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Trades skills can be transferred to other sectors
The skills people learn in the trades are highly transferable and allow tradesmen to become more mobile, according to one construction association.
It follows a recent announcement from London mayor Boris Johnson that London's construction workers should ready themselves for a Crossrail engineering boom.
While the construction sector has hit a sharp downturn recently, education output is expected to increase by a third over the next two years and rail output is expected to almost treble by 2013.
Dr Noble Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, says the skills tradesmen have learned in one sector can often be transferred into another.
"If you're say an electrician who works on housing or industrial buildings, there's no reason why you can't do that in schools or hospitals," he added.
However, Dr Francis mentions that more training might be needed to build up the skills needed for infrastructure work such as railway and road building as the skills "are not so transferable".
