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Skills & education stream
The stream will cover topics such as vocational pathways, apprenticeships, flexible degree options, and continuous professional development.
My route into construction … Nasrin Sadeghi, structural engineer at Symmetrys
The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Sean O’Regan, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Thomas Edgcumbe, managing director, Aggregate Industries
The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Sean van Buiten, assistant building manager, Willmott Dixon
The industry includes an impressive range and variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Kate Sadler, assistant quantity surveyor, McLaren
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Richard Wilson, cost manager, Turner & Townsend Alinea
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Camilla Fletcher, senior acoustic engineer, Max Fordham
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Paul Devlin, chief operating officer at Causeway Technologies
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … James Preston, site manager, McLaren
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Parissa Kokabi, assistant cost consultant, Currie & Brown
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but unless you are on the inside it can be hard to know how to break in, let alone progress to the top. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their often surprising career twists and turns
My route into construction … Michelle Zompi, head of RLB Digital
The industry includes an impressive variety of roles – but it can be hard to know how to break in. In this new series, we talk to professionals about their career twists and turns
Can T levels help to solve construction’s skills crisis?
Ben Flatman takes a look at how T levels might help to change the construction education landscape
Building launches competition to find ideas from the next generation
Building the Future Commission announces Future Thinkers Award
Can architects restore faith in their technical expertise?
With major changes to architectural education under way, the Building the Future Commission speaks to professionals from across property, architecture and education about the potential for a reinvigorated profession
Design codes are coming but will they deliver?
Last week Berkeley Homes went to war with Michael Gove over the design quality of a scheme in Kent, but compulsory local design codes are meant to help avoid such conflict. Will they work?
Tackling the east of England’s construction skills challenge
The Building the Future Commission kicked off its series of regional roundtables with a trip to Cambridge to talk about skills with construction experts from across the east of England.
Time for Plan BEE: collaborative learning that helps deliver a more competent industry
Can cross-disciplinary courses help engender collaborative working and greater levels of professional competence? Ben Flatman finds out
Meet the commissioners: Neal Shasore
Neal Shasore discusses the rise of diversity and social value networks, a lack of industry communication and the need for rapid change
Building the Future Young Persons’ Advisory panel launched
The panel’s aim is to provide feedback from the perspective of construction’s next generation of leaders
A new era of radical thinking: ‘We need disruption not change’
A round-up of views from Constructing Excellence’s conference, part of the Building the Future Commission’s search of industry-led solutions
Building the Future Commission: introducing the education and skills stream
We will consider how to reach out to young people to attract new talent as well as at standards of professionalism and solutions to ensure we are equipped for a green economy
Upcoming in the Building the Future Think Tank
24 January: Building the Future Think Tank breakfast (invite only)
26 March: Building the Future Think Tank East of England roundtable (invite only)
18 June: Building the Future Think Tank North-east roundtable (invite only)
25 June: Building the Future Think Tank North-west roundtablee (invite only)
18 September: Building the Future Conference (open)
26 September: Building the Future Think Tank Midlands roundtable (invite only)
23 October: Building the Future Think Tank Wales roundtable (invite only)
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