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Training A
pprentices in Scotland have six new routes to specialist qualifications thanks to the
work of the building engineering sector’s leading skills organisation. The new qualifications are the result of a two-year collaboration between members of the trade bodies Building Engineering Services Association (BESA); SNIPEF and SELECT through their joint venture BSE Skills, which was created to replace the sector skills body SummitSkills. The six new pathways have
now received approval from the Scottish Qualifications Authority and comprise: SVQ in Heating and Ventilating: Ductwork Installation
SVQ in Heating and Ventilating: Ductwork Planning and Installation
SVQ in Heating and Ventilating: Industrial and Commercial Installation
SVQ in Install, Commission and Maintain Air Conditioning Systems
SVQ in Install, Commission and Maintain Refrigeration Systems
SVQ in Service, Maintain and Commission Building Engineering Services.
BSE Skills manages and develops apprenticeships, qualifications and National Occupational Standards for the building services engineering sector across the UK. “These are exactly the kind of
innovative approaches to training a
new generation of building engineers that employers have been calling for,” said Head of BESA Scotland and Northern Ireland Iain McCaskey. “We are delighted to have gained approval for the qualifications, which will provide a welcome shot in the arm for skills development in Scotland. I look forward to the new qualifications being ready for the new intake of apprentices starting on the 28 September,” added Mr McCaskey, who is also a director of BSE Skills.
T
he Heat Pump Association (HPA) has launched a Training Strategy that lays out how the
heating industry needs to transform to enable the wider adoption of heat pumps throughout the UK building stock. The upskilling of heating installers provides the potential for long-term job growth at the same time as helping to achieve net zero emissions; something that could form an important part of a ‘green recovery’.
The Strategy contains five clear steps for how a plumbing and heating engineer can be trained to meet the new challenges we face in trying to achieve the UK goal of a zero carbon future, reducing administration cost, and recommending to government that they support a training voucher scheme for the first 5,000 installers to go through the new course. The Strategy comes at the same time
two industry-wide consultations are published on qualification criteria for training courses. Graham Wright, chairman of the HPA, said: “The Committee on Climate Change has made clear that we need to move to heat pumps taking over from gas boilers as the default replacement heating system within the next 10-15 years. This is
ambitious, but entirely achievable if we move now to retrain and up- skill a market that already exists of around 120,000 existing heating engineers. The role of installers cannot be underestimated in decarbonising heat. The Strategy we are launching today, together with the consultations on qualification criteria released earlier this week, are
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