Infrastructure Skills & Social Value
Get the next generation of skills and contribute to your social value commitments.
Transform your Construction business at low costs
HR Pillar partners with training providers, intermediary employers, and funding partners; to give you the access to benefit from trained and qualified individuals from around the UK from Fibre, Utilities, Plant, Groundworks, Trades and more.
With the sector facing a severe workforce deficit driven by an ageing population, post-Brexit migration changes, and a lack of new entrants. Reports indicate the industry needs roughly one million additional workers by 2035 to meet national housing and infrastructure goals.
The Economic Impacts are Project Delays, Rising Costs, and Staff Burnout. With the impacted roles including: carpenters, plasterers, electricians, Civil engineers, and lack of workers trained in green retrofitting, digital building information modeling (BIM), and sustainable technologies.
The route causes of the skills shortages are:
- Ageing Workforce: Over 35% of current construction workers are past age 50
- Low Youth Retention: Only about 19% of the construction workforce is under 25, with few students actively considering trade careers.
- Apprenticeship Gaps: Fewer young people register for entry-level vocational schemes compared to pre-pandemic levels.
With the need to boost skills and the UK economy simultaneously; the demand on Construction Agencies, Subbies, and Main Contractors to link Social Value hiring to project demands, will grow.
See below how our partners can help.
