Mihai Barcanescu, Policy Manager, EFCA, writes that the European Commission’s new 2025 Work Programme unveils ambitious policy and legislative plans, promising significant changes and opportunities for the consulting engineering sector, from cutting red tape to tackling climate change and the digital revolution.   ‘Moving forward together: A bolder, simpler, faster Union’ is the motto under...Read More

– A new US administration: What now for Europe’s competitiveness   With the new US administration’s agenda being rolled out, Sue Arundale, Director General of the European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA), examines what impact this might have on Europe’s agenda over the next four years.   Following the changes in the US administration in...Read More

In EFCA’s last article, we gave an initial analysis of the EU elections and reflected on what the impact of the hard-right leaning grouping of parties in the European Parliament might mean for legislation aimed at improving sustainability in the built environment. Since then, the new European Parliament started its term and took a summer...Read More

Elections, elections, elections … Have you had enough yet? How many times have we heard this year that, across the world, there are more national and other elections in 2024 than ever before? Do these elections really matter? How do they impact the consulting engineering sector? The European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA) thinks...Read More

Earlier this year at a time when a plethora of requests were being published for an initiative to solve the imminent water emergency, the European Commission abandoned the Water Resilience Initiative. EFCA was only one of the Federations that was dismayed by this move, which was purely political. Sensitive to the timing in the run...Read More

A shortage of skilled staff, declining fees and the persistent need for salary increases – these are just the headlines from EFCA’s latest barometer, The State of the European Consulting Engineering Sector. Add in other factors such as geopolitical tension, energy transformation, surging inflation and rapidly-rising interest rates, and you have a recipe for uncertainty...Read More

In the latest issue of Building Services Engineering Franziska Mohr, Policy and Communication Adviser, European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Association (EFCA), says engineers must completely rethink the technical profile of physical structures to minimise their ecological impact. Furthermore, she believes that consulting engineers have the knowledge and expertise to adapt to climate change, reinforce resilience,...Read More

Like many industries, the consulting engineering sector is currently experiencing a shortage of skilled workers, with women being significantly under-represented in this highly-skilled profession. Against this backdrop, the gender gap is both a cause for concern and an opportunity, says Inés Ferguson, President, European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA),in the latest issue of Building...Read More