Zentralverband Deutsches Baugewerbe
Acronym: ZDB
General Information
Identification Code: 929343834686-12
Website: https://www.zdb.de/
Entity Form: e.V. (registered non-profit association)
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 4/29/2019
Last Update: 3/28/2024
EP Accredited Number: 1
Mission & Interests
Goals: The German Construction Confederation ZDB (Zentralverband Deutsches Baugewerbe) is the employers' and trade association of the medium-sized German construction industry. It represents the interests of about 35,000 small and medium-sized owner-operated construction companies occupying 70 % of all employees and apprentices of the construction industry. As the largest trade association in the sector, it represents the entire spectrum of the construction industry from clas-sical building construction, road construction and civil engineering to finishing work. ZDB brings together both small, owner-managed companies with a strong handicraft tradition and large medium-sized companies. ZDB is social partner.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Competition
- Education and training
- Employment and social affairs
- Energy
- Environment
- Single market
- Transport
Levels of Interest:
- national
- sub-national
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Internal Market and its social component, public procurement, transport and infrastructure, technical harmonisation, Green Deal (sustainability, energy, circular economy, renovation wave), digitalisation, education, in particular:
- 2017/0114(COD) - Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (Eurovignette)
- 2016/0397(COD) - Social security coordination (in particular PD A1)
- 2021/0104(COD) - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- 2021/0426(COD) - Energy Performance for Buildings Directive (EPBD)
- 2022/0094(COD) - Construction Products Regulation
- CPR Acquis Process
- Implementation of Posting of workers Directive (EU) 2018/957
- Implementation of the Working time directive 2003/88/EG
- Taxonomy (DNSH-Criteria)
- European Industrial Strategy (Ecosystem Construction)
Communication Activities: Positions: see https://www.zdb.de/positionen
Publications: https://www.zdb.de/publikationen
Events and Information: https://www.zdb.de/presse
EU-Projects: Skills Blueprint in construction constructionblueprint.eu/
(No 600885-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-SSA-B)
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Kronenstraße 55-58
Post Code: 10117
City: Berlin
Country: GERMANY
Phone:
Indic Phone: 49
Phone Number: 30203140
EU Office
Address: Rue Jaques de Lalaing 4
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
Phone:
Indic Phone: 32
Phone Number: 22868054
Financial Data
Closed Year:
Start Date:
End Date:
Funding Sources:
Contributions:
Total Budget: 0
Grants:
Current Year:
Grants:
- Source: EU Commission (Project: 600885-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-SSA-B)Amount: 0Currency: €_id:Buffer:0: 1041: 642: 613: 714: 1585: 2126: 1827: 328: 869: 9010: 4811: 66
Membership Information
Members50 Percent: 2
Members: 2
Members F T E: 1
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: The following 32 member associations together with the guilds are the basis of ZDB: see
https://www.zdb.de/der-verband/mitgliedsverbaende
The sectors represented in our association are organised in the following federal expert groups: see https://www.zdb.de/der-verband/bundesfachgruppen
- Fachverband Hoch- und Massivbau
- Fachverband Fliesen und Naturstein
- Bundesfachgruppe Feuerungs- und Schornsteinbau
- Bundesfachgruppe Betonwerkstein, Fertigteile, Terrazzo und Naturstein
- Bundesverband Ausbau und Fassade
- Bundesfachgruppe Estrich und Belag
- Holzbau Deutschland - Bund Deutscher Zimmermeister
- Bundesfachgruppe Wärme-, Kälte-, Schall- und Brandschutz
- Bundesfachgruppe Brunnenbau, Spezialtiefbau und Geotechnik
- Straßen- und Tiefbaugewerbe
Organisation Members: ZDB is member :
- of FIEC, the European umbrella association of the construction industry
TR ID 92221016212-42
http://www.fiec.eu/en/fiec/fiec-members.aspx
- of ZDH - Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks
TR ID 5189667783-94
https://www.zdh.de/organisationen-des-handwerks/zentralfachverbaende/adressen/?letter=b
- of Bundesvereinigung Bauwirtschaft
http://www.bv-bauwirtschaft.de/zdb-cms.nsf/id/mitglieder-bvb
Current Job Opportunities
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