The new division of ÉVOSZ has made fair market competition and feasible plans its guiding principles

High-quality building services engineering for a liveable and energy-efficient built environment – this was the message with which Építési Vállalkozók Országos Szakszövetsége announced the launch of its new division.

In their statement, they emphasised that, within the Hungarian construction industry’s market worth approximately 8,300 billion forints, the building services engineering installation and supply sector accounts for a very significant share of around 640 billion forints.

According to the report

• the current challenges facing the sector,
• the lack of fair competition in the market
• and the challenges of vocational training

The Building Services Engineering Department (ÉVOSZ) was established in recognition of this.

Increasingly frequent design flaws and errors also pose a serious risk

They explained that the energy-efficient and sustainable operation of modern buildings is now inconceivable without high-quality building services engineering solutions.

„At the same time, the shrinking market, the changing landscape of state support, increasingly frequent planning shortcomings, and the presence of unlicensed contractors pose serious business and quality risks,” the statement reads.

The new division was established to address these issues and to enhance the effectiveness of professional representation. The founders agreed that high-quality building services engineering is not merely a technical matter, but a fundamental prerequisite for a liveable and energy-efficient built environment.

Contractors, manufacturers and retailers are also represented

As an open platform, the section aims to collect and disseminate best practices and innovative solutions.

At the inaugural meeting, the representatives of the founding member companies present unanimously elected László Németh, representative of ENSI Kft., as Chair of the Section, who recently won the „Construction Industry Personality of the Year” award at the Portfolio Construction Industry Conference.

The new management will begin implementing the professional work plan in collaboration with the members of the executive committee – representatives of the leading building services engineering contractors, manufacturers and distributors in the domestic market.

One of the objectives is to curb unworkable plans

In addition to this, the statement summarised the section’s main objectives and priorities in five points:

• Fair market competition and the curbing of substandard practices: Recognising high-quality workmanship and weeding out contractors who operate without authorisation or in an unprofessional manner, including by advocating for more effective on-site inspections.
• Predictable regulation and support schemes: Active advocacy in the legislative process, grounded in professional expertise. Taking the initiative to launch predictable, long-term energy efficiency and building renovation programmes with the government.
• A clear demarcation of responsibilities between designers and contractors: to reduce the number of unworkable designs, we must ensure the mandatory and consistent application of responsible design supervision, and encourage mandatory on-site construction placements for junior designers.
• Product certification and materials testing: Establishing a more rigorous and transparent product certification system for building services equipment, thereby preventing materials without the appropriate approvals from entering the market and being installed.
• Making education and the training of the next generation more practical: Enhancing the social recognition of the building services engineering profession. Strengthening dual training and vocational training by increasing the involvement of companies in practical training (establishing training workshops and training centres).