Construction Projects Looking Good For Trade Skills Training!
It’s not all bad news in the UK economy! In between news of the country’s slow and painful climb out of recession, there have been announcements by Government and private planners of exciting new construction industry projects. The good news is they are almost guaranteed to provide solid future employment for electricians, plumbers and other trade skills personnel such as plasterers and bricklayers.
Here are some recent examples of newbuild projects that will bound to be recruiting for trained and qualified electricians and plumbers:
Barratts Developers report an improvement in the house building market by a 43 per cent yearly growth in forward sales of its houses in the six months leading to December 2009. The company also revealed that, with margins growing, it expects to deliver 12,000 units during the next financial year.
In the largest spend on local housing for at least twenty years, the Government has announced a £ 500m public investment to build more than 4,000 new energy efficient council homes for 8,000 people in a programme for 73 councils covering every region of England. Importantly, for the first time, all councils receiving Government funds will be required to offer apprenticeship and local job recruitment schemes, creating 7,500 jobs and around 100 new apprenticeship places.
Thirty-five of the 73 councils receiving funding will extend their council house building work which is already underway, while 38 councils receive this government backing for the first time.
Education building schemes are also in the frame in 2010! Partnerships for Schools have also recently announced 12 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects are shortly to begin across the UK. In the early months of 2010, refurbishment or rebuilding work will get underway on schools in Darlington, Brent, Norfolk, Wakefield, Devon, Kingston & Croydon, Sefton, Havering, Lancashire, Plymouth, Tameside and Warrington.
According to Partnerships For Schools, “…delivering new schools facilities … is set to help safeguard tens of thousands of jobs on the ground in the construction and related industries.”
Further long-term prospects for those training to qualify as an electrician or plumber were also given an extra boost when it was also recently announced by Partnerships for Schools that £12 million is to be invested by the government to install new smart energy meters in institutions across Britain.
Focusing on the capital, the London Gateway project , currently standing at £1.5 billion, has begun construction, driving up an enormous potential for job creation in the South East. Latest estimates forecast a total requirement for 36,000 skilled personnel with 12,000 short-term opportunities to workers in construction and logistics.
