NHBC said that a construction NVQ was a benchmark qualification proving occupational competence to employers, with some being the equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree and leading to membership of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE).
The NVQs that NHBC offers have evolved to target key housebuilding areas at Levels 3 to 7, chiefly around construction site management.
It added that throughout the lockdowns, NHBC’s specialist training team had been working remotely to process assessment submissions and new candidate inductions. It plans to assess more candidates remotely over the coming year.
Geoff Mann, NHBC’s industry training manager, said: “We have continued to adapt and evolve our NVQ delivery, never more so since the pandemic began with the introduction of our remote NVQ assessment processes. I am pleased to say that since the first lockdown began last March, we have inducted over 250 candidates.
“Every course is specially tailored to each individual candidate dependent upon their job role and construction specialisms and is delivered by a designated member of our training team who collectively have hundreds of years of industry experience between them.”
