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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
OCTOBER
2016
and implemented strategies which align
business objectives with individual expec-
tations of career success. All this – through
the organisations’ Future Integrated Talent
Programme which sits under the Bigen
Capacity Framework.
In an effort to promote
Mentorship of
young engineers
CESA recognises the contri-
bution Mentors make to the industry and the
future of the profession. Nevin Rajasakran
from Zitholele Consulting is the Mentor of
the year. He has 18 years of experience. He
has personally mentored three candidate
engineers over fifteen years. His culminating
achievement was to mentor and guide his
three mentees to manage teams on some of
the country’s major Power Stations.
Growthpoint Properties is the V
isionary
client of the year
. Growthpoint is the market
leader in implementing ‘best practices’ for
sustainable operational efficiency and ‘green’
features in its 470 properties.
In recognition of the role that the media plays
in the industry, Civil Engineering Contractor
received recognition for
Publishing Excel-
lence: Trade Publication
and Engineering
News received recognition for
Publishing
Excellence: Daily Newspapers.
Royal HaskoningDHV was announced as
the winner of the
CESA Job Shadow Initiative
with UWP and Nako Iliso as runners-up.
CESA's Cape Town Branch was named winner
of the Branch of the Year Award.
More than 2 000 people have already
graduated from the company’s
training schools in Durban and Cape
Town, and at their former Midrand facility.
“Skills development remains a key
priority in South Africa and Corobrik is
committed to playing a meaningful role
in this process,” says Berkley Petty, human
resources development manager for the
brick manufacturer which has been in oper-
ation for more than a century.
“Corobrik’s three building training
centres are designed to provide unskilled
workers in both the public and private
sectors with recognised qualifications in
bricklaying, blocklaying and segmental
paving disciplines, providing fundamental
skills to the construction industry.”
The Corobrik training centres offer a
variety of courses ranging frombasic bricklaying
to learnerships.
The bricklaying training centres are accred-
ited by the Construction Education and Training
Authority (CETA) and run NQF accredited
courses. Training is conducted in groups both
at the centre or on site, combining theory with
practical implementation.
A number of major construction companies
as well as the Department of Public Works and
Transport have enrolled learners on Corobrik’s
bricklayer training programmes.
The progress and skills levels of each student
are monitored and recorded – during both their
theoretical and practical training. Those with
strong technical aptitudes and those that show
initiative are encouraged to go further with
their training. Once they have completed the
courses, the learners are in a better position to
find gainful employment with government
or construction companies and many have
gone on to establish their own enterprises,’”
Petty said.
The Corobrik Bricklaying Centres are not
run on a profit basis but rather to cover costs
so as to help make the training affordable
to the learners.
According to Petty, it is all about helping
people attain the skills they need to earn
a living. This is in line with government’s
appeal for business, labour and communi-
ties to work together to help meet the New
Growth Path objective of creating five million
jobs by 2020 and reducing the unemploy-
ment rate to 15%.
‘The building training centres are also an
integral element of Corobrik’s multi-faceted
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment
initiatives to help lay the foundation for a
prosperous future for South Africa.
The Durban training centre is at Coro-
brik’s Avoca factory, the Cape Town facility
has moved to a site next to the company’s
Lansdowne centre in Springfield.TheGauteng
school has moved fromMidrand to Lawley to
be more accessible to the learners.
UPSKILLING CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
Corobrik has opened a new bricklaying training centre at its
Lawley factory in Gauteng which is one of three countrywide
that provides opportunities for unskilled South Africans to
acquire the fundamental expertise they need to secure work
in the building industry.
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