Live funded projects
Project Name: Virtual Tasters
Contracted Partners: Careers Collective Ltd
This project positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and supports individuals to make good career choices via a three-minute pre-taster video and supporting learning materials.
Watch the video Go Construct and CITB Explore Construction: Build an Exciting Future
For more information please visit Careers Collective Ltd.
Project Name: Scotland Tasters
Contracted Partners: The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
This project positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and supports individuals to make good career choices via a suite of guidance documents to give clarity to employers on how to deliver a good quality taster including taster plans for large and small construction sites and across key skill areas.
For more information please visit Construction Work Tasters.
Project Name: Brickwork Masterclasses
Contracted Partners: Home Builders Federation (HBF) and NHBC Building Inspectors
This project delivers sessions that offer practical guidance on improving quality and promote awareness of good practice in brickwork.
For more information visit Fully funded Brickwork Masterclass - NHBC Shop
Project Name: Brickwork Upskilling
Contracted Partners: The ABC Assessment Centre
High quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers, through the delivery of 16 short duration training courses offered to further education and skilled workers. Support the training of further education tutors to enable continuous delivery post funding.
For more information visit: The ABC Assessment Centre - UK Bricklayer Training & Construction NVQs
Project Name: Creating new courses in Bricklaying based on new Standards
Contracted Partners: ABC Assessment Centre
Creating high quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers, through the launch of 16 short duration training courses offered to further education and skilled workers.
For more information visit Creating new courses in Bricklaying or The ABC Assessment Centre
Project Name: Leadership and Management Direct Delivery
Contracted Partners: The OM Group, Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd, MKC Training Services Ltd
The Leadership and Management Direct Delivery commission will run from December 2022 until 31st March 2025 and will provide 10,500 free ILM leadership and management courses to front-line managers, site supervisors and site managers in England, Scotland and Wales.
There is a pre-defined package of 5 modules that cover the core learnings needed to be a great leader. With measurable results: workplace-based assessment ensures new skills are effectively transferred to your business.
Free ILM qualification places are being provided by the following training partners:
The OM Group (Scotland, Wales, North of England and South of England) For more information visit their website.
Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd (South of England) For more information visit their website
MKC Training Services Ltd (South of England) For more information visit their website
For further insight and information about this commission please see the CITB and ILM slides (PowerPoint, 4.72MB) or listen to the joint CITB and ILM webinar. In this webinar ILM and CITB shared news of the leadership and management skills movement in the construction sector, including:
- Why CITB is investing in leadership and management training for the construction sector
- What the research is telling us
- Features and benefits of the ILM qualification
- Flexibility of the offer
- Learner testimonies
- Funding and eligibility
- Introduction to the providers
- What next? How to access the training available?
Project Name: Digital Leadership
Contracted Partners: Gloucestershire Construction Training Group, Leeds Beckett University, Setting out for Construction and Supply Chain Sustainability School.
This intervention consists of 4 projects which focus on giving construction leaders the skills to drive digital change
For more information on each project visit the links below:
Gloucestershire Construction Training Group
Leeds Beckett University or LBU Digital Leadership
Supply Chain Sustainability School or Downloading a Digital Mindset Training Module
Project Name: GIRI Training Commission
Contracted Partners: BAM Nuttall Ltd, Vinci Plc, Kie Infrastructure & Overseas Ltd & VolkerStevin Infrastructure Ltd
The GIRI (Get It Right Initiative) Training commission is to support and four employers to become GIRI Approved Training Providers thus equipping appropriate internal trainers with the skills, knowledge, and tools to deliver GIRI accredited training to approximately 5,000 individuals within their own workforce and supply chain. The commission will also provide an opportunity to generate and collect evidence of the benefits of the training in terms of the impact on the productivity and cost and frequency of error on projects and organisations.
GIRIs accredited training scheme directly targets the root causes of error and empowers companies, project teams, and individuals to get it right first time. GIRI courses enable employees to develop the right skills to collaboratively understand, pre-empt and avoid error in their daily work.
The three streams of training are:
- Leadership training - Strategies to eliminate error, for leaders of organisations and leaders of construction projects
- Training across interfaces - Techniques to avoid interface errors in design and construction, for managers and designers
- Supervisory and management skills - Supervision and planning skills to prevent errors during construction, for site supervisors and managers.
For more information please visit: GIRI Training Commission - Vinci PLC, or GIRI Training Commission - BAM Nuttall Ltd.
Project Name: Mental Health for Construction Apprentices
Contracted Partners: Optima UK Inc Ltd
This pilot will provide evidence contributing to addressing key industry problems of completion rates in apprenticeships and prevent the loss of talent through providing mental health support and awareness training to new entrants into construction. This would help understand how mental health education and support can contribute to improved retention for individuals during their apprenticeship in construction, as well as reducing their likelihood of a mental health crisis when in the workplace.
For more information visit ARE-U-OK-UK (optima-uk.com) or Mental Health.
Project Name: Fairness, Inclusion and Respect
Contracted Partners: Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) and Supply Chain Sustainability School
This project is delivering a range of training that promotes a culture of fairness, inclusion and respect (FIR). This project also helps leaders and managers in the construction industry to improve inclusion and to train FIR Ambassadors to spread the benefits across the industry.
For more information visit FIR project or SCS - FIR.
Project Name: Wellbeing in Construction
Contracted Partners: Laing O’Rourke, Lighthouse Club and Samaritans
Better equip the construction industry to manage mental health, wellbeing and resilience issues that they encounter in the workplace, through the development and delivery of a mental health and wellbeing digital learning hub. With a focus on hard-to-reach micro-organisations.
For more information visit Wellbeing in Construction.
Project Name: England Construction Opportunities
Contracted Partners: Abbey Access Centre Ltd, Barking Riverside Ltd, Gement, Hampshire County Council, Landau Ltd, NFRC, WMCA, Women into Construction
This commission will focus on the support provided in the workplace during a new entrants first year in construction. This will be through job coaching, mentoring, employer engagement, peer and buddy systems or other appropriate support measures to improve the quality and retention of new entrants.
For more information visit
- Abbey Access Centre Ltd
- Barking Riverside Ltd
- Gement
- Hampshire County Council
- Landau Ltd
- NFRC
- WMCA
- Women into Construction
Project Name: Scottish Academy for Construction Opportunities
Contracted Partners: Barnardo’s , Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar
This commission for Scotland is to provide support to individuals entering the construction workforce to overcome any initial challenges they may face and to provide ongoing in-work support over the duration of the commission to improve the quality and longevity of work outcomes for participants.
For more information visit
Project Name: Careers in Hire
Contracted Partners: Hire Association Europe
This project focuses on developing entry routes and raising awareness of the sector to people who had never considered hire as a viable career option, including influencing decision makers through a comprehensive marketing/promotional campaign.
For more information on Careers in Hire visit Training & Apprenticeships (hae.org.uk)
Project Name: Onsite Experience Hubs
In 2019 CITB launched the Onsite Experience Hubs to help address the complex recruitment challenges facing the construction industry in England and Wales. The Hubs aims are to deliver new entrants to the industry that are job-ready and have had an onsite experience.
For more information visit the links below:
England Partners
Onsite Experience Hubs in England - Seven onsite experience hubs are in operation.
Wales Partners
Onsite Experience Hubs in Wales - Four onsite experience hubs are in operation.
Project Name: Roofing Masterclasses
Contracted Partners: Home Builders Federation (HBF) and NHBC Building Inspectors
This project will develop and deliver masterclass sessions that offer practical guidance on improving quality and promote awareness of good practice in roofing.
Project Name: RoofCERT
Contracted Partners: NFRC
This project has established and is promoting industry wide standards for all roofing disciplines through an "Accredited Roofer" programme, named RoofCERT, this will act as a skills baseline for the sector and will professionalise the industry.