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Online Skills Bootcamps & Courses for UK Builders

Are you a builder looking to gain new skills? Grow your business? Or specialise? Thinking it's time to get digital? Or are you looking to get into the industry? Whichever the reason, the HBXL Skills Academy is here for builders and construction businesses of all shapes and sizes.

What is the HBXL Skills Academy?

HBXL Skills Academy is for anyone in construction taking their next step on their career or business journey. You could be starting your career, reigniting your career, upskilling, starting a new business, expanding a business, promoting best practice in your business… Our online training courses open doors – either getting the next role, recruiting talent, or winning new customers. HBXL have been in the construction industry for over 20 years and know what it takes to succeed in the sector. That’s why we’re your perfect training provider, wherever you are in the UK.

Construction makes a huge contribution to the economy. Yet the UK construction industry has a serious skills gap and labour shortage. Building firms are crying out for new talent. The industry wants more diversity and inclusivity. The opportunities are there. There are valuable roles within the sector that are off the tools and require a different set of skills to the ones needed on site. This is a great time to develop laptop-based digital expertise. Excited? Take a look at the many opportunities with the HBXL Skills Academy.

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The online courses that will take you to the next level

Business Management Skills

The business side of construction is crucial to success. Our courses give UK builders the all-important skills in admin and management.

Gain Business Skills

CAD For Construction

Being able to draw extensions, new builds and loft conversions using CAD is a great skill. And you’ll learn from an experienced, friendly tutor.

Learn CAD

Estimating For Construction

Learn to price jobs accurately, present to the customer well, know your overheads from your VAT. Always practical and relevant.

Explore Estimating

Short Online Courses

From business skills to health & safety, these value-for-money courses are generally 60-80 minutes long, and progressed in your own time.

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Why learners choose HBXL Skills Academy

Learn New Skills

Past trainees talk about the huge amount of knowledge they gain from the course. All practical, all relevant to today’s construction industry.

Free Software Usage

HBXL are behind the UK’s leading construction software for small to medium sized residential building companies – and you will get to use it.

Expert Tutors

Your tutors all have years of experience, either in the construction industry or in senior business roles. They’re super supportive and friendly with it.

Funding Options

Apart from our short courses which range from £25 to £169, our 40-hour and 60-hour courses are either fully funded, or typically 90% funded. Win-win.

No Exams

Whether you’ve not long finished school, or it’s a dim and distant memory, you don’t want to be sitting any more exams. So there aren’t any!

Online Delivery

No need to sit in a classroom. We deliver the courses via your laptop to wherever you are. All you need is a good internet connection and a quiet space.

Ofsted Rating

At HBXL we pride ourselves on the quality of our courses. So, we’re really pleased to have the highest possible rating by Ofsted for our current status.

For Everyone

We’re here to help. If you want to get into the construction sector, we can support your journey with practical training. Not all trainees are builders.

Ofsted Report

“HBXL have sought to fill a gap by carefully developing the Skills Bootcamp course content and structure, drawing on their extensive knowledge of the construction industry.”

What our learners say

  • I needed something to give me the confidence. The CAD for Construction course allowed me to learn and ask all the questions.
    Emma Newman
  • The Estimating Skills Bootcamp gave me more confidence in the prices I am putting out. I'm not tempted to knock something off the price to try and win the job.
    Matt Bee

Funding Options

Government-funded Skills Bootcamps

The Skills Bootcamp programme is funded through the Department of Education’s National Skills Fund and forms part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping adults 19+ gain Skills for Life. See what funding you could receive.

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40-hour courses - can be CITB funded

You can apply for financial support from the Skills and Training fund if you’re registered with the CITB, have fewer than 100 PAYE employees, and are up to date with your levy payments. There’s other criteria which we can explain.

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Short pay-as-you-go courses

Pay up front for these HBXL-managed courses (they start at just £25+VAT) and you can log-in whenever you have time. There are discounts for groups of learners and no hidden extras. An easy way for you and your team to keep on top of essential training.

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