The project

The construction sector has a direct impact on several of the indicators affecting climate change and energy use. This forces the industry to become more efficient and rely on the use of renewable sources to achieve the climate and energy saving targets set by European environmental policies. This gives off-site construction a unique opportunity to develop and contribute to sustainable building.

Industrialised construction significantly favours energy and water savings by using fewer materials for the manufacture of its products, by shortening construction times (with consequent savings in energy demand) and by prioritising the use of elements made of materials with higher and better recycling possibilities, which allows the application of circular economy principles throughout the production cycle of the assets.

BuildOffsiteEU aims to improve and expand the training offer in vocational education and training to meet the needs of the labour market in the construction industry, identifying key competences that need to be updated and/or reinforced in the field of industrialised construction in order for the sector to successfully face environmental challenges. Its results aim to cover different needs: to systematise the competences that workers need to improve their professional performance in the field of industrialised construction; to differentiate the different industrialised construction systems; to involve the different actors involved in the sector in the transition from traditional to industrialised construction; to identify “new competences” to facilitate the transition of the workforce between both modalities; to improve the image of the sector; and to promote construction as a catalyst for employability and labour attraction.