Screwfix has announced the 10 finalists in this year’s Trade Apprentice competition.

James Monk, 25, a quantity surveyor from Cambridge, has been named CIOB’s 2024/5 Apprentice of the Year.

James Pratt, assistant quantity surveyor, Level 3 construction support technician, Barratt Developments

Almost a quarter million new people will need to be recruited to deliver the government’s housing targets, a new report by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) said.

Darcy Russell is a Level 4 construction design & build technician at BDW Trading.

The Level 4 construction design and build technician, BDW Trading – Barratt, talks about apprenticeships, technological advances and his favourite project.

The trainee surveyor at Higgins Partnership is CIOB’s July apprentice of the month.

CCG (Scotland), a CIOB training partner, has welcomed 10 new trade apprentices, reaffirming its dedication to the next generation of skilled professionals in the Scottish construction sector.

Morgan Sindall in Norwich recently put its work experience programme in the hands of its apprentices.

Although construction has broadly welcomed Labour’s measures and bills announced at the King’s Speech, some in the industry have raised concerns about how the new government will bridge the skills gap to achieve the 1.5m new homebuilding target.

Topcon’s Andy Flood believes machine control and automation of plant are an essential part of the industry’s journey towards digitalisation.