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Constructionarium Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation offering a unique and immersive hands-on learning experience for students and professionals in the built environment sector. Since its inception in 2003, over 14,000 delegates have participated in its programs, developing practical skills and gaining invaluable insights into the complexities of construction projects. As the only CITB-Approved Training Organisation (ATO) of its kind, Constructionarium’s…
A brand new in-house designed board with brief information on the Considerate Constructors Scheme ‘Spotlight on..’ learning toolkits and a QR code to the scheme’s e-learning courses is displayed on this project. This is used to further encourage the workforce to engage with the CCS e-learning courses and further educate themselves on the Scheme and the relevant topics including EDI…
Our e-learning station is located within the induction room on site. It provides us an area to allow operatives and subcontractors to carry out e-learning provided by the Robertson E-Academy and e-learning provided by the Considerate Constructor Scheme. Once the e-learning is completed we place all certificates onto the wall outside the Induction Room which allows the site to see…
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act requires companies to demonstrate the actions being taken to ensure that modern slavery is not occurring within the supply chain. Every year they must produce a statement that quantifies the activities we have undertaken to help meet this objective. At Mace we have developed our policies in response to this legislation and begun taking positive…
During July of this year, Willmott Partnership Homes held a community event within our central London office. The 5 day programme was delivered to eight young people who were looking to start a career in the construction industry. Participants for the event were supplied from a number of key support groups operating across London. These included The Princes Trust, Women…
During the pandemic it was hard for young people to obtain driving lessons and tests. Therefore there was a huge backlog of young apprentices not able to progress this. In order to help them, this contractor has teamed up with Developing Young Workforce and the Mid Argyll Youth Development Services where funding was available for driving lessons. By helping apprentices…
The construction industry are very keen to re-use materials, for instance this contractor has re-used plywood from hoarding to build temporary steps or pallets to make seating. However, there are other thing we should be considering to re-use, last year, over 470 people die while waiting for a transplant and the NHS estimates there to be over 6,000 people on…
Working with a training company, this contractor conducted the one of the very first VR training sessions in Ireland. The VR training utilises advanced technology to give users a safe but real and immersive user experience. This course was used for upskilling the current crane operators and slingers and also give site management a better understanding of crane operations as…
Common Sense Self Defence led an informative and action-packed session for all female staff across the project whether site based, working from home or off-site. This was implemented as the final part of the contractors 3-part plan for women’s wellbeing as their team returns to site, which has included focuses on period dignity and domestic violence prevention. The instructor began…
This contractor have been working collaboratively with Lambeth College and London South Bank University (LSBU), to pilot a programme which aims to upskill diverse members of their workforce who are foreign and often struggle with the English language, providing them with the opportunity to learn and feel more comfortable engaging with other people on site. This voluntary course will also…
This contractor is working on a the new prison Leicestershire for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) as part of their new prison transformation programme. The MoJ have set Social Value KPI’s focusing on supporting prison leavers into employment. At this project the target is to create 100 jobs through the project with 25% of these to be for prison leavers…
This contractor in partnership with Australian based company Mentorloop, have rolled out an approach to improve mentoring support across the project. The cloud-based system uses specialised algorithms to provide the best possible matches across the team, creating matches which otherwise may not have been obvious. It can be accessed from anywhere and provides updates and alerts to both mentors and…
The project team recently delivered a virtual work experience session for three women that have shown interest in Construction Health & Safety. Two women came through Women into Construction and one lady through West London College and their three week Sector Skills Academy programme. After initial support given to both stakeholder and their programmes, they were able to provide work…
On this project they have undergone four online sessions with external organisation Hope for Justice speaking to their team and contractor supervisors about raising awareness of Modern Slavery with specific reference to the construction industry. They had attendance of around 80 people from site, and was followed up by multi-lingual posters and hand outs to share across site. Since these…
HSS Training has worked with the contractor and have implemented complementary training across several of this contractors projects in the UK and as such a bespoke commercial agreement was established to support this proposition. Additionally, they had the support from the client, to reserve the rebate funds to enhance onsite training for their operatives improving general training on subjects that…