Project
management training 
Scottish Building Federation - The Scottish Building Federation and Monitor build for the future
The Scottish Building Federation has
responded to research that shows that the Scottish construction
industry in its present phase of growth needs to improve the
project management skills of its managers. Contributing £10bn
(10%) to Scotland’s GDP and employing 250,000 people, the
construction industry is one of Scotland’s biggest employers.
ConstructionSkills, which helps the industry in all aspects of
recruiting, training and qualifying the construction workforce,
has fully supported an initiative to increase the competency of
managers in the construction sector and 2007 will see the push
for competence-based Project Management training courses to be
offered to the sector, which will lead to the internationally
recognised awards of The Association for Project Management.
Project Management training specialists, Monitor, who already
provide project training and software solutions here and abroad,
have partnered with the Scottish Building Federation to deliver
programmes across the country at times and venues to suit the
managers attending. This is the first time that both
organisations have come together to offer such a dedicated
programme of training to suit the needs of the sector.
The construction sector will be able to access Project
Management courses at different levels to suit existing skills,
giving managers the chance to achieve an internationally
recognised qualification, and the industry the opportunity to
benchmark itself against other sectors that use competence-based
Project Management training to develop their staff.
The first course in Carron Grange, the Headquarters of the
Scottish Building Federation takes place on 5th and 6th June
2007.
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