Building engineering training programmes must be broad-based, so that apprentices and students acquire not just the skills and competences of this sector, but also ‘fully understand the operation of the entire construction supply chain’.
So said Andy Sneyd, President of the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES), at the annual B&ES President’s Luncheon at the Skyloft, Millbank Tower, in London, on 4 September. He argued that such broad-based training was ‘essential if the UK construction industry is to achieve and maintain genuinely world-class status’.
