{"id":72685,"date":"2020-03-02T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=72685"},"modified":"2020-03-02T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:03:41","slug":"offsite-construction-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/offsite-construction-skills\/72685\/","title":{"rendered":"New training programme to boost offsite construction skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A major training programme to help grow best practice and skills in offsite construction has been launched by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs-ic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Scotland Innovation Centre<\/a> (CSIC) and project partners<\/h2>\n<p>The Offsite Ready project will be launched at CSIC on 23 April and will include a series of collaborative events and online modules to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/citb-offsite-construction\/58638\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offsite construction skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following that there will be a number of events delivered by MOBIE across England and by Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Industry Training Board<\/a> (CITB), will offer a range of free-to-access online learning resources and face-to-face training events intended to build capacity in the UK education and skills system, and ensure colleges, universities and training providers are well placed to respond to the growth in offsite construction in the UK.<\/p>\n<h3>Offsite training<\/h3>\n<p>Offsite Ready will directly engage with employers, training providers, contractors, educational bodies and leading innovation organisations across the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive suite of online flexible training modules will guarantee the project outputs are accessible \u2018anytime, anywhere\u2019 and will be available to book and download from the Offsite Ready project website from April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the \u2018train-the-trainer\u2019 programme as many as 500 training professionals will have received the accredited training across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being led by CSIC and delivered in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobie.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ministry of Building and Education<\/a> (MOBIE), <a href=\"https:\/\/cwic.wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Wales Innovation Centre<\/a> (CWIC), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edinburgh Napier University<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Glasgow College<\/a> (COGC) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classofyourown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Class of Your Own<\/a> (COYO).<\/p>\n<h3>Offsite Ready project programme<\/h3>\n<p>Topics covered in the programme include \u2013 design functions, procurement functions, cost management, project and site management, onsite logistics and assembly, and follow on and upstream trades.<\/p>\n<p>George Clarke, MOBIE founder and Channel 4 presenter, said: \u201cThe Offsite Ready programme is a really exciting way to really move forward with offsite construction which is so important not only to the construction industry but to the future of the built environment, the way we build our places and spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how much more efficient and better for the environment building offsite can be, yet in the UK less than 5% of construction uses\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/offsite-construction-engagement\/71103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offsite\u00a0techniques<\/a>, compared to around 9% in Germany, 12-15% in Japan and 20% in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOffsite building can bring the cost of construction down, can offer 30% quicker build time, and is one of the ways the industry can get to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/net-zero-energy-homes-exeter\/71865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">net-zero carbon<\/a> emission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s a crucially important area where we really need to be making change and that\u2019s what this forward-thinking project is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Good, chief executive of CSIC, commented: \u201cThe construction industry is facing a period of significant change. At CSIC, we want everyone involved in the construction industry to look to the future and do things better \u2013 and that includes tackling our housing shortage through modern, more efficient building techniques, like offsite construction. \u00a0Key to this is improving the quality and consistency of training in offsite construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Offsite Ready project was developed in response to research which has shown that offsite construction can increase productivity and reduce costs and timescales compared with traditional methods, with nearly half of construction industry employers expecting to use offsite techniques within the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Offsite construction in Scotland<\/h3>\n<p>Ian Hughes, strategic partnerships director, CITB Scotland, added: \u201cThis is a crucial time for the growth of offsite construction in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The post-Brexit effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/immigration-system-construction\/72061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tighter immigration rules<\/a> mean that government, industry and training providers must work together to lessen its impact on the loss of skills in Scotland. This includes growing investment in the domestic workforce to drive productivity, attract talent and improve home-grown skill levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Offsite Ready training modules are a fantastic example of much-needed training in Modern Methods of Construction in Scotland to help our industry thrive into the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Offsite Ready training modules will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs-ic.org\/events\/2020\/april\/23rd-april\/offsite-ready-launch-conference\/\">available from April 2020<\/a> through an online training portal and the training events will take place in England, Scotland and Wales from April to July 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major training programme to help grow best practice and skills in offsite construction has been launched by Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and project partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[942],"tags":[624,676,916,696,592,660,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-citb","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","10":"tag-offsite-construction","11":"tag-skills","12":"tag-skills-shortage","13":"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>New training programme to boost offsite construction skills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A major training programme to help grow best practice and skills in offsite construction has been launched by Construction Scotland Innovation Centre\" \/>\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\/mmc-news\/offsite-construction-skills\/72685\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New training programme to boost offsite construction skills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A major training programme to help grow best practice and skills in offsite construction has been launched by Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and project partners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/offsite-construction-skills\/72685\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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