Another Monday and another group of excited tiling students ready to get some new skills and possibly start a new career… Week after week at Able Skills we have many students looking to make a big change in their life and change their career after spending years in the same job. As the weeks […]
Our new plumbing centre is due to open this coming Monday and everyone is chipping in to help it get ready, even Able Skills director, Gary Measures is picking up a paint brush to help out! A new group of Level 2 Plumbing students will be the first to use the facilities within our […]
The construction of our new Electrical and Plumbing centre is in full flow… With the centre due to be open at the end of April, the construction is coming along very nicely and it is starting to really take the shape of a first class training facility for Able Skills to run more fantastic […]
As it is very well known, the skills gap in the construction industry is a huge problem and it is preventing construction work from being completed. However, female workers within the industry is on the rise and it may cut the skills gap. For many years construction trades have been extremely male dominated, however […]
Carpentry has been around for a long, long time, in fact it is one of the oldest trades around and it is still vitally important to all building work. However, tools have developed along with technology and power tools have become extremely popular, but which are better hand tools or power tools? There isn’t […]
February marked the worst performance in the UK’s construction industry for 10 months and the worst performance since the rise in housebuilding in the UK in the summer of 2013. Construction companies and other contractors are growing in concern that the industry is starting to slow up due to the difficulty to find skilled […]
With the lack of skilled workers in the construction industry and a growth in construction work across the UK, it is meaning that construction companies will need to employ a quarter of a million new workers over the next five years. The construction industry is set to see its biggest growth since the financial […]
The ‘Housing Crisis’ in the UK is still a huge problem and the lack of quality and affordable homes in the South East of England is a worry. The plan to build one million new homes is being slowed due to the lack of skilled workers on the building sites. The plans to build more […]
French contractor Bouygues has inked a deal to deliver Battersea Power Station’s third redevelopment phase, making the contractor the linchpin in the UK’s biggest ever building contract. High bidders Bouygues beat shortlisted competition Balfour Beatty to land the £1bn+ construction contract. The French company will follow up the work of Carillion’s phase one, Sanska’s phase […]
A competition watchdog commissioned by the Government has drawn up plans to prevent cement companies from sending out blanket price rise letters across the construction industry. During a review of competition in the sector, the watchdog found cause to push for greater competition in the sector, which has long been subject to high cement prices […]
“For too long we’ve trained too many hairdressers and not enough bricklayers” is the current gripe of the Local Council Association (LCA), which this month published fresh analysis of the levels of trades training taking place in the UK. According to the LCA, the UK is facing a serious skills shortage, with too few trainees […]
A legal change designed to prevent UK contractors from using cheap migrant labour has been slipped into a new directive launched to help enforce the EU posted workers directive. The original EU posted workers directive has been in place for a number of years, introduced to stop posted workers being paid less than native workers, […]
