Construction
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
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.
Construction Pathways
Careers in Construction
Construction Postcards
Please find our new collection of engaging Construction & Built Environment Role Postcards. These are designed to give professionals and employers CIoS sector specific collateral when visiting educational careers events. The cards serve as a hook for conversation and the QR codes will allow pupils and their parent carers to investigate roles further. You can also watch and share our sector engagment short films here, which are shown at the top of this page, and access an editable Powerpoint to structure a class or assembly talk which is linked down below.
Construction and Built Environment Employers/Professionals in Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly:
Please feel free to download and use these resources to aid your outreach and engagement with schools and other stakeholders. For PDF print versions, or sets of pre-printed cards (while stocks last), please contact [email protected] with ‘Construction Postcards Please’ in the subject line.