Consultation on home building skills

People from across the home building industry are being called upon to respond to a consultation to help tackle the skills agenda – one of the biggest challenges facing the industry over the next decade.  While this agenda impacts across the construction sector, home builders are at the forefront.

The consultation on Home Building Skills – an Action Plan to 2020 has been developed by NHBC, Zero Carbon Hub and ConstructionSkills. The initiative will identify key issues, potential impacts on the home building sector and ways of addressing the short, medium and longer term skills challenges.  People from across the home-building industry are urged to respond to this consultation to help tackle the skills agenda – one of the biggest challenges facing the industry over the next decade. The consultation will be online until 31st May 2010.

Once the consultation closes, the findings will be developed into an online hub, which all those involved in home-building – whether site managers, architects, bricklayers or others – will be able to use to establish what training support they need, and where to find it.