How contractors can break down recruitment barriers and ensure a sustainable future

Simon Barlow

10 October 2023

Simon Barlow, Managing Director at United Kingdom-based demolition contractor Rye Group, discusses the skills shortage affecting the demolition industry and offers insight into how demolition contractors, no matter where in the world they are based, can attract new talent.

Like many niche areas within construction, demolition is currently facing a significant skills shortage – referred to by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as “the most severe since 2007”.

The truth is that – in light of an aging workforce further decimated by Covid and recent geopolitical events –…

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