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The industry needs over 42,000 more managers by 2010 to meet an estimated 12.7% boom in construction output over the next four years, a new report is predicting.

Each year until 2010 construction needs to attract on average 10,530 more managers per year, says the 2006 Construction Skills Network report published by

According to the report, the industry needs to attract 348,000 more employees over the next four years to deal with a labour shortfall, an average of 87,000 per year.

This means missing managers represent 12.1% of candidates that the industry needs to attract during the period.

But Sheila Hoile, skills strategy director at CITB-ConstructionSkills, said there is "no shortage of applicants to the industry" and said the main reason for the report is to help firms plan their recruitment strategies.

However, she did call on the industry to make more investments in training: "One of the biggest challenges is to ensure than new and existing workers have the right qualifications, but we cannot do this alone," she said.

The report also found that the Olympics would not have a detrimental effect on regional construction projects. This comes in spite of expectations that workers may move to London or the Southeast to take on Olympic work.