With construction being a predominantly practical, hands-on profession – an interview, formal setting can seem a big contrast to the working on-site environment you may …
Feeling the Heat: Tips for Working in Hot Weather
STANDFIRST: Alex Minett, Head of Product & Markets at CHAS, shares some tips for working well in hot weather. While temperatures have been variable in …
World Youth Skills Day
As of March 2020, workplaces and schools were ordered to close and exams were cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many feared the education of …
Making the Transition into Construction Project Management
Plant Planet Careers are seeing many project manager roles filter through on our careers job board and so we wanted to take a minute and …
World Wellbeing Week
This week is World Wellbeing Week. Wellbeing Week is the Mental Health Foundation’s new fundraising initiative. Both mental and physical health are important factors in wellbeing. Held …
Construction’s First Industry-Wide Flexible Working Pilot Finds Wellbeing Soars
Rates of wellbeing improve across the board – with no negative impact on budget or deadline – Results from the Timewise Construction Pioneers programme are published today. …
Building Equality in the Construction Industry
June is LGBT Pride Month! – The construction industry has come a long way over the past decade to become more inclusive of women and minority …
Transitioning Back to Work Out of the Pandemic
Many construction businesses work towards further reopening as the UK anxiously awaits for further restrictions to be lifted as it is announced that the final …
Kubota Welcomes Construction Industry Employment Boom
Kubota, the UK’s leading manufacturer of construction machinery, has heralded new findings from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), which suggests that as many as …
Britain builds back: Construction will need 216,800 new workers by 2025 to meet demand
Construction has bounced back quicker than expected from the Covid-19 pandemic and the industry will reach 2019 levels of output in 2022. By 2025, the …