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Where Have All the Quantity Surveyors Gone?

Demand Continues to Outpace Supply Despite attractive salaries, strong project pipelines and geuine career opportunities, finding experienced Quantity Surveyors is proving increasingly difficult. This isn’t simply a recruitment challenge. It’s a talent challenge affecting the wider construction industry. Construction remains … Continue reading

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Is it time to stop hiring for materials and start hiring for skills?

To explore this issue further, Annie Parker, Head of Design and Technical, ran a LinkedIn poll asking: “How transferable do you think design skills are between Timber and Steel?” The results were revealing: 69% said skills are somewhat transferable with training … Continue reading

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UK Talent and Australian Demand: What Our Latest Poll Tells Us

At ARV Solutions, we work closely with businesses and individuals across offsite construction, timber frame, modular building and wider modern methods of construction. The poll results reflect what we are seeing more broadly. There is a growing alignment between UK … Continue reading

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ARV Solutions Team Go Caffeine Free

🚨 April Fools Update: Caffeine Withdrawal Was Never on the Table If you saw our recent announcement about moving to a fully decaffeinated office… ….we hope you enjoyed the brief moment of confusion. And to be even clearer: it would … Continue reading

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Sustainability in Recruitment – Understanding the Challenges

At ARV Solutions, we recruit across the offsite, modular,  timber frame/ engineering, construction and manufacturing sectors, where sustainability has and remains an important consideration. At the end of last year, I  was keen to establish how improvements made across our … Continue reading

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Skills Shortages – think differently

When businesses come to market to hire experienced design and technical professionals, they are often faced with a surprisingly small and highly competitive talent pool. The challenge is not always that suitable people do not exist. More often, those professionals … Continue reading

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ARV Solutions Salary Guide – 2025/26: planning ahead for smarter hiring

Whether finding the market challenging, looking for growth, or in full on growth mode already finding good people in the offsite and MMC landscape, is often about planning ahead, rather than just filling a job.   A Clear View of the Market  … Continue reading

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Closing the Construction Skills Gap: Building the Workforce of the Future

  At ARV Solutions, we’ve been supporting the sector for over 23 years, helping companies attract and retain the talent they need from an ever tighter pool of people. While our heritage covers the construction industry as a whole, we have … Continue reading

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ARV Annual BBQ

Once again, our  Directors Deb and Jim Roach threw open their doors (and garden) for the  annual summer BBQ, continuing the tradition of thanking the team and  their partners by feeding them and encouraging questionable competition in the name of … Continue reading

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Industrialised Construction – thoughts?

We’ll soon be attending the Industrialised Construction Conference at the MTC Coventry – 2nd & 3rd July. The term “Industrialised Construction” is a relatively new one, and I am intrigued as to whether it is the future, whether it will … Continue reading

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