Training and Development

Farrans Construction and Civil Engineering

A commitment to learning

A commitment to learning and personal development is one of the keys to success in the modern workplace. Our award winning in-house training scheme, Farrans Advance, focuses on giving our people the knowledge, tools and support they need to maximise their performance, learning and development.

Training evolution

Since its formation in May 2009, Farrans Advance has evolved into a training programme that supports the development of our people and improves our company’s performance using a structured training framework.

Period 1 - Building Strong Links

Customised training agreements were developed with a number of professional bodies to give our engineers and surveyors the help and support they need to achieve chartered status.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Period 2 - Building the New Training Framework

In October 2010, Farrans Advance entered the second stage of its development. We began building a training framework that would support the Continued Professional Development of our people through the Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited Employer Scheme. We adopted the 8-best practice criteria that would enable organisations to underpin their core business strategy with a flexible responsive learning environment and in March 2011 we earned our CPD Accreditation.

Engineers Ireland cpd Accredited Employer

Period 3 - The New Age

In 2011, we entered a new age in training. Our newly formed training committee began developing a strategy to improve the company’s performance through training. Targeted training would be designed to meet our key business objectives including:

Increasing efficiency
Improving quality
Reducing the carbon footprint
Increasing profits

Since its formation two years ago, we have invested in excess of £250K in the training and development of our people through Farrans Advance and implemented a series of initiatives such as FEED, Focus and Lean to ensure we maximise the performance, learning and development of our people.

The effort and dedication shown by our training team and staff was recognised throughout Ireland on 5^th October 2011 when Farrans won the prestigious Engineers Ireland CPD award for large-sized companies.