About 22,500 construction jobs could be created in the North West over the next five year, according to figures from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).
CITB's Construction Skills Network (CSN) report said sector employment could reach more than 299,000 by 2020.
Employment is set to rise by 1.6 per cent a year on average in the region, faster than the national rate of 1.1 per cent.
An annual average growth rate of 2.6 per cent is predicted in total construction output between 2016 and 2020, slightly above the UK rate of 2.5 per cent.
The infrastructure sector is likely to be the best performing in the region with an annual average increase of 5.6 per cent, boosted by a number of current and new projects.
These include work on the £290m, 10km long dual carriageway linking the A6 to Manchester Airport and the nuclear power station at Moorside in Cumbria.
To support the growth, CITB has joined forces with the construction industry to expand Go Construct, a web portal that provides information on construction career opportunities.
Steve Housden, CITB sector strategy manager for the North West, said: "We can't build the Britain we want without apprenticeships and the careers they lead to.
"That's why we want these new statistics, showing solid, sustained growth, to inspire more people across the North West to start apprenticeships, and more construction firms to take them on."
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