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- Creation of demolition non-specific guidance notes
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:National Demolition Training GroupAmount awarded:£17,670Project summary:This project will produce 5 individual demolition specific sets of guidance notes. These guidance notes will be used by the Federation members and the wider industry to assist in ensuring that the knowledge of existing demolition sector staff including new employees is up to date providing access to clear, concise and current guidance notes, which ensure continued safe working and good practice.
- Developing timber frame manufacturing competence
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and courses, Small employer supportProject lead:Structural Timber AssociationAmount awarded:£38,500Project summary:The project will provide new competency based training materials which have been prioritised due to immediate demand from industry. These training materials will be available for electronic use.
These workbooks will be used specifically to support the delivery of the new Scottish Modern Apprenticeship programmes in Timber Frame Manufacture and Design, and to increase the skills, capability and capacity of the timber frame manufacturing using modern methods of construction.
After the project, the workbooks will be available to download from the Structural Timber Association website for industry to access and use.
- Development and delivery of environmental awareness training
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Leadership and managementProject lead:Walters UK LtdAmount awarded:£9,000Project summary:The project will build expertise in senior management through the IEMA Accredited Environmental Awareness course and use this expertise to develop and deploy be-spoke short-duration courses.
The training will adopt a modular structure to target particular specialisms. Developing modules rather than block courses allows the company to efficiently target specific job roles and remove non-essential content not relevant to the audience.
After the project the environmental awareness course will be developed and freely available upon request. 10 employers will have received the benefit of the training.
- Impact: CSR reporting for construction SMEs
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, Digital and new technology, Leadership and managementProject lead:National Federation of BuildersAmount awarded:£231,945Project summary:Small employers often lack the skills to deliver corporate social responsibility, and so can miss the benefits to themselves and the community, including winning new contracts.
The project will develop and deliver an online diagnostic tool that identifies an organisation’s maturity in terms of corporate social responsibility.
This will help to develop participating employers’ skills and capacity in this area.
- Introduction to heritage construction skills
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and roles, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Carmarthenshire Construction Training AssociationAmount awarded:£13,012Project summary:The project will provide training focused on heritage construction. Thirty individuals currently following NVQ2 and 3 will benefit from this training. A third of buildings in Wales were built before 1919 and are different in both the materials used and the structure as compared to modern buildings. Existing NVQ courses provide no training on make and model of old buildings. Yet it is likely that learners will be required to work on old buildings during their career. This training will ensure the preservation of heritage.
- Multi-skilling in construction to address strategic industry priorities
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resourcesProject lead:B4BoxAmount awarded:£48,000Project summary:This project addresses the issues of supply and demand in multi-skilled training by:
- Increasing the quality of provision and capacity to train
- Raising awareness of the potential of multi-skilling to tackle strategic industry priorities
- Deliver quantifiable business and employee benefits.
- Property Level Flood Protection Training & Development Toolkit
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and courses, Small employer supportProject lead:Property Care AssociationAmount awarded:£2,296Project summary:The project will develop training essential to the upskilling of flood industry professionals in the area of Property Level Protection (PLP) The training will support employers working in Flood Protection. The project will pilot newly developed training materials and look to introduce an examination process leading to a certificated qualification.
- Research Investment Fund - CECA
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Productivity and new ways of workingProject lead:Civil Engineering Contractors AssociationAmount awarded:£35,000Project summary:This project was commissioned to provide empirical evidence of the scale of the skills gap and skills shortage in the profession of the Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW).
The availability of ECoW has not historically been measured nor their competence assessed. As a result, there is concern that skills gaps and potential skills shortages in this area could exist.
- Research Investment Fund
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Sectors and rolesProject lead:Construction Plant AssociationAmount awarded:£35,000Project summary:The project responds to a need to conduct research into the Plant sector to better understand the number of plant operators, and the degree of entry to – exit from the labour force.
The project will use this research to gain better data which can be used for planning and implementing recruitment and upskilling programmes in both general and specialist areas.
- Right to Work training videos
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Fortem Solutions (formerly Willmott Dixon Partnerships)Amount awarded:£18,441Project summary:The Right to Work project is aimed at providing construction businesses, and their entire supply chain with accessible training on how to check the ‘right to work’ status of all their employees thereby preventing illegal working and any modern slavery/trafficking activities.
The method for communicating this information will be via video. This video can be hosted on the CITB website or CITB YouTube channels, allowing access to everyone in the industry, large or small.