Tag: Gap
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Exeter College reveals strategy to bridge construction skills gap
Speaking to 40 representatives from regional colleges, employer representative bodies and local authorities at its Future Skills Centre, the college detailed initiatives to promote collaboration, strengthen employer engagement, expand construction training provision and create clear career pathways for learners. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Bridging the gap between Gantt charts and the construction site
Once on site, schedules are less about contract compliance and more about day-to-day alignment, ensuring every crew knows what they need to do, where and when they need to do it. Schedulers and planners also have to make reactive decisions on a range of factors, including weather, material deliveries, equipment and labour availability. View the…
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Closing the Payment Gap: How Factoring Keeps Dump Truck Businesses Moving
You put in the hours, you haul the loads, and the job gets done. The work moves fast, but the check doesn’t. Sometimes it takes 30 days, sometimes 90, and in the meantime, you’re facing fuel bills, payroll and repairs that can’t wait. One truck may be sitting on bad tires, another in need of…
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Cilio Technologies Highlights Production Management Gap
Cilio Technologies, a leading provider of contractor and job management software, announced a new focus on defining and leading the emerging category of Production Management. This critical concept bridges the gap between sales and fulfillment in the contracting and installed products industry. For years, contractors have relied on CRMs, Excel spreadsheets, and accounting systems to…
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Modern hiring: closing the construction skills gap
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Competency-led, modernised recruitment and selection practices are key to solving construction’s skills crisis. June 2025 marked the launch of the Construction Skills Mission Board (CSMB). The private and public sector partnership body is tasked with the recruitment of 100,000 construction workers a year by the end of Parliament to meet government housebuilding and infrastructure targets. A recent CIOB report has since speculated…
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IFS Study Reveals AI Maturity Gap in Construction Industry
IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today released the results of its global study on the accelerating scale of Industrial AI adoption across asset-intensive industries. The study found that while organizations, particularly in the construction & engineering (C&E) industry, are adopting AI today, they are not fully prepared for its full implementation. This…
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Wates drives initiative to close gender gap in construction and sport
Commenting on the work Wates is doing to champion gender equity, Steff Battle, executive managing director at the company, said: “We’re starting to make real changes by implementing processes and systems that help balance the gender split, and by making talent-based assessments when deciding who we promote. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Will Labour’s planning bill widen the ‘green space gap’?
Britain’s race to fix its housing crisis is colliding with another national obsession – the deepening divide between those who live near nature and those who don’t. As Labour’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill promises to “get Britain building” with fewer environmental hurdles, critics warn it could accelerate the loss of local green space and…
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Workplace wellbeing report highlights major perception gap
Larger companies, with 250 or more employees, were the strongest supporters of legally binding obligations (36%), while small companies, employing 10 to 49 staff, placed the strongest emphasis on tax incentives or financial subsidies for wellbeing programmes (35%), as did micro-business whose highest priority was also tax incentives or subsidies (29%). View the original article…
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Why Paper Time Tracking Fuels Construction’s $177B Productivity Gap
In commercial construction, every hour affects the bottom line. Yet many supervisors and managers still spend 14 hours each week chasing down timesheets, correcting handwriting, and resolving hours that don’t match the work performed. These are not minor inefficiencies. Industry-wide, these tasks contribute to over $177 billion in annual lost productivity. Despite the rise of…