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By Catherine Evans
image captionYoung people in Wales should be eyeing-up opportunities in the construction industry, says the CITB
If you ve moved house or are planning a renovation, you might have found your builder s diary is already pretty full.
Demand in the housing market and for home improvements, driven by the pandemic, have led to a boom in the construction industry.
But there aren t enough tradespeople to meet demand - and nearly 10,000 extra workers are needed in Wales.
By 2025, Welsh construction firms will need to recruit 9,250 new workers just to meet demand, according to the findings of the Construction Skills Network, published on Wednesday.
By Tom Lowe2021-05-28T05:00:00+01:00
CLC launched initiative in March with more details due later this year
Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds has said the government and the construction industry are working closer together than at any time in the past four decades over a new skills programme which aims to transform the sector over the coming years.
The government is currently looking into how it can attract hundreds of thousands of new workers into the industry to carry out its ‘levelling up’ agenda, which includes major infrastructure projects such as HS2, upgrades to existing rail networks and improvements to town centres across England.