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- One year on: Progress on the Accord Transformation Plan 2022-2025
- Government agency commitments on special conditions in contracts
- Contractual guidance due to severe weather and flooding events
- Improving health and safety through better design practice
- Construction sector contracts review
- Meet the Transformation Leads
- New operating model for Construction Accord
- Construction Sector Accord launches $37 million transformation plan
- Diversity and inclusion – the right thing and the smart thing for construction
- Panel of recognised Engineers to the Contract launched
- New industry leaders and sector reference groups to guide Accord transformation plan
- Accord is ‘go to’ forum for industry-govt dialogue – independent evaluation
- Departing Accord co-chairs ‘hand over the keys’
- Funding supports new construction sector Transformation Plan
- Immigration Rebalance welcomed by Construction Accord
- Accord publishes 2021 Progress Report
- Accord Steering Group – call for new members
- Construction MIQ closes after helping hundreds
- Accord Environment Roadmap released
- Farewell to 2021 from the Accord Steering Group co-chairs
- Strong pipeline forecast shows industry can prepare for future
- New broader outcomes guidance published
- Accord proposes construction vaccination protocols
- New Plymouth District Council wins Beacons Award
- Review of NZS3910 construction contract launched
- Finalists announced for inaugural Construction Accord Beacons Awards
- Building for the Future report released
- Construction Sector Accord supply chain research issued
- Launch of Accord Network
- Accord funding towards better business performance in specialist trades
- ConCOVE – Women's Advisory Group announced
- Diversity in Construction initiative “great news” for women in construction
- Have your say on three MBIE consultations on Building Act reforms
- Critical workers entering New Zealand under Covid-19
- World Safety and Health at Work Day
- Construction Sector Accord partnership builds sustainable workforce
- Construction Sector Accord partnership helps resourcing for suicide prevention
- Accord Steering Group welcomes two new members
- Government and industry collaborating to improve good business practice
- Planning for a post-COVID construction sector
- 2020 Construction Sector Progress Report shows benefits of Accord
- Constructive Forum brings Government and industry together
- Accord welcomes new members to lead transformation delivery
- Construction Sector Accord part of the consortium to lead Construction Centre of Vocational Excellence
- Construction and Infrastructure Workforce Development Council making progress
- More help to keep and employ apprentices
- Accord welcomes new residential construction sector support
- Save the date: Rapid Mobilisation Playbook webinar
- Rapid Mobilisation Playbook to support fast-tracking of construction projects
- Managing Risk Webinar
- New Contract Partnering Agreement launched
- Accord's first Beacon Project: Reducing carbon in construction – Watercare
- NZ Infrastructure Commission publish the Lifting Our Gaze report
- Mates in Construction
- New Construction Procurement Guidelines to promote better practices
- Mental Health in Construction
- Construction contracts under the microscope
- Innovate, Partner, Build – a better way to work with industry
- Accord set to change 'rules of the game' in construction industry
- Launch of the Construction Sector Accord
Construction Sector Accord partnership builds sustainable workforce
The Construction Sector Accord is partnering with Diversity Works New Zealand, the national body for workplace diversity and inclusion, to build a sustainable workforce for the construction sector.
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Accord Director Dean Kimpton says the old ways of working won't stand up to the future challenges the sector faces.
"We want to encourage more diverse talent into the construction sector and shift away from our traditional way of attracting, recruiting, retaining and growing people - the status quo isn't working.
"Construction as a sector is made up of an expansive variety of creative and rewarding careers yet we are struggling to attract and retain a diverse range of people into these jobs.
"We are embarking on this project with Diversity Works New Zealand to better understand how we can improve diversity, equity and inclusion and, ultimately, to better reflect the communities who live and work in the environments we create."
One of the biggest challenges facing the construction industry is the shortage of people and skills throughout the sector, impacting its capacity to deliver the growing pipeline of construction projects. Women make up only 18 per cent of the construction-related workforce in New Zealand and Māori and Pasifika are underrepresented in the skilled professions and at leadership level.
"The industry has exciting initiatives underway to meet some of these challenges through the work of the Diversity Agenda, the National Association of Women in Construction and Women in Trades, as well as organisations like Keystone Trust.
"We are looking forward to building a roadmap with Diversity Works New Zealand to transform the sector to better invest in and promote diversity, so that we can become a sector that welcomes and celebrates people of all identities and backgrounds.
"This partnership with Diversity Works will bring us one step closer to achieving this goal," says Dean Kimpton.
Diversity Works New Zealand Chief Executive Maretha Smit says one of the first steps will be to get a clear understanding of current diversity and inclusion practices within the construction industry.
"This research will give us robust data, and a sense of the diversity landscape across the various trades in the sector and how that's impacted by organisation size.
"The assessment tools used in this research will also empower organisations to benchmark themselves against their peers and to develop organisation specific goals and interventions to create sustainable workforces."
It's the first time that in depth research is being conducted on diversity and inclusion practices across a whole sector, Smit says. "This is especially significant as the construction sector is critical to our economic recovery post Covid and the opportunity to expand into diverse talent pools will ensure that this recovery is more equitably shared across the workforce that was impacted by Covid."
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