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Building. 7.400 jobs destroyed in two years

11 September 2010

The crisis weighs heavily on the construction industry in Britain who will lose 7.400 jobs in two years.
The horizon is struggling to emerge, with the exception of a tremor in Ille-et-Vilaine and Morbihan.

"Contrary to what one sometimes hears, we do not yet see little light at the end of the tunnel, summarizes Yvon Le Normand, the regional president of the French Building Federation (FFB).
The order books are not getting color ".
Despite this lack of visibility, President of the FFB receives a slight tremor in the market for new residential housing (individual and collective) in the Departments of Ille-et-Vilaine and Morbihan, which recorded a small increase in the number of building permits, "Prompting more optimism". By cons, Finistere and Cotes d'Armor still fail to take off.

A Brittany, the construction sector account 86 000 active. 5000 jobs were destroyed in 2009, and losses expected to total 2400 for the year 2010.


Text from the Labour Market : http://www.lemarchedutravail.fr

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"Green" jobs and building : Anticipate needs

Provide a better match between supply and demand jobs for green growth in the building trades : this is the goal of a "research-action" program in areas controlled by the ADEME and the Cities Alliance Jobs.

Work that was done in the framework of "participatory workshops prospective", from the data provided by the quantitative regional Bipe. "These shared diagnoses highlighted opportunities and brakes, précise Thomas Gaudin.
On average over the three regions, building markets related to energy efficiency and renewables could double by 2012, but with differences across territories, the types of activities and crafts.

Otherwise, in the busiest business - mostly masons, carpenters, Carpenters, Roofers, heating engineers, painters and electricians - skills required will change.
However, these changes may be hampered by a lack of legibility issues of the Grenelle, poor coordination of actors, or an offer to inadequate training. »

In general, the diagnostic phase reveals discrepancies between available resources and needs, both in terms of markets and vocational programs. These findings allow shared mobilize actors around concrete answers.
In a second phase, three houses employment and their partners have built effective action plans to improve consistency in the territory of the market-jobs-skills-training chain. Total, thirty actions will be deployed over the period 2010-2012;….

From the website : http://www.ademe.fr

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Artisan Building in the Land of Gauguin :

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This masonry company working in the structural work but also in the restoration of old stone houses, with some specific :
perforate treated, of concrete floor slabs and prefabricated, coatings and gaskets traditional lime, or hemp and lime plaster, breathing brief houses and returning to fundamental ecological…..


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