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- Building the future
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Small employer support, New qualifications and courses, Leadership and managementProject lead:North West Contractors Training GroupAmount awarded:£52,400Project summary:The project will build capacity in the North West by adding onto the existing services the North West Contractors Training Group offers to its members. These services will deliver business improvement through a toolkit containing 12 modules. These 12 modules will be piloted through a series of workshops designed to support members in the delivery of this toolkit to their employees.
- Building Your Business, Doing The Job
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:North Yorkshire Construction Training GroupAmount awarded:£36,267Project summary:The project will address the common obstacles faced by construction sector SME’s, and will improve the long term growth and financial sustainability of the company. The project is a business programme combining structured workshops which address generic problems and issues faced by SME’s, and bespoke one to one coaching and support
- Carbon Coach Course
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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 coursesProject lead:Esh ConstructionAmount awarded:£34,600Project summary:The project will develop a 'Carbon Coach Course', this course will be a comprehensive skills programme for construction apprenticeships, introducing the topic of carbon reduction and best practice energy management to attendees.
The project will equip the industry to respond to the 2025 objective 'Driving Carbon out of the Built Environment 2025'.
- Construction Collaborative Leadership Framework
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, Leadership and management, New qualifications and courses, Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Scottish Building FederationAmount awarded:£120,840Project summary:The project will deliver a radical approach to collaborative leadership based on existing and emerging global best practice models fit for this connected and potentially disruptive world. It will collaborate with key stakeholders to develop joint solutions on skills gaps, industry and societal challenges. The collaboration will result in a framework aligned to the challenges and opportunities facing the industry and its position in the wider society.
- 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.
- 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.
- My home – assess and train 900 engineers nationwide
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Small employer support, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Willmott DixonAmount awarded:£50,000Project summary:The project will design a programme to assess and to train over 900 engineers nationwide to support them in developing skills needed to be a property maintenance engineer.
After the project industry efficiency will be increased by reducing travel time and ensuring jobs are completed on a first visit basis. This will increase customer satisfaction.
The resources used to achieve this will be available for industry to use.
- Quality and safety in the highway – backfilling the excavation
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and rolesProject lead:Energy and Utility SkillsAmount awarded:£51,830Project summary:The project is the third and final stage of a set of three projects which have piloted a series of short videos These videos communicate key information on the topic of safety at work.
The aim of these videos is to influence behaviour and reduce accidents on site to develop a learning resource which is flexible, can be delivered on site with minimal resource, and can be embedded into existing training practices through the Utilities Contractors Training Group membership.
- 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.
- 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.