A specialist academy aimed at delivering the skilled workforce needed to build Crossrail will train some 1,000 people by 2015, the mayor of London has announced.
The Crossrail Tunnelling Academy, which will be created through a partnership between Crossrail and the construction industry, is planned to open in spring 2010. It aims to provide the skills necessary for work in a variety of tunnelling roles. Mayor Boris Johnson is investing £8M in the project.
He said: ‘I want to make sure that Londoners benefit from the opportunities that this scale of work can offer. That’s why, across the GLA group, we are cultivating hundreds of apprentices, working to spark young people’s interest in engineering, and are investing £8M in the academy, which will give many hundreds the necessary skills.’
Crossrail is committed to providing at least 400 apprenticeships.
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