Technology-driven training programme

Efforts above and beyond the call of duty to create an “anytime, anywhere learning experience” within the construction industry have earned Glasgow-based Douglas Morrison the Indeglas CleverOwl Award for March.

Judges were impressed by Morrison’s “great work” on Transforming Training in Construction, a blended programme designed to increase productivity, reduce inefficiencies and close the technical skills gap within the industry.

The programme is run by BCTG Construct, a consortium of educators, industrialists and designers aiming to boost the way in which construction-based training is delivered in the UK.

The BCTG Construct consortium is led by City of Glasgow College, where Morrison is Associate Director of Innovation and STEM. He also serves as the Scottish director of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, and holds several other board and advisory positions within key agencies such as the Scottish Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland.

“I have always been passionate about technology, and particularly the role that technologies can play in improving the quality of people’s lives and the way in which they engage with different experiences,” he said. “Adopting these new technologies in an appropriate way – such as the approach we have taken with Transforming Training in Construction – is leading to much better ways of working.”

Indeglas launched the CleverOwl Award to celebrate the contributions of individuals to the entire process in which the built environment is procured, designed, constructed and maintained. It is open to those involved in procurement, supply chain, design, engineering and specialist trade installation in recognition of their unique and outstanding contributions to the industry.