2021
The Sector Study is a biennial survey commissioned by the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, that collects and analyses statistical, sociological and economic data on European architects, the architectural market and architectura...
Germany: The "HOAI" - Official fee scale for services by architects and engineers updated (BAK)
07.04.2021
The official scale of fees for services by architects and engineers, Honorarordnung für Architekten und Ingenieure – HOAI, has stipulated mandatory upper and lower limits for the remuneration of architects and engineers. The European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled in July 2019 (C-377/17) that obligat...
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Communication of the EU Commission: An SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe
27.01.2021The ACE welcomes the initiative of the EU Commission to address the challenges that SMEs face and invites it to pay special attention to the specificities of the liberal professions, which are principally made up of micro-enterprises. Indeed, the vast majority of architectural offices in the EU...
Public Procurement & Architecture Design Contest Workgroup: Results of the ACE Public Procurement survey
29.10.2020The survey ran for over a year and elicited responses from 26 countries (out of 31). At the time of writing, responses were outstanding from EL, LUX, SK, UK and SRB;General impact – was mixed. Many said the new Directive had made no change or had had no positive impact. However, there were...
Summary of the ACE positions developed by the Environment Sutainable Architecture Workgroup since 2013
14.08.2020Most people in the EU spend approximately 90% of their time in buildings and 100% in the built environment. Buildings shape social and cultural constructs and affect the health, well-being and productivity of people. Buildings also account for over 40% of EU carbon emissions, while half of all raw...
