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CIC-ConstructionSkills Young Professionals Development Programme,
London and South East region

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Following a successful pilot in 2006, the CIC's ConstructionSkills team is planning to introduce its Young Professionals Development Programme into the London and South East region in autumn 2007.
This free programme, which was piloted in Manchester last year, is available to recent graduates entering the industry in 2007 and students on their work placement year. It consists of 3 short modules over a total of 8 days and aims to develop to promote interdisciplinary understanding and communication, two skills which employers are looking for in graduates entering the industry.

The following subjects will be covered: Health and Safety in Design Presentation Skills Personal Development

The programme is open to recent graduates entering a career in the Built Environment and undergraduate students who are undertaking a placement of at least 12 weeks as part of a built environment degree. All built environment disciplines are eligible, thereby giving vital experience of pan-professional working at the very start of the students' working careers. Please find attached a brochure which gives full details about the course.

A grant will be paid to the delegates' employers on successful completion of the full eight day programme.

Please note that places on the course are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

For more information on the Young Professionals Development Programme, or to enquire about enrolling a placement student, please contact Janette Welton-Pai at the CIC-ConstructionSkills team (email jwelton-pai@cic.org.uk or telephone 020 7399 7404).


Giant Step for Professional Co-operation in the South East Construction Industry

On 17 June 2008 fourteen construction industry professional institutes in the south east gathered to agree a programme of action that will enable them to present a co-ordinated front in; Continuing Professional Development (CPD), policy and strategic issues and recruitment.

On 3 June 2008, members of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in the south east signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The Memorandum sets out how the main professional construction industry institutes in the region will work more closely together to:

• deliver a programme of pan professional training courses and facilitate wider cooperation between institutes in the delivery of training
• encourage young people and others to see the diversity of the construction industry as a career
• enable institutes to comment collectively on strategic matters and policy issues impacting on the construction industry in the south east
• The members of CIC South East will also work with CIC-UK to review and promote the national web-based database of training courses for the construction industry, that was pioneered by the region.

CIC SE Chair, Graham Anderson says of the Memorandum of Understanding: "This is a great step forward for our region's construction and built environment sector and I am delighted that the south east is leading the way in signing such a comprehensive agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding is an important practical step towards day-to-day co-operation between construction professional institutes. It also provides a great focus to the work of CIC SE, giving us a clear mission statement: Building knowledge, Building capacity, Building awareness.

Organisations which signed the Memorandum of Understanding were:

Construction Industry Council
Construction Industry Council, South East
Association of Building Engineers
Association for Project Safety
Chartered Institute of Building
Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers
ConstructionSkills
Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Structural Engineers
National House Building Council
Royal Institute of British Architects, South
Royal Institute of British Architects, South East
Royal Town Planning Institute
South East Centre for the Built Environment.

Other institutes, organisations and educational institutes are expected to join at a later date.

FREE EVENTS

REGION	EVENTS	DATE	LOCATION
South East To book e-mail holly.charlton@abe.org.uk	Part F Energy Efficiant Solutions and Ventilation	16 July 2008	Crawley FREE EVENT
	Smoke Ventilation using Shafts	24 September 2008	Crawley FREE EVENT
	Waterproofing Basements & Underground Structures (Newbuild)	21 October 2008	Crawley FREE EVENT
	EN54:Part 20 & the FIA Code of Practice	18 November 2008	Basingstoke FREE EVENT

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