Lightwall Receives Brazil’s First Environmental Label for Construction System

Lightwall Brasil has become the first company in the country to receive an Environmental Label for a construction system from the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).

Public Consultation Closing for PAS 1958 on Built Environment Digitalization

A new standard aiming to unify data and information management in the built environment -

Jardine Engineering Secures ISO 19650 BIM Certification for Digital Construction

The Jardine Engineering Corporation Limited (JEC) has become one of Hong Kong’s first engineering services providers to achieve certification to ISO 19650-1:2018 and ISO 19650-2:2018,

ILNAS Issues Fifth Edition of Construction Standards Analysis

The Luxembourg Institute for Standardization, Accreditation, Safety, and Quality of Products and Services (ILNAS) has released the fifth edition of its Normative Analysis of the Construction Sector.

Morgan Sindall Construction Achieves BS 99001 Certification for Sector-Specific Quality

Morgan Sindall Construction has been certified by BSI to BS 99001, a quality management systems (QMS) standard tailored to the built environment. 

CCSI Airport First in World to Earn BSI BIM Kitemark for Digital Design and Construction

Chaudhary Charan Singh International (CCSI Airport) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, has become the first airport in the world to receive the BSI Kitemark for Building Information Modelling (BIM) Design and Construction.

UNE Launches Committee to Advance Industrialized Construction Standards

The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) has formally created a technical subcommittee focused on industrialized construction to develop standards for this growing building method in Spain.

Lumar Recognized as Slovenia’s Best in Prefab Wood Homes with QUDAL Award

Lumar has been named the only recipient of the 2025–2026 QUDAL Quality Medal in the category of prefabricated wooden houses in Slovenia.

Norway to Develop Unified Method for Infrastructure Emissions Calculations

Standard Norway has launched efforts to create a unified national method for calculating greenhouse gas emissions in infrastructure projects. The new standard will address the current lack of consistency across roads, railways, bridges, and other large-scale works.

Standards Australia Releases Major Update to AS 4000 Construction Contract

Standards Australia has released the updated AS 4000:2025 General Conditions of Contract, marking its first revision since 1997 and aligning the standard with nearly three decades of legal and industry developments.

Green Building Certification Spain Gets First Accreditation for Private EU Sustainability Scheme

Green Building Certification Spain is the first organization in Spain to receive accreditation from the Entidad Nacional de Acreditación (ENAC) for verifying and validating compliance with the EU’s Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle under a private scheme.

EURIA Becomes First in Americas to Earn ISO 19650 Certification for BIM Project Management

Mexican project management firm EURIA, based in Guadalajara, has become the first organization in the Americas to obtain ISO 19650 certification for its use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the design and construction phase.