BUILDING CHANGES SUPPORT BV

Their core work

Building Changes Support is a Dutch SME that works at the intersection of workforce development and sustainable construction — specifically, stimulating demand for green skills among building sector professionals and companies. They contribute to projects that design and promote pathways for recognising, certifying, and digitally credentialing competencies related to sustainable energy and circular building practices. In the built environment, their practical focus spans green roofs, multifunctional façades, and interior green elements as applications that require upskilling procurement and construction teams. Their role in EU projects is to support adoption and awareness rather than to conduct fundamental research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 work (ARISE, from 2021) focused on the abstract infrastructure of skills — how to recognise, translate, and digitally certify competencies for people working in sustainable energy. Their second project, BUS-GoCircular (also starting 2021), moved the focus from credentials to physical application: green roofs, multifunctional façades, and circular procurement as the concrete context in which those skills are needed. In just two projects, the trajectory is clear — from skills systems design toward built-environment sector adoption, with circularity emerging as the organising principle.

They are moving deeper into the built environment sector, using green building elements and circular procurement as the practical entry points where skills demand needs to be created and certified.

How they like to work

Building Changes Support has never coordinated an H2020 project — they join consortia as a participating partner, likely contributing expertise in skills dissemination, stakeholder engagement, or sectoral outreach rather than technical research. Their two projects together involved 19 distinct partners across 14 countries, which is a broad European footprint for an SME of this size, suggesting they are comfortable operating in large, diverse Coordination and Support Action consortia. This profile fits an organisation valued for its network access and communication capacity rather than as a technical research provider.

Despite only two projects, they have worked with 19 unique partners spanning 14 countries, indicating participation in large pan-European consortia typical of CSA funding actions. Their network skews toward the education, training, and built-environment sectors common in energy transition skills projects.

What sets them apart

Building Changes Support occupies a niche at the overlap of green construction practice and workforce credentialling — an area most research institutes ignore and most training companies lack the EU project experience to enter. As a small Dutch SME they bring private-sector agility and practitioner credibility into consortia that otherwise skew toward academic partners. For a consortium building a project around green building renovation, upskilling supply chains, or circular construction procurement, they offer a channel into the professional building sector rather than the academic one.

Highlights from their portfolio

• BUS-GoCircular
  The largest of their two grants (€57,000) and the most distinctive thematically — it combines circular economy skills, procurement, and physical green building elements (roofs, façades) in a way that positions the company squarely in the built-environment transition space.
• ARISE
  Establishes their foundational credential — participation in a project designing digital certification and micro-credential frameworks for sustainable energy skills, which underpins their positioning in skills-system design.