Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) awarding body

What we're all about

At a glance

Our role is to work with employers to encourage training, which helps to build a safe, professional and fully qualified workforce.

 The support and funding we provide helps companies to improve skills, increase their competitiveness and respond to challenges such as the low carbon agenda, reducing costs on site and recruiting the best talent for their sector.

CITB works with the industry and its clients to ensure the construction sector has the right skills, in the right place, at the right time.

Who are we?

We believe that developing the skills of workers in the construction industry is crucial to the health of the UK economy – that’s why we are working with employers to make sure our industry has the right skills in the right place, at the right time.

We are the Industry Training Board and a partner in the Sector Skills Council for the construction industry, working with industry, for industry to deliver a safe, professional and fully qualified UK construction workforce.

We work with construction companies to help them improve skills, increase their competitive edge and respond to the many challenges employers face – from the low carbon agenda, through to reducing costs on-site and recruiting the best and brightest talent for their sector. 

What do we do?

We use our robust sector specific labour market intelligence, the Construction Skills Network, to develop and deliver a range of products and services to construction employers, and we invest employer funds in a variety of ways - so that businesses can keep the skills in their workforce up-to-date, and increase their bottom line.