Sir John Egan and Sir Michael Latham back groundbreaking £8.5 million national construction management training centre

Concrete, Apr 2007

Sir John Egan and Sir Michael Latham have given their support to the first national virtual reality training centre for construction managers and professionals in the UK - and only the second in the world. They both agree that the £8.5 million ACT-UK centre, to be built on a site at Coventry University, builds on their government-commissioned reports Rethinking Construction and Constructing the Team. ACT-UK was launched in January 2007 at the National Motorcycle Museum to more than 200 construction and education professionals. The Advanced Construction Technologies centre, the bulk of which will contain the world's second ever virtual reality simulation training centre for construction managers and professionals, should be up and running by autumn 2008 and could provide training for several thousand people a year. It is modelled on a similar centre in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The simulation centre will take training of construction managers to a new level.

Pictured: Actors perform a vital role in the virtual reality simulator.