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NOCN skills passport: digital competence tracking and API links for project teams

April 16, 2026|

Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

NOCN skills passport: digital competence tracking and API links for project teams

First reported on The Construction Index

30 Second Briefing

NOCN Group has launched a digital skills passport linked to its skills hub, giving CPCS and other card holders a secure, real‑time record of certifications, CPD, compliance and skills that employers can verify and share digitally. The integrated platform architecture is designed to sit alongside existing contractor and training systems, providing digital logbooks and API connectivity first tested in the 2021 DigiKey pilot linking skills passports to machine controls on HS2. The passport was trialled in India with Nettur Technical Training Foundation and TCS iON, signalling potential for large‑scale, cross‑project workforce competence tracking.

Technical Brief

  • Platform integrates training, learning, assessment and certification workflows into one competence-management environment.
  • Architecture is explicitly designed to sit alongside contractor and training-provider systems rather than replace them.
  • Secure, verifiable records reduce reliance on paper cards and manual checks at site access and plant handover.
  • For other high‑risk construction projects, similar API‑linked competence passports could underpin machine lock‑out and permit‑to‑work controls.

Our Take

NOCN Group already features in our database for CPCS-backed construction bootcamps (13 April 2026), so a digital skills passport is likely to plug directly into that pipeline of site-ready operatives rather than sit as a standalone credential.

Because this sits in the Software category rather than Training in our coverage, it signals NOCN’s shift from being purely an awarding body towards operating infrastructure for digital verification and workforce mobility across UK and Indian projects.

The link to India via Nettur Technical Training Foundation and TCS iON suggests the passport could underpin cross-border recognition of construction skills, which would matter for major UK projects like HS2 that already draw on overseas labour and plant operators certified under the Construction Plant Competency Scheme acquired in 2019.

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Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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