The National Service of Training for the Construction Industry is a decentralized public institution of the transport, communications, housing and construction sector. It was created by decree- law 21067 in January 7th of 1975 with statutes by decree-law 21673, of October 26th, 1976.

In exercise of its functions, SENCICO acts with technical, administrative and economic autonomy. Its main functions are:

• Workers training in all occupational levels.
• Research on new alternative secure and economical construction systems.
• The standardization through which technical standards are proposed updated regarding construction.

SENCICO supports regional governments in its training, specialization, retraining and certification activities for construction workers and establishes agreements for these purposes.

The goals of SENCICO are:

• To impart vocational training to industry workers to contribute to the economic development.
• To provide social promotion for workers through integral training to enable them to be useful and responsible citizens.
• To qualify and certify the levels of training achieved by construction workers.
• To organize educational programmes to attend the different needs of the labour market, the workers and the community in all aspects related to construction.
• To develop plans of exchange of knowledge and transference of technology through programmes of technical cooperation at the national and international level.

SENCICO and innovation in construction technologies p. 36

in Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region
Montevideo, 2001.