NEWS Training
The firm has been running courses for over 20 years and is offering classroom and practical instruction at its training centre in Leeds. Designed from starter to expert, topics range from how to install commission and maintain systems to advanced techniques in maximising energy efficiency. They also include a regulatory reassessment course in F-Gas categories 1-4 for attendees to keep ahead of the fast approaching bans on refrigerants, quota reductions and the move towards low global warming potential refrigerants. Airedale will also continue to offer CIBSE accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training which can be tailored to specific needs.
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Opened in April 2016, the Leeds training centre has a training classroom featuring the latest conferencing technology; air conditioning and refrigeration training rigs demonstrating different refrigerants and the latest in measurement and testing technology – including air ducting, measurement
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and chilled water systems, brazing area equipped to provide new and experienced learners with the necessary skills required to correctly install refrigerant pipe work; and an electrical area designed to give a practical understanding of safe working when designing, wiring and testing electrical assemblies as well as the correct fault finding techniques
South Eastern Regional College (SERC) has been named as an accredited Fujitsu Training Academy. The Academy is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland and has been designed to support the industry with skills development.
To officially launch the Academy, Fujitsu has donated an industry standard heating and air conditioning system to the College which will ensure that future engineers have the skills to operate and maintain modern heat recovery technology. Fujitsu has donated and installed the new system at the college’s Lisburn campus which will be used to upskill both engineers already working in the sector as well as SERC apprentices.
Martyn Ives, technical manager at Fujitsu Air Conditioning, said:
“We have been very impressed with the College and the vast array of equipment that apprentices train on and are delighted to have the opportunity to provide equipment that will enhance training and skills development. Air conditioning systems offer simultaneous heating and cooling to different parts of a building to maximise energy efficiency. Engineers working on them need to have the appropriate training.” The collaboration between SERC and Fujitsu will equip the workforce with the latest skills base, help with career progression and meet the increasing demand for highly skilled engineers.
Building engineering services employers have been reassured that new routes to professional certification will be made available by the passing of revised F-Gas handling legislation next year.
There was widespread alarm at the announcement that the CITB is to close its Utilities Engineering Division, which provided training and certification for the gas, electric, water, oil, refrigerant, steam and renewable industries in January. In particular, companies working with refrigerant gases, whose staff are legally required to carry F-Gas certification, were concerned about the apparent gap in provision. However, DEFRA said the legislation would pave the way for the creation of new schemes and it has already approved the BESA (Building Engineering Services Association) which operates the Refcom safe refrigerant handling scheme, as an F-Gas certification body.
BESA chief executive Paul McLaughlin said: “We are delighted to have received approval from DEFRA to help plug this vital gap in certification.”
He stressed that there was no need for employers to seek immediate re-certification via alternative providers as their existing CITB certificates will remain valid until their printed expiry dates and the new BESA scheme will be in place from next year.
The association, which has been providing specialist training and certification for more than 25 years, said F-Gas would be the first of a series of new BESA certification programmes and would be followed by ventilation; health & safety; unvented hot water; energy efficiency and renewables; and ventilation hygiene.
BESA training director Tony Howard said: “The new regulations offer a catalyst for BESA to disrupt the traditional certification market. Historically, we have delivered training and certification ourselves using third parties with assessments we developed.
“We now intend to grow and develop training, assessment and certification to enable employers in our industry to access the provision they need at a local level through licensed providers audited against our standards.”
The development of new style apprenticeship training is also taking place alongside the changes to certification and the association said the government’s new ‘Trailblazer’ apprenticeship scheme was an opportunity “to radicalise provision of training in the sector”.
8 December 2016
www.acr-news.com
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