Build Europe

Build Europe supports the EU’s environmental objectives and ambitions, and welcomes the objective to turn Europe into the first carbon neutral continent by 2050. Build Europe is concerned, however, the continuous introduction of additional environmental requirements could threaten housing affordability across Europe, unless strong financial incentives are put in place.

Build Europe is glad to inform the work of the European Commission to promote energy efficiency across the EU and support its ambition – expressed in the Energy Efficiency Directive - to achieve greenhouse gas reductions of 55% in a responsible way by 2030. Developers and housebuilders are ready to make efforts to improve the energy efficiency of new buildings.

According to Build Europes feedback (attached), Europes housing problem is not primarily a market failure, but a supply problem. Across Member States, housing is not being delivered at the scale needed, largely because of structural constraints. These include complex and slow permitting, limited land availability, regulatory uncertainty, rising construction costs, financing constraints, and taxation.

Build Europe, the European association representing the national federations of European developers and homebuilders, accounting for more than 60% of EUs homebuilding capacity and 17 states, welcomes the EU action plan on accelerating the heat pump market and deployment. We endorse the Commission's initiative to review the ecodesign requirements (e.g.