Spain’s first Joint Construction Body
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Spain’s first Joint Construction Body
The Fundación Laboral de la Construcción del Principado de Asturias (FLC Asturias) was created in 1988 through a founding agreement between the employers’ organisations and trade unions in the construction sector in Asturias. The FLC Asturias currently has 62 employees. The main objective is the design and implementation of vocational training for the construction sector, either in its own training centres or in institutions outside the FLC Asturias, such as public vocational training schools or social welfare services offering scholarships, grants for continuing vocational training, etc. The FLC Asturias also has a career guidance and placement agency which brings together people looking for work or training and construction companies looking for qualified employees.
The FLC Asturias, with its two vocational training schools, is a reference in the region in terms of the quality of its programmes. Since its creation, the FLC Asturias has trained around 70,000 people and has implemented 5,305 training courses (face-to-face and in mixed learning mode, integrating work situations in companies), corresponding to a wide variety of trades and functions. Thanks to its direct and continuous contact with construction companies, FLC Asturias is constantly striving to design and develop new training paths to qualify trainees for the future and the skill requirements.
Activities and experiences
Activities and experiences developed by FLC Asturias and particularly useful for the RenovUP project:
- Restoration and renovation of old buildings (long cycle, several promotions);
- Diagnosis and evaluation of building renovation;
- Management of building renovation;
- Master’s degree in building renovation (long cycle, several promotions);
- Energy renovation in old buildings;
- Insulation for renovation;
- Initial training for renovation (two-year cycle alternating with companies, several promotions);
- Energy renovation of building envelope techniques (several cycles every year since 2012).