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Sporty Andy is ADSA’s New Education Supremo
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new education and training supremo has joined the Automatic Door Suppliers Association (ADSA) to help deliver new structures and
policies to support its training delivery and give it “fresh eyes and a new perspective”. Andy Tilley has been appointed as ADSA’s new Business Administrator/Training Tutor & Education. He has a wealth of experience in education and commercial training but is new to the world of powered pedestrian doors. “For me, that’s meant learning the industry
from the ground up and getting involved in day- to-day operations; from understanding how training booking systems operate and how the CSCS card system works, to setting up a training room,” said Andy. “The ADSA team has been really responsive to someone who has come in with a training mindset, set of expectations and even vocabulary totally different to anything it has probably come across before. As a result, we have already made subtle changes to our excellent existing suite of training programmes.” “It takes a lot of courage for people in an already successful organisation to be open to considering
new ways of doing things mooted by ‘the new boy’,” he added. Andy began his career as a sports journalist and in his spare time, still enjoys ‘groundhopping’ - visiting
‘obscure’ non-league football grounds across Europe which he combines with a love of photography. He has worked extensively in primary and secondary education, including with young people who
have special educational needs and disabilities, and as a commercial tutor delivering Health & Safety, Manual Handling, Care Sector and First Aid qualifications to industry and public sector organisations. Andy has also worked with disengaged young people – those who were absent or at risk of becoming absent from education – and over-50s who had been unemployed for long periods. Originally from Derby, and a graduate of Aberdeen University, Andy has an MA Hons in Philosophy,
and AET qualifications in Education And Training and as an Assessor/Coach. ADSA MD Ken Price welcomed Andy to the team: “We are delighted Andy has joined the team. Learning and development is a very big part of ADSA’s ‘offer’. His expertise will help reinforce our output and ensure that it remains robust and adaptable in order to meet the changing needs of our industry.” For more information on ADSA services visit:
www.adsa.org.uk or email:
info@adsa.org.uk
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Vent-Axia Ventilates the Tomorrow Home Project
ousebuilder Lovell Homes has selected Vent-Axia’s Lo-Carbon Sentinel Kinetic Cooker Hood MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery) and the Lo-Carbon NBR dMEV C (decentralised Mechanical Extract Ventilation) as part of its Tomorrow Home project at Cornish
Park in Spennymoor, County Durham. The Tomorrow Home project consists of demonstration homes built to test alternative electric heating systems directly against each other, as well as assessing the effective performance of a range of sustainable technologies, including ventilation. Tomorrow Home features two identical, three-bedroom, semi-detached homes that have been
built to an interpretation of the anticipated Future Homes Standard, with improved building fabric. In one of the three-bedroom homes a Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Sentinel Kinetic Cooker Hood MVHR has been installed, the other has been fitted with Lo-Carbon NBR dMEV C. Lovell Homes are working with Teesside University and the Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre to monitor electricity usage, internal temperature, humidity and air quality within the homes. “Vent-Axia’s Lo-Carbon NBR dMEV C is currently fitted as standard in Lovell open market sales house types, with dMEV recommended as a solution in the Future Homes Standard consultation document. Meanwhile, we chose the Lo-Carbon Sentinel Kinetic Cooker Hood for this trial because we see MVHR as being the most probable ventilation strategy for Net-Zero homes as airtightness is increased. We look forward to monitoring the performance of both these technologies in the two homes,” said Iain Gillies, Divisional Design & Innovation Manager at Lovell Homes. “We want to ensure that the thermal comfort and ventilation meets the needs of our customers. We will also evaluate the experiences of individuals who use the homes.” “We are delighted that Lovell Homes has chosen our Lo-Carbon NBR dMEV C unit and Sentinel Kinetic Cooker Hood MVHR to test in its demonstration homes. The Lo-Carbon NBR dMEV C was designed to achieve the latest Building Regulation ventilation rates while improving indoor air quality (IAQ), using the lowest number of installed fans, and the most efficient and quietest fans on the market”, explains Steve Pearce, Product Manager at Vent-Axia. “Meanwhile, the Sentinel Kinetic Cooker Hood offers whole house heat recovery ventilation combined with extraction during cooking all in one unit, saving valuable space and improving IAQ.” For more details on Tomorrow Home visit: Lovell Tomorrow home
www.vent-axia.com
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