Skills and careers

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.

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[edit] Apprenticeships

• 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.