Wales’ construction industry has been enjoying a boom in recent years.

Multi-million pound redevelopments of city centres and waterfronts, houses and apartments, major shopping complexes and iconic structures such as the Millennium Stadium and Millennium Centre have generated unprecedented large-scale employment.

Today, construction accounts for 93,000 jobs in Wales across a broad range of trades and professions. These people are employed by around 10,000 businesses with 90% of them being small enterprises employing fewer than 10 people.

Businesses range from large civil engineering operations to small specialist enterprises. Many of the big name contractors have a permanent base in Wales, including names such as Costain, Westbury and Redrow.

CITB-ConstructionSkills is the new Sector Skills Council spearheading the development of new skills for this thriving sector in Wales.

To find out more, visit

http://www.citb.org.uk/