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Through the development and delivery of a mental health and wellbeing digital learning hub and supporting digital campaign, hard to reach (micro-organisations) in the construction industry will be better equipped to manage mental health, wellbeing and resilience issues that they encounter in the workplace.

Laing O’Rourke, in collaboration and partnership with other Construction Companies and Trade Organisations, will engage the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and The Samaritans to develop a Wellbeing & Resilience Hub. The aim is to raise awareness, develop skills and inform construction workers of themes of wellbeing, mental health and resilience. Specifically, the project will 'target' individuals who work for smaller businesses, and those classed as hard to reach. The project will work with the Samaritans to deliver a marketing campaign to drive traffic to the digital hub, increasing participation and long-term engagement. 

The Timewise: Designing Flexible Career Pathways in Construction project will work with several major contractors and their supply chains to gain new insight into how to make flexible working work in the construction industry, by designing and piloting new approaches to flexible working construction sites and in HQ offices, in order to evaluate, codify and share insights to create roadmap for wider change in the industry.

The project will deliver skills and knowledge to enable business leaders across the supply chain to embed digital ledger technology (DLT / block chain) by demonstrating the business case for doing so, as well as practical digital concepts and methods. It will provide guidance on enhancements to existing processes and behaviours to enable this technology to be adopted.

The project will establish a network of champions and pathfinders across the supply chain to aid communication and engagement supporting the validation of digital ledger technology. It will develop training content that will upskill construction leaders across the supply chain in how to fully unlock this technology.

After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. A white paper will report on the training outcomes and provide best practice guidance on how to embed DLT in the supply chain. The training materials use to achieve this will be made freely available to industry.

BuildForce - Veterans will deliver a service to the veteran community (who left military service at least a year ago) and to construction employers. The aim of the service will be to help veterans “get jobs in construction and get into training which leads to jobs in construction”. 

• BuildForce will provide the wraparound service (finding, screening, supporting and brokering candidates into work experience and into employment)  with UCEM delivering three activities for BuildForce; developing more accessible and inclusive learning pathways to meet the needs of industry
• Collaboration with MHS (Mental Health and Support) Training and Consultancy Limited (CITB approved trainer) will roll out the innovative Lendlease and MHS pilot of providing 1-2-1 mental health first aid support to the beneficiaries and supporting them in getting more help if required.

This project aims to take the learnings and experiences of delivering the highly successful CITB funded BuildForce and adapt the model to create new and better pathways for all five cohorts.

However, this project will differ from BuildForce in that it will access unique software that will semantically link data from the supply side of all five cohorts and from the demand side of the construction industry (labour forecasts) in a way that creates the pathways for beneficiaries to achieve work related outcomes.

LBC will adopt a coordinated approach to up-scaling its existing services and extend the offering of this for a construction sector specific pathway to engage more women and long term unemployed into the Croydon construction sector.

It adopts a regional approach to extend its services and will also support construction employers to get better at recruiting from these hard to reach talent pools.

CS4L will provide a minimum of 1,500 engagement opportunities and a Pre-Employment course lasting up to 6 weeks for 150 people to enable them to become Construction Industry ready.

Furthermore, CS4L aims to ensure that a minimum of 46 outstanding ‘trainees’ from the courses secure immediate offers of employment.  

The consortium aims to ensure that a minimum of 25% of the trainees are female.

The programme will offer access to construction courses (a Level 1 Introduction to Construction and a CSCS card), functional skills support and most importantly provide a 2-week industry placement. 

This will be supported by an in-house Business Mentor, so they gain a comprehensive understanding of their chosen trades/ occupation.

This project will seek to design and develop a program of activities that would enable a suitable transition into the construction industry for the target group (Service leavers and Full-time Learners).

The program will involve training, placement, mentoring and support for the target groups to successful transition into employment into the construction industry.  One of the unique features of this project will be the development of online resources that will be freely available to construction industry companies designed to equip companies to attract and retain employees from the target group.

The online resources will also be available to FE and other training organisations to help them deliver suitable soft-skills content to their students. The project will provide a template that will make it easier for construction industry companies to directly employ the target group and support them without the involvement of third parties. As such, one of the key project deliverables will be the development of online resources to be freely available on a dedicated website.

This project will deliver a menu of collaborative support, employability and occupational/vocational training complemented with work experience.

Over the three years of the project, they will engage 180 beneficiaries, 90 from each of two priority groups (NEET and Service Leavers).

This project will address an identified industry need to recruit and train 100 FTE ne, quality assessors to enable the efficient delivery of assessments for apprenticeships in Scotland.

Working in partnership with 23 of Scotland’s construction colleges, government agencies and private training providers, a coordinated approach in recruiting 100 FTE assessors will be managed and implemented by ESP applying a good geographical spread across CITB’s 7 regions.