The government’s ambitions to build 1.5 million homes, upgrade home energy standards, and deliver a £725 billion long-term infrastructure pipeline will depend on a significant expansion to the construction workforce, and stronger employer involvement in training the next generation of workers, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).
Four new Freemen were admitted to the Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants (WCoBM) at a ceremony on 2 July, taking the total number of Liverymen and Freemen to 263.
As Andy Burnham prepares to take office as prime minister, Ian Dean, Managing Director of Holcim UK, says he has a genuine opportunity to reset Britain's approach to construction and infrastructure, by breaking a fifteen-year cycle of political churn that has done more to hold back growth than any shortage of funding or ambition.
Screwfix and Google have joined forces in a first-of-its-kind partnership to help the nation’s trades use AI tools to grow their businesses. The collaboration aims to empower the country’s builders, plumbers, and sparkies to hammer through their paperwork, reclaim their time, and take their businesses to the next level.
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