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Planning the skills to back the Games

SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering, has launched a project that aims to ensure a skilled workforce is in place should the UK host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

SummitSkills are planning to work with partner Sector Skills Councils, local authorities, developers and employers across the city to a develop training programmes and apprenticeship schemes to produce the necessary building services engineers that are needed to create the Olympic Village and other structures for the event.

"With every element of the Olympic infrastructure needing the core building services - electricity, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration – having the right number of skilled people in these areas is going to be vital in getting the city prepared for 2012," said Blane Judd, Operations Director of SummitSkills. "The planning has to start now to develop the skills in the local community so that the skills are available to resource the huge workforce requirement.

"The resource planning undertaken at this stage will be beneficial to the Thames Gateway project, which will also need a considerable amount of building services engineers," said Judd.

SummitSkills say that the London Olympic Games would generate demand for 7,000 full-time equivalent construction related workers.

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