The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) only delivered on three of its 12 key performance indicators in 2019/20.
The organisation’s delayed annual report and accounts for the last financial year include results of an employer and stakeholder survey, which informs the performance indicators set by its board.
These included a finding that only 26 per cent of the sector sees the CITB as “credible and reputable adding value to the industry”. Just 22 per cent thought there was a talent pool sufficient to meet industry needs and 25 per cent believe funding is commissioned to target priority areas.
It hit its performance targets on young people, influencers and educators becoming familiar with its campaigns and careers, increasing apprenticeship starts in construction in England to more than 22,000, and increasing the diversity of sex and ethnicity among apprentices in England.
EBBA’s pop-up construction school starts on Olympic Park site
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Source: EBBA
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Source: EBBA
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Work has started on EBBA Architects’ temporary construction skills school on the edge of the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London
The five-year project will be run by the Construction Industry Training Board and The Skills Centre and aims to provide ‘valuable skills-based hands-on learning to local people’, says the emerging practice.
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EBBA Architects was appointed to the project after an invited competition in mid-2019 and the scheme was granted planning permission later that year.
Design, procurement and construction processes have become more complex over time, and the added complications of covid-19 and Brexit have piled on the pressure. Steve Watts of Alinea examines in detail the factors affecting productivity and considers how we can bring about improvements to get more for less
01 / Introduction: the productivity puzzle
Life has become ever more complicated, and property development is no exception. It has always been an endeavour with finely balanced risks and rewards, and in which profitability is influenced by a range of factors, some easier to control and predict than others. The graph below of prime City of London rents, capital values and construction price inflation over the last 30 years (figure 1) shows office development in the capital has faced ever‑increasing cost pressures and values that have been supported by yield compression.
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By Belinda Smart19 January 2021
Employment initiatives from Hire Association Europe and Event Hire Association (HAE EHA) have been launched to attract talent to the UK’s rental sector.
The measures, which include 40 six-month work placements across England and Wales, and are designed to help mitigate the long-term effects of Covid-19 on employment and the economy.
Adrian Belton
Adrian Belton became Chair of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Board on 1 August 2019.
Adrian was Chief Executive of the Government’s Food and Environment Research Agency (
FERA) from 2009 to 2014, having established it from a 4-way merger including the Central Science Laboratory (where he was Chief Executive from 2008) and the
UK Government Decontamination Service.
As Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Training Board from 2014 to 2016 he stepped down from full time Executive work to pursue a non-Executive career. He has been Chair of Stockport
NHS Foundation Trust since 2017 and is currently also a lay member of the Council of the University of Sheffield where he sits on the Audit Committee and chairs the Estates Committee. He previously chaired the Board of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment from 2008 to 2013.