The Chartered Institute Of Building (CIOB)-backed ACT-UK Simulation Centre - the UK's first construction management simulation centre - is on course to open in September in Coventry.

Work on the centre is progressing well with a topping out event held at the end of last year and the building due for completion this summer. It will deliver construction management training featuring a pioneering form of simulation training using virtual reality. The centre has already sold nearly 800 course days to UK construction companies and training organisations.

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The training facility will recreate, in exact detail, an actual construction site using virtual reality. The three-dimensional computer simulation of the construction project will be projected on to a 12-metre panoramic screen in the Simulation Centre.

Trainees work in actual site cabins and will be given realistic site management scenarios to deal with - based on real-life situations - with site personnel, colleagues, and members of the public played by professional actors. The scenarios test trainee managers' development of management, knowledge, decision-making and people talents.

A CIOB visit to the Centre, at the Coventry University technology park is planned for later this year.

(CD/JM)