At the start of the year, CITB’s Construction Skills Network (CSN) survey forecasted that on the basis of 2.2% growth in industry output, construction would need 36,000 new recruits a year over the next five years. With growth now predicted to run at 2.9% over the period 2015-19, the predicted number of recruits needed has been raised nearly 12%.
CITB chairman James Wates said: “Skills are the oxygen of the sector and construction needs to invest in its workforce - upskilling those who already work in the industry and attracting new talented recruits to offset those who are due to retire in the next five years."
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