AEEBC Launch EurBE card

The Association of European Building Surveyors and Construction Experts has launched its accreditation scheme for construction and building professionals. This provides an opportunity for suitably qualified professionals from across Europe to achieve European recognition and accreditation alongside their national qualification. The professional designation “EurBE” is awarded to candidates who meet the experience and competence requirements of the AEEBC. Applicants are assessed firstly by an AEEBC National Committee in the country in which they operate and secondly by an AEEBC European Committee.

Professionals who are awarded EurBE will be recognised as having met the AEEBC common European wide threshold standards required of a Building Expert. All individual members of the professional institutions and associations that make up the AEEBC are eligible to apply. Assessment is based on academic qualifications, professional experience and commitment to comply with an approved ethical code of conduct.

The AEEBC objective is to create a Europe wide qualification and common title that will gain increasing recognition by regulating authorities and organisations, thus helping to promote cross border recognition and the free movement of professionals across Europe.

The AEEBC goal is that the common title “European Building Expert” will help overcome the confusion of titles amongst building and construction professionals fulfilling similar roles. Professionals with titles such as building surveyor, building engineer, constructing architect, technical architect, architectural technologist etc will be able to adopt a common language and rally under the “European Building Expert” umbrella to describe their profession in a European context.

Construction professionals who go through the AEEBC assessment process and are awarded the EurBE accreditation are subscribing to a European ideal which is expected to achieve broader acceptance over time. The whole question of recognition and European harmonisation is complex, nevertheless the AEEBC is an organisation which many believe is leading the way in cutting bureaucracy and finding practical ways to promote recognition and mobility, particularly across its principal membership (professional associations), with some success.

AEEBC Accredited European Building Experts will need to have the same pioneering spirit of the AEEBC but for a nominal annual fee they will benefit from the acquisition of a common accredited European title, membership of a pan-European professional association, access to a European network of like minded competent professionals and be able to clearly demonstrate that they have satisfied the threshold standards at a European level.