Skills shortages, planning restrictions and the need for cultural change were the key topics arising from a high level debate attended by leading voices from around the industry, as UK Construction Week’s expert advisory panel met for the first time. With momentum behind the exhibition building exponentially, the advisory panel brings together a team of motivated and inspirational figures from … [Read more...]
Cemex Uk Set On Civils Expo
Leading building materials supplier CEMEX UK has signed up as the latest exhibitor at Civils Expo, the UK’s only dedicated event for the civil engineering and construction sector. Civils Expo will be part of the Build Show at UK Construction Week, taking place at the Birmingham NEC later this year. Taking centre stage at Civils Expo with a large custom-built stand, materials supplier and … [Read more...]
Uk Construction Week Puts Training In The Spotlight
With apprentices and house building top of the agenda at the state opening of Parliament, UK Construction Week has announced a string of training focused content at the show this October. Outlining the new Conservative government’s plans for the coming parliamentary term, the Queen revealed ambitious targets during her speech last week, which include building 200,000 starter homes over the next … [Read more...]
Competitions a route to future business success
...say parents and teachers as Team UK announced for WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 New research reveals that parents and teachers view competitive activities as key to young people’s successful career development as Team UK announced for WorldSkills São Paulo 2015 More than nine in ten parents and teachers think it is important for all children to experience competition during their … [Read more...]
Uk Construction Week To Host The Best Of British Homes
UK Construction Week is pleased to announce that it will be hosting The Sunday Times Great British Homes Awards at this year’s event, taking place at the Birmingham NEC in October. Leading the way in pioneering home design and build solutions, the well-respected awards champion design excellence in homebuilding, with a strong focus on new technologies and best practice. Entries are now invited … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #2
Today was the first proper day of venetian plastering, yesterday was great but we spent a lot of the time getting settled and today was the day we really got cracking. The first task was to get the end wall base coated and this was just a warm up for the rest of the day just to get you in to the swing of things. We use Veneziano Medio as a base coat and put it on in small random strokes. It is … [Read more...]
Venetian Plastering Training Day #1
Venetian plastering has always been on my list of skill sets that I wanted to learn and this week I have the pleasure of bing the first group of plasterers to go through the new Gold Trowel training facility in the north of England in Bury. I live so far south that if I was any souther, I would get wet feet so the journey up north was a long one but my sister is this way, so I get to stop at her … [Read more...]
Worldskills training At the Construction Skills Academy Ltd
As part of their ongoing training working towards WorldSkills Sao Paulo the three members of the Plastering and Drywall Systems spent a week's training at the Construction skills academy Marske. Unfortunately I was not able to get there to see them this time but the pictures look great and I am looking forward to seeing more from them over the coming months. Read about my worldskills visit … [Read more...]
Worldskills Training At Chichester College
I was invited by Peter Moore to come along to the Worldskills Training At Chichester College as this is just up the road from me, and it would be silly not to make the effort to head there even though I was pushing hard to get my renovation project under wraps and finished. WorldSkills São Paulo 2015 takes place from 11-16 August 2015 and is the largest skills competition in the world. As part … [Read more...]
A Day Out At The Skillbuild Finals 2014
Skillbuild is an event that happens every year, and you have plastering apprentices competing to be crowned the UK's best plastering apprentice. I have been a couple of times now and have also had the pleasure of going to some of the regional finals earlier on in the year. The Skillbuild finals were held again at the NEC and were a part of the Skills Show which is here to help young people get on … [Read more...]
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