Green Building Competences for the European Green Deal: A Knowledge Skills Attitudes Framework

Green building is a practical pathway for meeting the European Green Deal objectives through lower life cycle impacts, healthier indoor environments, responsible material use, and improved resource efficiency across construction and renovation. This paper develops and characterises a competence framework for green building derived from the GreenSCENT competence framework materials. The framework is organised into four competence areas and twelve competences, each articulated through sets of knowledge, skills, and attitudes and mapped across European Qualifications Framework levels. The resulting framework contains 276 statements distributed across knowledge, skills, and attitudes, enabling curriculum design, formative assessment, and micro credential development for learners ranging from introductory to expert levels. Quantitative profiling highlights uneven density across competences, with project management and energy saving in buildings carrying the largest statement sets, indicating strong cross cutting requirements in governance and operational performance. The framework supports education and training that connects building design, material stewardship, technology selection, circular practices, and economic decision, making in a single competence logic aligned with Green Deal policy directions.