FIEC explains building costs drivers at European Parliament hearing on Housing
On 20 May, the Chair of FIEC Working Group "Housing", Joël Schons, intervened in a public hearing organised by the Special Committee on Housing (HOUS) of the European Parliament on the “EU construction sector dynamics: Sustainability, innovation and challenges for the future of Housing”.
During this hearing, Schons pointed out some of the many building costs drivers that prevent the supply of more affordable housing units and provided concrete examples of digitalisation and innovation, which help increasing the productivity of the construction industry.
Indeed, the housing crisis is also a supply crisis: We do not build enough!
Schons insisted that the Building Information Model (BIM) should be used and recognised at all levels (including by relevant administrations), and that permitting procedures should be streamlined via digital building permits.
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