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- Think Build
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitment, Learning resourcesProject lead:Wates ConstructionAmount awarded:£47,152Project summary:The Think Build project is a pilot programme adapted from the award-winning Think Logistics programme set up in 2014 as a partnership between several logistics firms and the charity Career Ready.
Its aim is to provide an effective method of employer engagement in schools. Industry volunteers deliver workshops to younger teenagers, leading to an in-depth programme of mentoring, masterclasses and work placements for 16-18 year olds.
- Women in construction – changing the face of construction
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Careers and recruitmentProject lead:BAM NuttallAmount awarded:£480,392Project summary:The project will address gender diversity in construction, focusing on Crossrail and Tideway and key construction projects in London and Birmingham.
As the lead delivery partner, Women into Construction will use innovative techniques to deliver advice and guidance on work experience and training to support women in to sustainable employment.
This advice and guidance will be based on best practice delivered in over 60 construction companies over 8 years and trialling new approaches in the West Midlands.
- Developing Leaders
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, New qualifications and courses, Leadership and managementProject lead:Geo. Houlton & SonsAmount awarded:£15,671Project summary:The project will deliver a programme of leadership training to management teams, which will enable people to be more effective in their management roles and empower them to be a good role model for the Houlton way of doing business.
- Homebuilders supporting and developing skills in existing contractor supply chain workforce
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Home Builders FederationAmount awarded:£192,055Project summary:The project will build networks of employers in the Home Building supply chain and promote collaboration between home builders, sub-contractors and the supply chain.
It will identify training needs of those that are less engaged in training, and influence the dis-engaged to increase their level of training and therefore increasing their engagement with CITB.
Having identified training needs, a series of short-duration off-job training interventions will be delivered to meet the supply chain needs.
- Piloting the Deployment of ISO18404 in the Construction Sector
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Leadership and management, Small employer supportProject lead:Gilbert and GoodeAmount awarded:£151,208Project summary:The project will develop a programme to accredit organisations in the British Standards Institution ISO18404 for Lean Construction.
One organisation will receive the accreditation and a best practice case study will be developed to support other employers through the process.
After the project, one employer will become accredited in the ISO Lean Construction standard. Another will have undertaken training so they have the ability to do so. The guidance and training materials used to achieve this will be made available to industry so that other employers can go on the same journey and achieve accreditation.
- Productivity - reducing rework - Berkeley Group (commission)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Berkeley GroupAmount awarded:£103,890Project summary:The project will increase productivity by reducing the errors and defects that cause rework. Modules and e-learning will be developed and piloted that will deliver collaborative planning processes at design interface of projects. To make the project scalable, set of train the trainer resources will be produced.
Research will identify and recommend ways of measuring the rate errors and defects. This will help to set out an industry baseline to measure any future impact on productivity.
After the project, the course modules and teaching resources will be made freely available to industry and be eligible for short-duration grant funding. Guidance on how to implement the training with their partner modules for the other two 'Get it right' projects to deliver change on a project or in an organisation. Guidance will explain how to deliver training, when and with which roles.
- Productivity - reducing rework - FMB (commission)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Federation of Master BuildersAmount awarded:£127,952Project summary:The project will increase productivity by reducing the errors and defects that cause rework. A new L5 qualification will be developed and rolled out on Energy Efficiency in Retrofit Project Management. This will help to set out an industry baseline to measure any future impact on productivity.
After the project, the qualification will be published online and available either as a face to face module or by means of e-learning.
- Productivity - reducing rework - Kier (commission)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Kier Construction LtdAmount awarded:£94,340Project summary:The project will increase productivity by reducing the errors and defects that cause rework. Modules and e-learning will be developed and piloted that will deliver a ‘right first time’ culture at leadership level of organisations. To make the project scalable, set of train the trainer resources will be produced.
Research will identify and recommend ways of measuring the rate errors and defects. This will help to set out an industry baseline to measure any future impact on productivity.
After the project, the course modules and teaching resources will be made freely available to industry and be eligible for short-duration grant funding. Guidance on how to implement the training with their partner modules for the other two 'Get it right' projects to deliver change on a project or in an organisation. Guidance will explain how to deliver training, when and with which roles.
- Productivity - reducing rework - Vinci PLC (commission)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Small employer support, New qualifications and courses, Leadership and managementProject lead:Vinci PLCAmount awarded:£115,945Project summary:The project will increase productivity by reducing the errors and defects that cause rework. Modules and e-learning will be developed and piloted that will deliver ‘right first time’ behaviours at operational level of organisations. To make the project scalable, set of train the trainer resources will be produced.
Research will identify and recommend ways of measuring the rate errors and defects. This will help to set out an industry baseline to measure any future impact on productivity.
After the project, the course modules and teaching resources will be made freely available to industry and be eligible for short-duration grant funding. Guidance on how to implement the training with their partner modules from the other two 'Get it right' projects to deliver change on a project or in an organisation. Guidance will explain how to deliver training, when and with which roles.
- Supporting behavioural change within the UK’s aviation infrastructure
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:National Association of Shop-fittersAmount awarded:£81,000Project summary:The project will deliver the CITB's Achieving Behavioural Change (ABC) programme. This essential programme:
- covers legal duties of employers and employees
- defines hazards, risks and control measures
- lists possible causes of accidents
- helps employees understand the link between attitude and behaviour, the costs of poor safety performance, the benefits of good safety performance and how to put ABC into practice.
After the end of the project, workers in the Manchester airport Group Estate will have achieved the training and will have the skill-sets to improve safety in the working environment.
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