Per-square-foot construction costs are what contractors, construction companies, architects and engineers are concerned with.

15. Calls on the Commission to establish a working group, together with the Member States, to develop minimum asbestos-specific qualifications for civil engineers, architects and employees of registered asbestos removal companies and to provide asbestos-specific qualifications for the training of other workers likely to be exposed to asbestos such as employees in the shipbuilding industry and farmers, with a strong focus on people in charge of removing asbestos on the ground, by strengthening their training, their protective equipment and the control of their activities by the responsible authorities of the Member States;

The coalition presently has about a hundred members in good standing: manufacturers, designers, engineers, architects, financial firms and institutions, governments and municipalities, in fact, the kind of membership that a fully representative association should have.

The European Construction Technology Platform has already brought together, under industry leadership, a wide range of stakeholders (e.g. clients/users organisations, energy supply companies, local-regional authorities, materials producers, equipment manufacturers, architects, engineers and key technologists) to develop a Strategic Research Agenda.

In Switzerland, architects and engineers are often trained together.

This paper highlights ways that improve energy efficiency in this sector, such as the training of architects and engineers through the agenda for new skills and jobs and allowing for energy service companies (ESCOs) to give money to public authorities to reduce energy consumption.