The National House Building Council (NHBC) has launched a new training hub near Histon Football Club in Cambridge.
Built with the Hill Group, the facility can train more than 100 apprentices each year and is equipped with classrooms, welfare and catering facilities to provide apprentices with a realistic working environment.
The hub is the third dedicated training facility built by NHBC – the first was launched in Tamworth in 2021 and the second in Newcastle last year.
Jennifer Kehoe, a former police constable, is now doing her Level 2 bricklaying NVQ apprenticeship at the hub. “The training hub is set up like a real building site and it offers fast learning which helped me switch my career,” she says. “The first five weeks at the NHBC Training Hub got me ready to go onto a building site.”
Since becoming a registered apprenticeship provider in 2020, NHBC has trained 347 apprentices in bricklaying and construction site supervision.
