If your business model revolves more
around river tours and large
bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots
of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for
human flesh, may do a better job
of making your employees feel like they are
part of something greater.
The report finds makes a list
of recommendations for business, industry, professional
bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better
human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally
around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better
human resource management and support the effort
of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding
of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional
bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations
of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding
of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub
of construction excellence, as a core
part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs
of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House
of Commons later today.
Researchers report in the Journal
of Biomedical Materials Research
Part A that they successfully grew cartilage
around carbon nanotubes in their lab — and are optimistic that one day they will be able to duplicate the feat inside the
human body.