A Construction Skills Network report found that the built environment will need around 53,000 extra recruits each year over the next four years to meet projected UK construction demand. However, it is no secret that the construction industry has an ageing workforce. The knock on effect of an ageing workforce…
Ferrovial Construction’s UK business has high hopes That it can do its bit to address the country’s long standing skills deficit with its new apprentice programme: Futures, mentoring initiatives and career ‘roadmaps’.
Closing the skills gap remains priority number one for the civil engineering sector, says Ferrovial Construction UK’s managing director…
Apprenticeships: History repeating? Degree apprenticeships (Inside Track, last month) are really just reinventing the wheel. When I began my civil engineering career in the 1960s, I did so by means of what was then called a “sandwich course”. This involved paid sponsorship to undertake a degree course alternating with periods…
Like all of life’s great conundrums; Mars or Snickers, Peroni or Birra Moretti, hair up or hair down, deciding whether or not to go to university or head for the world of work and forge a career via an apprenticeship can be a difficult choice to make.
Historically, and particularly in…
Mechanical engineering firms Capula and Exyte Hargreaves are the latest companies to be awarded contracts to support the next phase of construction at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset.
Under the contracts, 80 new engineering posts will be created – among the expected 1,200 new workers and 300…
It’s a common view that the engineering sector is short of skilled people, failing to attract and retain all those who could achieve a successful career in the profession. But reforms to apprenticeship provision are now bearing fruit across the UK, helping address the skills shortfall. Apprentice vacancies are now…
Tideway has launched 12 apprenticeship positions for trainee engineers to learn about the tunnelling industry while working on the super sewer project.
As digging gets underway for London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel, project promoter Tideway is opening 12 level two apprenticeships for new engineers to train as the next generation of tunnellers. Works have begun in Battersea as Millicent,…
A lack of senior bridge inspectors in the UK could be causing a backlog in bridge assessments, engineers have warned.
There is a potential lack of new bridge inspectors entering the industry, a senior bridge inspector has said, and the industry needs to do more to recruit new engineers as career…
ICE Northern Ireland has helped produce an eight part television series celebrating the ICE’s 200th anniversary for Northern Ireland’s UTV.
Ulster Giants is a celebration of ICE 200 and the incredible civil engineers who have shaped Northern Ireland’s past, present and future. It opens with the following voiceover: “Roads and bridges,…
The number of apprentices working on Britain’s roads and railways is soaring.
The ‘Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy – Two Years on’ report shows that 2,784 road and rail apprentices started training in 2017/18, a 22% year-on-year increase. Government and transport bodies are praised in the report for addressing the skills gap by…
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