<p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>NHBC has passed the milestone of taking on more than 5,000 candidates under its NVQ training programme, 20 years after they began. </span></span></p> <p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>NHBC said that a construction NVQ was a benchmark qualification proving occupational competence to employers, with some being the equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree and leading to membership of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE).</span></span></p> <p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>The NVQs that NHBC offers have evolved to target key housebuilding areas at Levels 3 to 7, chiefly around construction site management.</span></span></p> <p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>It added that throughout the lockdowns, NHBC’s specialist training team had been working remotely to process assessment submissions and new candidate inductions. It plans to assess more candidates remotely over the coming year. </span></span></p> <p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>Geoff Mann, NHBC’s industry training manager, said: “We have continued to adapt and evolve our NVQ delivery, never more so since the pandemic began with the introduction of our remote NVQ assessment processes. I am pleased to say that since the first lockdown began last March, we have inducted over 250 candidates.</span></span></p> <p><span class="normaltextrun"><span>“Every course is specially tailored to each individual candidate dependent upon their job role and construction specialisms and …