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- Quality and skills training 'Spotlight on the industry'
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Careers and recruitment, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:British Drilling AssociationAmount awarded:£33,950Project summary:The project is an awareness campaign which will emphasise the importance of employing competent, highly trained and professional companies and personnel; increase training of new Apprenticeships and increase NVQ uptake; ensure that educational institutions charged with training future workforces understand the importance of relevant and compulsory qualifications. It will produce a paper: ‘Spotlight on Industry’ - this paper will share findings devised from this awareness campaign. It will be published in industry-specific journals to raise awareness and trigger debate
- Reinforced Concrete Frame upskilling
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and courses, Small employer supportProject lead:ConstructAmount awarded:£154,788Project summary:The project will work specifically with SMEs with less than 200 PAYE employees to:
- Promote the introduction of a new level 2 vocational qualification for Formwork Erector/Striker
- Upskill operatives to achieve currently available level 2 qualifications relevant to the RC Frame Sector
- Create a skills and competence pathway model to demonstrate how an individual can become trade qualified through an apprenticeship.
- Supply chain school – strategic partnership
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:SKANSKA - on behalf of supply chain partnersAmount awarded:£2,510,496Project summary:The project delivers a 5 year strategic collaboration with the CITB as a trusted advisor on skills issues within the sector to significantly increase the level of training within the supply chain and help to promote and enable innovation.
A longer term relationship will allow the School Partners to plan more strategically, innovate, foster collaboration and offer an opportunity to work with our supply chains to both close the skills gap and address skills shortages.
After the project industry will have access to a free online learning platform where they can undertake skills diagnostics and access knowledge / training under the subjects of offsite, sustainability and BIM.
Contractors will be able, through membership, to access aggregated and anonymous data on the performance of their supply chain members that engage with the learning platform. Over 20,000 learning interventions will have been delivered to the construction workforce.
- Technical upskilling for SME builders
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Federation of Master BuildersAmount awarded:£47,000Project summary:The project seeks to address issues raised by LABC inspectors in terms of avoidable common defects in building work through lack of knowledge of changing building regulations. This project will lead to more efficient working and fewer customer disputes. This will be achieved through: half-day training workshops designed to keep small builders up to date with changing regulations and technical advances, raise standards, reduce defects to disseminate information about new techniques.
- The Manse Skills Academy - Withdrawn
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:New qualifications and coursesProject lead:GMG ContractorsAmount awarded:£49,153Project summary:The project will deliver a bespoke skills academy in the east end of Glasgow. This facility will have a range of activities delivered on the premises, which will include SVQ level 2 roofing & tiling award, a new learning module developed in partnership with CITB and our local college. The Academy will be able to respond to training GMG registered apprentices at very short notice, ie when the weather is inclement and they are sent off site.
- Increasing capacity and capability to deliver immersive learning in construction industry (Immersive Learning)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Company)Amount awarded:£320,500Project summary:Collaborative, standardised industry-wide immersive learning framework
Open-source authoring tool for users to create VR learning content>Learning modules authored by each employer partner and delivered to employees
Case studies developed from 5x strands to show impact / benefits of immersive learning.
- Project pHAEton
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Hire Association EuropeAmount awarded:£225,960Project summary:The project will develop a web-based content creation platform and community space that allows users to generate their own learning experiences for virtual and augmented reality.
The system will use a simple drag and drop interface and will include a learner management system that will allow learning experiences to be tracked, monitored and quality assured.
The platform will host VR content developed by HAE from other projects. Content will be accessible in 3D via a computer screen and in PDF. The platform will be hosted by HAE, will be available to use by industry and funded by means of a low-cost pricing model.
After the project, industry will have access to a platform which allows for anyone to create VR and AR learning experiences in a simple and intuitive way. - Increasing capacity and capability to deliver immersive learning in construction industry (Immersive Learning) 2
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Funding topic:Digital and new technology, New qualifications and courses, Learning resourcesProject lead:AMRCAmount awarded:£330,500Project summary:
Collaborative, standardised industry-wide immersive learning framework
Open-source authoring tool for users to create VR learning content>Learning modules authored by each employer partner and delivered to employees
Case studies developed from 5x strands to show impact / benefits of immersive learning.
- Digital Leadership for the Construction Supply Chains (Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Leeds Beckett UniversityAmount awarded:£115,171Project summary:The project will deliver digital leadership change through establishing a hub and spoke supply chain model. It will set the contractor as the hub and the supply chain as the spokes, and use this infrastructure to influence and upskill supply chain leaders.
The project will conduct digital audits of participating organisations, develop case studies and use them to create online and F2F training material for best-practice digital leadership which will be delivered training through the hub and spoke model to leaders in participating contractors’ supply chain organisations.
After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. An online portal will be created that will house the case studies, training content and any lessons learned from the hub and spoke approach. This content will enable other supply chains to deliver the same leadership change programme.
- Digital Transformation through Leaders (Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Leadership and management, Small employer supportProject lead:Setting out for constructionAmount awarded:£292,936Project summary:The project delivers skills through a flexible model that allows leaders to engage in a way most appropriate to their needs.
- This model allows leaders to select and implement the elements of digital construction most beneficial to their organisation through a menu of open training courses, in-house support and coaching, seminars, webinars, on-line courses, written resources, an online diagnostic tool, open source teaching and training materials and by connecting construction companies to relevant experts.
- The project will target employers in the civil engineering sector in Scotland with post-project GB and wider sector scalability. It will upskill industry trainers and mentors to ensure the sustainability of the project.
- After the project participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. SOFC will continue to offer the service commercially, whilst making all training content freely available so others can also do the same. The trainers and mentors will continue to benefit their companies and supply chains.
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