£15 Million investment by Building College in Leeds
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Leeds College of Building is investing circa £15 million to create a new state of the art 8,000 m2 facility on land purchased from Yorkshire Design Group at Hunslet Lane and Black Bull Street in Leeds City Centre.
The deal will enable the College to build an exciting new education and training facility that will serve a large proportion of its 7,500 students. Ian Billyard, Principal at Leeds College of Building says: “This is extremely good news for our students, staff and the construction industry as a whole. This is the start of our consolidation of the six sites we currently operate from into this new purpose built development, along with our North Street and Millwright Street sites.
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Oldham apprentices on the road with subsidised driving lessons
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Apprentices working for Oldham based construction and regeneration company Emanuel Whittaker have been given the chance to take subsidised driving lessons, thanks to an initiative from Procure Plus, the company’s procurement partner.
Lee Bradbury, Health, Safety & Environment Manager for Emanuel Whittaker said: “Our trainees are not office based and are regularly asked to work on sites all across Greater Manchester. These are young men and women and chances are they have not yet had the opportunity, or the cash, to pass their driving tests.
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Mind the gap
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The UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has been awarded a Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) Growth Recognition Award, for the work carried out to improve business skills and knowledge within the erector community.
The training, run in association with CITB, involves fifteen UKTFA erector members. It is designed to prepare businesses for an upturn in the country’s economic outlook, ensuring they are in the best position to capitalise on increased demand for their services.
ACoRP on the up with ladder training
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Two key members of staff from ACoRP, a federation of 50 community rail partnerships and rail promotion groups, are now fully competent in the use of fall protection systems, following specialist bespoke training from Eurosafe Solutions.
Training manager Andy Jennings delivered a bespoke fall protection course to events organiser Hazel Bonner and operations manager Brian Barnsley to ensure they were fully competent in the use of their new ladder system.
Eurosafe Solutions installed the 9m ladder at the organisation’s new headquarters, which is a renovated water tower on Huddersfield Railway Station, known as ‘The Old Water Tower’.
New training course for scaffolders to be launched
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A new training course for would-be scaffolders is to be launched.
Astra Access Safety Training is offering unemployed people in the Yorkshire area the opportunity to build a future in the scaffolding industry.
The project will recruit trainees for a diploma level 1 scaffolding course which provides the skills and experience required to move on to an CISRS (Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme) qualification after finding employment in the scaffolding and construction related industries.
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