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Who lobbies the Parliament on construction & real estate?

Construction contractors, building-materials makers (cement, bricks, insulation, gypsum), housing providers and property owners, and architects.

Organisations classified under Construction & real estate account for 716 declared MEP meetings across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about €11M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 7 November 2026.)

Most active organisations

OrganisationTypeMeetingsMEPs met
Cement Europe⁠↗Business group3921
Heidelberg Materials AG⁠↗Company3925
Aedes vereniging van woning­corporaties⁠↗NGO or non-profit3712
BOUYGUES EUROPE⁠↗Company3617
Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie⁠↗Business group3417
Compagnie de SAINT-GOBAIN⁠↗Company2820
Knauf Insulation⁠↗Company2826
VELUX A/S (VELUX Group)⁠↗Company2415
Ecocem Materials Ltd⁠↗Company2316
European Construction Industry Federation⁠↗Business group2017
ROCKWOOL A/S⁠↗Company1610
Byggföretagen⁠↗Business group1510

Also active here: organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in construction & real estate - European Federation of Building Societies.

MEPs most met by construction & real estate organisations

Across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. A member's own page counts this term only, so its sector figures can be lower.

Peter Liese
39 meetings in Construction & real estate
Christian Doleschal
23 meetings in Construction & real estate
Jens Geier
18 meetings in Construction & real estate
Sirpa Pietikäinen
17 meetings in Construction & real estate
Marcos Ros Sempere
15 meetings in Construction & real estate
Pascal Canfin
15 meetings in Construction & real estate
Andrea Wechsler
13 meetings in Construction & real estate
Dirk Gotink
13 meetings in Construction & real estate
Johan Danielsson
13 meetings in Construction & real estate
Mohammed Chahim
12 meetings in Construction & real estate
Niels Fuglsang
12 meetings in Construction & real estate
Seán Kelly
12 meetings in Construction & real estate

Sector labels are this site's own: reviewers chose the sector for 58 of the 69 profiled organisations here, and the other 11 carry a keyword classification by this site over organisation names, goals and Register categories. See methodology.