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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Building & Construction Minister Jenny Salesa at the launch of the Construction CoVE in September.
CONSTRUCTION CoVE TO BE BASED IN MANUKAU The new Construction and Infrastructure Centre of Vocational Excellence (ConCoVE) launched in early September and will be based at the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT). This marks another step in the government’s vocational training reforms, which has seen all existing polytechnics become subsidiary companies of a single Hamilton-based national institute with the working title of the NZ Institute of Skills & Technology. Driving projects for ConCoVE will be a consortium of 42 current members, including the Construction Industry Accord, Construction Industry Council, MIT, Unitec, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Skills, BCITO, and Connexis.
“We are very excited to be representing the Accord in the consortium chosen to lead the Construction CoVE,” says Graham Burke of the Construction Industry Accord, who is also President of the Specialist Trade Contractors Federation. “The ConCOVE is taking on some of the big issues the sector has faced for a long time. How to increase the number of people in training and the quality of training; how to broaden the diversity of people working in the industry and improve outcomes for Māori, women and other priority groups. “ConCoVE is also looking to the future and how we can adapt to disruptive technologies and use training in the fight to reduce carbon and waste in construction.”
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