Morgan Sindall secure seven work experience placements at Okehampton Primary School

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We have taken on seven work experience placements so far during our build at Okehampton Primary School, including three from The Royal Marines Charity, one from the Breakthrough Transformation Trust and three from BuildForce.

The Royal Marines Charity supports wounded personnel transitioning from the military into a new meaningful career, and focus on providing placements for those seeking construction experience.

BuildForce aims to inspire and enable service leavers and veterans to pursue careers in construction. BuildForce provides 1-2-1 mentoring that guides you through the entire process, from learning about the huge range of opportunities in the construction sector to training and securing employment.

Morgan Sindall secure seven work experience placements at Okehampton Primary School

Work experience leads to a permanent position whilst helping to engage with and inspire construction’s next generation

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One of the great benefits of work experience is that it brings with it the opportunity to secure something permanent, whilst gaining valuable training and experience too. It provides the participant with the chance to gain insights into the workings of a busy site and the employer with an opportunity to monitor and assess a candidate’s performance throughout the placement.

This was certainly the case for James Grant, an SCF work placement candidate. He secured a placement with Morgan Sindall when he met them at a Jobs and Careers Fair set up by Saints Foundation. Morgan Sindall supports opportunities for local people in the areas they deliver projects and regularly attend events to showcase opportunities. They have worked with Saints FC for a number of years and understand the importance to local young people of developing close links with them. James joined the SCF Solent University new sport centre scheme in Southampton which is being delivered by Morgan Sindall.

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Work experience leads to a permanent position whilst helping to engage with and inspire construction’s next generation

SCF well placed to buck the trend in Glenigan Economic Forecast

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Glenigans highline heading from their Construction Outlook Forecast for 2018 and 2019 suggested that the construction industry would contract through the latter part of 2018 into 2019.

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SCF well placed to buck the trend in Glenigan Economic Forecast

Britain’s top 24 universities are spending more than £9bn on construction work over the next four years, generating £44bn for the UK economy

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Economic research carried out by BiGGAR Economics looked at planned spending by the 24 Russell Group Universities between 2012/13 and 2016/17. The amount they are building is on a similar scale to the amount spent on the 2012 Olympics or the government’s current railway investment programme.

The key findings of the report are that over a 25 year period capital investment by Russell Group universities
is expected to generate gross value added (GVA) with a current value of £44.3bn for the UK economy. This includes £8.2bn of short-term impacts relating to construction and fit-out, £10.1bn longer-term operational benefits and £26.0bn of wider catalytic impacts stimulated by activities carried out in the new facilities.

These projects are expected to support more than 98,500 UK jobs. This will include around 37,800 temporary jobs during the five-year construction period, around 45,000 permanent operational jobs and almost 15,700 permanent jobs supported by the wider catalytic impact of the activity undertaken in the new facilities. View the full article here.