Looking back on CIOB Academy in 2025 and where it's going next

[edit] The broad appeal of CIOB Academy

2025 has been one of the most successful years in the history of CIOB Academy, with many new initiatives and courses introduced. The content has been approached with the goal of enhancing the depth and breadth of what the academy has to offer – appealing to professionals from more fields and delivering critical insights via a wider variety of formats.

[edit] Appealing to a wider array of professionals through new courses

In 2025, CIOB Academy developed five courses to boost individuals’ confidence across a range of topics relevant to construction professionals.

JCT E-learning focuses on the recent changes to JCT contracts and how they directly ensure legislation is upheld within a building project. Solar PVs in Social Housing, focused on sustainability, teaches how to install and enable the use of green energy within residential housing. Fundamentals of Defect Management and Prevention, as well as Managing and Growing a Construction Business, are two courses designed to help with upscaling a business and running building projects smoothly, finally, Mastering Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), is a course designed for the specific role of project managers who need to manage timelines, outgoing costs and ensure a high standard of delivery.

[edit] Delivering a new pathway to membership

Expanding on this, in 2025, we have also introduced a new pathway to becoming a CIOB Chartered Member – the Chartered Roofing Programme and Professional Review, which was launched at the end of July. This new pathway to membership is specifically designed for roofing professionals, ensuring that we, as a company, appeal to a broader range of backgrounds from across the construction industry.

[edit] CPD resources

Outside of these courses, the Knowledge Hub Team has reached over 300+ Continued Professional Development Resources (CPDs). Our CPD resources feed into the academy’s goal of providing a large variety of resources for construction professionals that include key skills relevant to all job roles on the market – including interpersonal skills, time and financial management, project management and more.

Alongside these CPD resources, the Knowledge Hub Team has delivered several Technical Papers and Guides to inform professionals on codes, compliance and changes to modern regulation. These Technical Publications are full of critical insights concerning codes and regulations which need to be adhered to by the modern professional.

Some of these papers include Pre-Construction Services Agreement, Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment, Smarter Estimating, Stronger Margins and Guide to Products Critical to Safe Construction.

[edit] What’s coming next

2026 will see this philosophy continue. We will be opening a new method of achieving Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB), our Chartered Property Development Pathway, which is focused on delivering the benefits of membership to a new type of construction professional.

This will be joined by our other upcoming projects – our smaller segmented courses, which are a condensed curriculum aimed at bringing professionals up to speed on specialist topics, through a series of ‘micro-courses.’

2026 will also see the launch of the Academy Recognition Scheme (ARC), which aims to evaluate and promote courses from other companies that reach the CIOB standard. We will have more on all these projects as they come to fruition.

These projects, and our continued drive for high-quality content that appeals to a wide range of professionals, all stem from our fundamental mission to improve the quality of learning materials available to the industry, and to raise the standard of work being done within the industry through informed construction professionals – the values that the Academy was built on 10 years ago, in 2016.

[edit] Targets and plans

We have broken multiple records throughout 2025, surpassing our sales targets and reaching a record high of over £1 million. We have had record-breaking engagement on our social media, and most importantly Academy sign-ups are higher than ever before, with more than 4,500 Academy Alumni joining our ranks.

This success means new trainers and educational partners working with the academy, more innovative courses can be approved, and other improvements can be implemented into the academy infrastructure to improve the customer experience and further our range of offerings.

We remain committed to being a trusted, high-quality training provider—one that continually reinvests in the construction industry and works to raise the standard of education across the sector.

Thank you for joining us and being a part of CIOB Academy’s journey into the future of construction. From all of us on the team, here’s to 2026.

This article appears on the CIOPB news and Blog site as "Looking back on CIOB Academy in 2025 and where we’re going next" and was written by Adrian Montague, Director of the CIOB Academy dated 30th January 2026.

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