The UK's construction industry must hire more than 400,000 workers every year for the next five years to build enough homes to meet demand.

That works out to the recruitment of one new construction worker every 77 seconds until 2021, according to construction consultancy Arcadis.

This is due to ever-increasing demands for building homes, as well as a workforce that is shrinking due to demographics, with not enough new recruits replacing those who are leaving.