There are a number of areas of potential difficulty associated with establishing an effective project collaboration. Industry and organisational cultures, based on past practices and experience, can cause resistance to the change from traditional to collaborative delivery strategies. Quite apart from individual self-interests, there are a number of psychological [...]
The Northern Competency Cluster is combining forces to deliver an innovative skills pathway into the process, engineering, and construction industry for Teesside, through Skills Bootcamps, as nine talented trainees secure employment. The Northern Competency Cluster (NCC), which is a collaboration between the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB), NETA Training [...]
ECITB’s levy proposals that received the overwhelming backing of industry in November, have been enacted into legislation following approval from both the House of Commons and House of Lords last week. The draft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023 was tabled by The Minister for [...]
Chinwe Odili, a Structural Engineer in the Oil, Gas and Offshore Wind division at Kent (formerly Atkins Oil & Gas), has been appointed as Chair of the ECITB Innov8 Group. Innov8, which comprises representatives from all eight sectors of the Engineering Construction Industry, is an early careers [...]
Andrew Hockey, the ECITB's new chief executive, considers what skills for Net Zero means and what the ECITB as engineering construction skills body can do to support the energy transition. My first week as Accounting Officer and CEO of the ECITB has coincided with Net Zero Week. [...]
The ECITB is calling on employers to get involved in helping to shape the future of the Hydrogen Skills Framework and ensure the skills needs of the engineering construction industry (ECI) are represented in this. The Hydrogen Skills Alliance (HSA), comprising representatives from industry, academia, research, industrial clusters, government, [...]
To celebrate the International Women in Engineering Day 2023 (INWED), ECITB's Deputy Director of Strategy & Policy, Jenny Young shares her views on being a chartered engineer for almost 40 years. I am an Accidental Engineer. I have been in the profession for nearly 40 years now but, looking [...]
Engineers and managers looking to increase their net zero knowledge can now register for the Energy Transition Leadership Programme (ETLP) module: Techno-Economics of Energy Systems and Integration. The six-week online course through the University of Strathclyde starts on 12th April 2023 and will comprise a combination of live tutorials, [...]
‘Old habits die hard’, ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ and the especially harsh, ‘a fool at forty is a fool forever’ are all sayings that reference the difficulty humans have in adopting new habits or ways of working. But the pace of change in 2023 is [...]
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) announced today that Andy Brown will take over as its Interim CEO. Andy has been in engineering since 1982 when he joined the Royal Air Force as an aircraft technician. During his career Andy developed technical training and competence schemes before leading [...]
