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The Construction Skills Crisis Is A Capacity Problem
Construction’s skills crisis may be less about attracting new people and more about the industry’s inability to absorb, develop and make effective use of them.
In this episode of Behind the Built Environment, David Frise, Chief Executive of BESA, speaks with Mark Farmer, founder of CAST Consultancy and author of the landmark Modernise or Die report.
Almost ten years after the report was published, Mark reflects on how much construction has genuinely changed and why its traditional labour model continues to struggle.
The conversation challenges the assumption that the industry simply has a…
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