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The construction industry has come a long way – gone are the days where working in construction meant having to get your steel toe boots dirty all day. In today’s construction industry, there are over 200 different job roles available and the ways in which you can enter the sector are extremely diverse, too. You can do an apprenticeship, go to University, join a Graduate Scheme – the world is your oyster. Perhaps the greatest thing about the industry is the potential to progress; many directors in large construction businesses never went to University and started out as apprentices. 

From building new SMART energy efficient and sustainable homes, education building, healthcare facilities and workplaces. To developing our transport, agritech, tourism and leisure facilities of the future, none of it will happen without construction.  

Support organisations in construction

Go Construct

The Go Construct website showcases the many career opportunities available in construction and the built environment. It is funded by the CITB levy and led by the industry.

Construction Industry Training Board

CITB help the construction industry attract talent and to support skills development. CITB is an executive non-departmental public body in charge of its own budget and activities.

Chartered Institute of Building

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is a worldwide professional body that represents construction and property professionals who work within the built environment.

Constructing Excellence

Constructing Excellence is a United Kingdom construction industry membership organisation created in 2003 and draws its member organisations from across the industry supply chain.

Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors

RICS is a professional body promoting and enforcing the highest international standards in the valuation, management and development of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure.

Institute of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.

Women into Construction

Women into Construction provide bespoke support to women wishing to work in the construction industry, and assist contractors to recruit highly motivated, trained women, helping to reduce skills gaps and create a more gender-equal workforce.

The Future for Construction

The future for construction in Cornwall is exceptionally bright. Whether that’s delivering renewable energy facilities on or offshore, together with the necessary maintenance and support infrastructure that will be required to support them. Or building the facilities and infrastructure that will underpin Cornwall’s Spaceport and growing satellite and space industry, it will be the construction sector that enables it to happen. 

Construction workers of the future will be digitally literate, as comfortable with using hi-tech autonomous plant, or robotic equipment via a tablet or computer, as their predecessors would have been in using traditional tools. However, we will still need to maintain sustainable skills in the traditional construction trades that will be necessary to support building maintenance, retrofitting and heritage skills for the future. 

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Construction Labour Market Information

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