Repair, Maintenance and Improvement Research

CITB wants to develop a Sector Skills plan in the RMI sector with specific focus on retrofitting to address current and potential future market needs. This will enable the creation of a sustainable market for domestic retrofit work, which will ultimately need to encompass all domestic RMI work if the Government’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2050 is to be met.

This research project will collect and analyse data needed to inform the creation of an RMI Sector Skills plan. As well as looking at the current sector and how it operates, this research will need to estimate the (i) potential size of the RMI market in the future, (ii) assess the current quality of the training on offer to the RMI sector and how this is shaped by employer’s needs, and (iii) how it might need to adapt to future needs.