You will prepare and submit a term paper on Challenges Facing the Construction Industry Today. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. The construction industry is one of the major sectors that contribute to the development of any country. Therefore, it remains a key force to boost the economy. To realize this, there is however a need to produce professionals in the construction industry that would be able to handle various problems in this profession. In addition, the construction industries face challenges mainly the demand for changing skills in various construction-related professionals. On top of this, the fast-moving of technologies, the high rate of global expansion, shifting business models, mergers, and acquisitions have facilitated the demand for professionals who are well equipped with the skills required to handle problems that would be faced in the construction industries.

According to the Guardian (2012), therefore having a comprehensive system of vocational training to equip employees with skills goes hand in hand to solve the demand of changing skills in the various professionals in the construction industry. It would be fair to state that most construction companies in the UK, Europe, and Sri Lanka have particular skills and training challenges as a result of being mobile and segmented with high levels of subcontracting and self-employment.

In the journal Resource and Information in Industry Skills published in 2012, it asserts that unlike in the past, one can only be allowed to work with a construction company if they have a “certificate” of competence a show that they have the necessary skills and experience to cope with the challenges in the field of construction. In Europe, there is the National Construction College that trains employees and other professionals in the field who have been encouraged to further their education in colleges and other institutions of higher learning. Just Like any other professional body in other professional fields like law, medicine the professions in the construction industry have organizational bodies that protect their members’ rights and ensure that clients get the best services.

Write 2 pages with APA style on North American Indian Culture That Flourished before the Arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors.

One of the key characteristics of Native Americans is their unique genealogy, which derives from African and Asian populations.&nbsp. Although this connection is not the most intuitive, anthropological studies using genetic markers have substantiated this understanding.&nbsp. In the late medieval period, they were believed to have adopted a hunter-gatherer mode of life.&nbsp. It is an important revelation, for everywhere else in the world agriculture and urbanization has already become entrenched.&nbsp. Bison was a great stock prey during the time as the ecology of the Great Plains suited it well. In many of the cave paintings from this period, we can see how bison was an emblematic animal for the entire community.

The breadth and width of the continent’s landscape, with its varied climates, geographies and ecologies, made adapting to local conditions an imperative. As a result, we see a different set of customs and norms being practiced in the Great Basin, Pacific Coast or Eastern Woodlands.&nbsp. Likewise, in contrast to the widespread adoption of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, native Indian cultures of South-western and Woodland Burial Mound regions practised agriculture. The social organization of these regions was also different, in that they were chiefdoms, with a definite hierarchy among its members.&nbsp.

Just as Spanish Conquistadors started trickling into the continent in the late 15th century, the Meso-American culture became predominant.&nbsp. This unique culture retained many key traits of the community’s traditions while also including new elements that they were introduced to.&nbsp. It is an unfortunate fact of history that despite the amicable and warm welcome of the conquistadors by native Americans, the former did not reciprocate the hospitality.&nbsp. After having acquainted themselves with the exotic culture of the natives, the conquistadors systematically proceeded to dominate the defenceless natives.&nbsp. Those who had the courage to resist domination and exploitation were ruthlessly rounded up and executed. As a consequence, within a few decades of the arrival of the Spanish expeditions, the Native American population diminished drastically.&nbsp. This pattern has continued for a century or more and reached a point of near-extermination of these people.&nbsp. It continues to remain one of the greatest acts of genocide in the history of humanity.&nbsp. It is all the more tragic because the culture and social values of the victims were very rich and vibrant.&nbsp. The proof for this assertion lies in the great colour and wisdom of their customs, practices and norms witnessed at the time of the arrival of the Spanish expeditions.&nbsp. Their lives during this period were far from barbaric as the perpetrators of their oppression would have us believe.&nbsp.