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Vital work to improve payment in construction – we need your help
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Key takeaways from the first Building Safety Conference
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Having interrogated the CITB Construction Skills Network data it’s estimated 266,000 people are employed in the construction occupations of the finishes and interiors sector. To sustain this there’s an Annual Recruitment Requirement of approximately 6052 people per...



