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Last edited 16 Feb 2022
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Skills and careers

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Browse the content below to learn about the various occupations, career journeys and resources available.

If it's work experience/placements, an apprenticeship or internship, or a job that you're after, have a look at Work Opportunities on the Building People platform, where you'll also find useful Activities & Events and more Resources.

As always this page is an open resource, so please do add your own content and help grow this valuable resource.

Contents

  • 1 Apprenticeships
  • 2 Careers
  • 3 Job roles
  • 4 Occupations

[edit] Apprenticeships

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  • Apprenticeship.
  • Apprenticeships come of age
  • Apprenticeships levy.
  • BSRIA call for more vocational training
  • Construction apprentice earnings.
  • Construction Industry Training Board CITB.
  • EIC apprentice support programme.
  • How to take on an apprentice (CCATF)
  • Protection for apprenticeships.
  • Sustainable Degree Apprenticeships

[edit] Careers

  • Architectural Technology: AT Suite (CIAT)
  • Architecture (Theory_Praxis_Design) | series
  • Careers in the electrotechnical industry
  • Getting into Architecture
  • Go Construct
  • How the built environment can unlock opportunities for skills
  • Renewable Heating: Podcast series (BetaTalk)
  • What engineers really do for a living.

[edit] Job roles

  • From Agency (residential or commercial) to Valuation, via Contracts Manager and Management Consultancy, see UCEM job roles

[edit] Occupations

  • Access consultant.
  • Acoustic consultant.
  • Apprentice.
  • Approved inspector.
  • Archaeologist.
  • Bricklayer.
  • Carpenter.
  • Chartered environmentalist.
  • Civil engineer.
  • Clerk of works.
  • Client design adviser.
  • Client's representative.
  • Construction manager.
  • Consulting engineer.
  • Contract administrator.
  • Electrician.
  • Ecologist.
  • Employer's agent.
  • Employer's BIM adviser.
  • Environmental consultant.
  • Facilities manager.
  • Fire engineering consultant.
  • Furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) consultant.
  • Health and safety consultant.
  • How to become a civil engineer
  • How to become a construction manager
  • How to become a quantity surveyor
  • How to become an arbitrator
  • How to become an architect
  • How to become an engineer
  • Information and communications technology (ICT) consultant.
  • Interior designer.
  • Landscape architect.
  • Lighting designer.
  • Local consultants.
  • Management consultant.
  • Management contractor.
  • Party wall surveyor.
  • Planning consultant.
  • Programme consultant.
  • Public health consultant.
  • Rights of light surveyor.
  • Security consultant.
  • Site inspector.
  • Specialist contractor.
  • Structural waterproofing consultant.
  • Surveyor.
  • Traffic engineer.
  • Wet trades.
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