Construction Training Centre

The Construction Training Centre is Weston College’s new facility which will help tackle the growing skills shortage in the construction industry. It’s conveniently situated just off junction 21, and will mainly provide training at the point of need for businesses, their employees and private individuals. The external and structural aspects of the buildings are hugely impressive; each facility purpose-built to deliver training in a specific area of the industry. The centre will essentially provide training in five key industry areas: 1 Plant operations This will take place in a 1.5-acre area and include training in the use of construction vehicles such as 360° excavators, dumpers and telescopics. 2 Street and groundworks This space will deal with preparing sites for grounds work. We’ll provide training for cutting into tarmac, laying foundations and pipework, installing drainage, coning off highways and setting up temporary traffic lights. 3 Scaffolding The scaffolding ‘hangar’ is a 10 metres high by 40 meters long, and will share the building with forklift training. As part of this initiative Weston College has partnered with scaffolding training and safety experts, Simian. 4 Forklifting A third of the scaffolding ‘hangar’ will be dedicated to warehouse-related training – such as counterbalance and reach truck forklift courses. 5 Logistics The centre will also include a large tarmacked area where people will learn how to manoeuvre lorries, large passenger vehicles and cars with trailers. DVSA tests will be conducted from the centre and we expect the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC) – a qualification for professional bus, coach and lorry drivers – to be popular classroom course along with ADR and Operators CPC. We’ll also provide the standard health and safety training courses that everyone working on a construction site needs.