UK Commission for Employment and Skills
The Offsite Construction Show, held at ExCel London, is the UKs first exhibition focused on offsite solutions for all markets. The event is being hosted by Buildoffsite, one of our project partners. There will be a UKCES stand throughout Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 October, showcasing the valuable learning and insights that have been gathered from 5 employer-led projects. These projects brought together offsite construction employers and partners to address skills gaps, by improving collaboration and providing better training opportunities for both new and existing workers.
Our seminar A 10 year change programme: Developing our skills for the challenges ahead will be in Seminar Hall 2 from 11am Thursday 14 October. Well be sharing what we have learnt from our 5 pilot projects on tackling skills shortages in the offsite construction industry. In each of these projects our partners were able to develop various products which have the potential to achieve real change in the sector, and demonstrate the importance of sectoral collaboration. This was the first Productivity Challenge in our UK Futures Programme (UKFP) an ongoing initiative which co-invests with business and other partners to develop and pilot innovative solutions to long-standing or emerging workforce development issues.
Dr Bill McGinnis CBE will be chairing a panel which includes representatives of the organisations who were involved in these projects - Prof. Bernard Williams, IFPL Ltd; Oliver Rogan, Hadley Steel Framing; Dr. Robert Hairstans, Edinburgh Napier University; Rob Francis, Skanska; Alan Clucas, Laing ORourke. Attendees will benefit from their insights and well as a first look at our brochure detailing the projects achievements and lessons, which we will be releasing in full next week.
If you are attending the show do come and ask us about UKCESs work at our stand or attend the seminar on Thursday. If you arent able to attend, we will be livetweeting: you can follow updates on our Twitter feed @ukces or via the hashtag #OSCS15.