Industry builds up its skills in digital “This is an opportunity for us to drive digital maturity”

Scotland’s construction bosses and their suppliers are at the heart of a new, CITBfunded programme to give them the skills necessary to drive digital transformation.

CITB is the training body for the construction industry in England, Scotland and Wales.

Scottish training firm Setting Out for Construction (SOfC) will receive £292,000 of CITB funding to head up one of six UK-wide projects to provide industry leaders with the skills needed to embed digital practices throughout their businesses.

The project will be delivered by a group of 25 industry partners and suppliers under the new branding of Digital Construction Skills.

SOfC director Saffron Grant said: “This is an exciting opportunity for us to drive increasing digital maturity across Scottish construction firms as well as share our learning, learn from others and deliver a digital legacy for the industry.”

Over the next two years, 400 leaders from CITB-registered employers throughout Scotland will acquire essential digital skills via face-to-face learning, coaching and mentoring, with online learning delivering training to a further 600 leaders from across England, Scotland and Wales.

The project will make all resources freely available to industry and create digital champions and trainers to widen the impact of their work.

Firms will be encouraged to appoint digital champions, engage supply chains and use diagnostic tools developed as part of the project in order to identify and assess their existing digital skills.