Giant step for professional co-operation in the South East construction industry
Friday, June 20, 2008
Fourteen construction industry professional institutes in the South East have agreed a programme of action that will enable them to present a co-ordinated front in:
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Policy and strategic issues
- 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.
