{"id":51560,"date":"2019-01-25T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=51560"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:32:43","slug":"csic-citb-construction-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/csic-citb-construction-skills\/51560\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIC and CITB collaborate to tackle construction skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs-ic.org\/\">Construction Scotland Innovation Centre<\/a> (CSIC) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/\">Construction Industry Training Board<\/a> (CITB) have formed a new partnership to help address the shortage of innovation skills in the construction industry<\/h2>\n<p>CSIC sits at the heart of the Scottish construction innovation ecosystem. CITB is the industry training board for the construction sector.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will create a strategic relationship to help identify and deliver the future skills and training the construction industry needs to help it innovate more, resulting in improved productivity across the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will incentivise and support innovation by providing access and training provision for industry, further education providers and public sector partners within the Innovation Factory, CSIC\u2019s 35,000 sq ft hub that provides an open access, low cost, safe environment for partners to access \u00a32m of state-of-the-art equipment.<\/p>\n<h3>The collaboration will also result in:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The production of a joint research programme, which will stimulate future skills and training solutions where demand and need are proven.<\/li>\n<li>An increase in training provision across Scotland by providing industry and construction stakeholders with access to innovative products and workforce upskilling.<\/li>\n<li>Marketing and tracking of the use of offsite construction across Scotland, and developing courses and funding to incentivise skills and training.<\/li>\n<li>Benchmarking and marketing productivity projects, to demonstrate\u00a0how innovative processes can reduce costs, timescales and waste.<\/li>\n<li>Developing courses, modules and frameworks which are relevant to the industry, and where applicable are incentivised by CITB grant support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rohan Bush, Head of Public Partnerships &amp; Future Workforce at CSIC said: \u201cAt CSIC we work collaboratively with the industry to develop the future skills our sector needs. Our objective is to support the construction workforce to become more innovative, dynamic and globally competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similarly, CITB has identified the need to develop future skills and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/citb-construction-digital-technology\/47961\/\"> innovation within the workforce<\/a> as part of its reform programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking together to realise these mutual aims makes perfect sense, and I look forward to building on previous collaborations with CITB through this new strategic partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Beale, Chief Executive at CITB added: \u201cOur new partnership with CSIC will enable us\u00a0to work together to help the Scottish construction industry develop the future skills it needs to boost productivity, attract new entrants, and meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/scotlands-affordable-housing-programme\/47428\/\">challenges of a changing economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation is at the heart of this partnership and we look forward to finding new ways to help the industry in Scotland take full advantage of the training and technology that can transform the way we work.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSIC and CITB have formed a new partnership to help address the shortage of innovation skills in the construction industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[624,676,661,780,273,592,660,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-citb","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-hr","10":"tag-collaboration","11":"tag-research-innovation","12":"tag-skills","13":"tag-skills-shortage","14":"tag-training"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CSIC and CITB collaborate to tackle construction skills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CSIC and CITB have formed a new partnership to help address the shortage of innovation skills and training in the construction industry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/csic-citb-construction-skills\/51560\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CSIC and CITB collaborate to tackle construction skills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CSIC and CITB have formed a new partnership to help address the shortage of innovation skills and training in the construction industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/csic-citb-construction-skills\/51560\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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