Sector Skills Insights: Construction Introduction

Transcript:Sector Skills Insights: Construction Introduction:
Sector Skills Insights: Construction Introduction The UK Commission is working to transform the UK’s approach to investing in skills to help secure jobs and growth. Key to our ambition is the need to encourage greater employer ownership of skills, working to secure long term sustainable partnerships. This slide pack and accompanying evidence report present the case for more employers in this sector to invest in the skills of their people. It does so by presenting real-life, skill-based business solutions that have been used by leading employers to tackle the performance challenges they face and by drawing on examples of the investments being made by the UK Commission through its investment funds. There are several determinants of employers’ skills needs and training behaviour including firm size, strategy and location but it is by sector which the strongest variations appear. Hence this work focuses on the Construction sector. Slide packs and reports are also available for a number of other sectors from: www.ukces.org.uk Each of the sectors are important to the economy in terms of employment, productivity or their future potential. For information about this slide pack and accompanying report please contact: Zoey Breuer (zoey.breuer@ukces.org.uk Source information can be found in the notes section of each slide Storyboard What are key skills challenges in the construction sector? The importance of construction sector today Tackling these performance challenges: Growth through skills Performance challenge (3) People management Performance challenge (4) Attracting talent Performance challenge (2) Investing in workforce skills 3 Benefits to business Performance challenge (1) Strategic management Imagine where the sector could be tomorrow What is the construction sector? SIC 41, 42, 43 and 71 4 The sector covers a wide variety of activity, from building HS2 and skyscrapers, to housing estates and routine repair and maintenance: Infrastructure Housing Commercial Industrial Repair and maintenance The variety of activities gives rise to multifarious skill needs, including: Skilled trades in: Heating and ventilation Plumbing Electrical engineering Welding / metal workers Glaziers Bricklayers Carpenters Professional and managerial skills related to: Civil engineering Structural engineering Construction management Surveying Financial planning Architecture What Key Skills Challenges are being Faced Overall Construction matters The sector today Third largest UK sector by employment, 2.9 million workers (9% of UK workforce) Value of output 81 billion in 2008 almost double the figure in 1999 (6% of UK GDP) One of the largest construction sectors in Europe (by employment, enterprises, and gross