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Shift to low-carbon construction 'will require retraining'
01/12/10
Edited by Tom Bardsley.The construction industry will have to improve green skills training "at all levels" if builders are to successfully deliver low-carbon towns and cities, it has been claimed.
A spokesman for the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) said this will present "massive" challenges for the sector.
"For the health of the industry and in order to ensure that we have got a competitive, forward-looking industry, these challenges have to be met," he added.
The UCATT representative's comments follow the publication of a new report from the government-appointed Innovation and Growth Team, which said tradesmen will have to deliver a "quantum change" in the built environment if the UK is to meet its target of cutting carbon emissions by 80 per cent from their 1990 baseline by 2050.
Paul Morrell, the head of the unit, argued that while there are "no easy answers" as to how this can be achieved, the shift to low-carbon construction could provide the industry with work for the next 40 years.
