Awards, Featured, Training

SKILLBUILD WALL AND FLOOR TILING WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The winners of the SkillBuild National Final 2023 have been announced, after 78 construction trainees went head-to-head over three days. SkillBuild is delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and showcases some of the brightest talent in construction. The prestigious competition brings together highly skilled learners and apprentices to battle it out to be […]

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Training

REVAMPED TILING GUIDE NOW AVAILABLE FROM TTA

TTA has introduced a revamped version of its popular Tiling Guide. Featuring the new TTA branding, this 28-page full-colour A5 booklet includes help and support for tilers in their day-to-day work. It contains practical information on how to deal with key installation issues which most tilers will encounter in the course of their work. TTA’s […]

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Awards, Featured, Training

WINNERS OF SKILLBUILD CONSTRUCTION ‘SKILLS OLYMPICS’ ANNOUNCED

SkillBuild have announced the winners of the National Finals 2022, which took place at Edinburgh College on 15th to 17th November. SkillBuild, often dubbed the ‘Skills Olympics’, is delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) in partnership with WorldSkills UK and offers a chance for trainees to compete to be crowned winner in their […]

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Featured, General, Training

SKILLBUILD 2021 NATIONAL FINALS

TTA recently attended SkillBuild 2021 along with TTA members – Nicobond, Schlüter-Systems and BAL – who supported the competition with materials. SkillBuild is the largest multi-trade skills competition in the UK for construction trainees and apprentices which comprises a series of competitions. It sees the very best in a range of disciplines compete against each other to be […]

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General, Training

FREE TILING COURSES FOR WOMEN AT LEEDS COLLEGE OF BUILDING

Following on from the success of last year’s ‘Love Our Colleges’ campaign, Leeds College of Building, a TTA associated training centre, is dedicating 18–22 October to Colleges Week 2021 and highlighting the incredible work colleges do.  During the national awareness campaign, Leeds College of Building will host its first face-to-face open event post-COVID-19 on Thursday 21 […]

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Featured, Training

A ‘WORLD FIRST’ IN WALL AND FLOOR TILING

Paul Doran, WorldSkills UK Training Manager and Lecturer, Southern Regional College, provides an update on WorldSkills preparation. The impact of Covid has not only played havoc with sporting fixtures around the world, the WorldSkills organising committee has also been forced to postpone the next ‘skills Olympics’. It will now take place in Shanghai in October […]

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