The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Andrew Eldred
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The green energy revolution relies on electricians and electrical companies to design and deliver the infrastructure needed to support generation and use of energy. Without them, the revolution dies and we will be unable to meet our statutory or moral obligations to a green grid or net-zero. Luckily, we have the Electrical Contractors Association, which is the guardian of standards and competence within the electrical sector, representing electrical contractors across the UK.
Andrew Eldred in the Deputy CEO and has been involved in supporting skills, through apprentices and other routes to ensure that the UK has the skilled people to deliver this revolution. In this podcast Andrew talks about the opportunity and the risks of not delivering competent people to design and install the installations needed for net-zero. Whilst there is still work to do, both at a strategic, national level and at a local level with individual colleges and employers, Andrew is relatively confident that the people and aspiration exists, provided that we can make some changes to the training and recruitment environment. These changes are needed to make it more attractive and commercially viable to recruit and train apprentices, whilst at the same time demonstrating future demand.
ECA (Electrical Contractors' Association)