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The latest wave of funding from the Department of Education under its ‘skills bootcamp' scheme, should provide a boost for plumbing and heating installers as well as electricians looking to upskill into renewables. Griff Thomas, from GTEC, highlights concerns of potential frustration amongst training providers and installers.
Viessmann Group has taken a majority stake in Pacifica Home Services Ltd. (PHS), simultaneously backing the management team's reinvestment.
Following the publication of the Heat and Buildings Strategy, funding has been allocated to a series of low carbon heat network projects.
MCS has announced fundamental changes to its heat pump standard.
In this study, this 200-year-old property is set in the Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire, and is undergoing a renovation by its owners. The new owners wanted to remove their ageing boiler as part of their modernisation of the property.
British Gas rolls out heat pumps with a boost for future installers – plans for 20,000 new heat pumps in the UK and 3,500 new apprentices.
A free webinar to support Mitsubishi Electric’s new CPD guide: ‘Multi Residential Buildings; heating, hot water and ventilation’ is set to go live on 3rd February at 2pm.
MCS has called for ‘lessons learned’ and ‘more clarity’ about payment, in response to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme consultation, which seeks views on Ofgem’s proposal for the new grant.
Wolseley UK has been crowned as a top employer by the Top Employers Institute, a title which is awarded to organisations that demonstrate ‘dedication to building a better world of work as exhibited through excellent HR policies and people practices.’
In a bid to inspire installers of the future for a low carbon future, Panasonic has partnered with the Sparks series of events, where UK college lecturers will 'meet the manufacturer' cross the UK throughout January and February.
Vattenfall and Feenstra have teamed up to launch a simple and affordable heat pump system that could be a replacement for traditional gas central heating boilers.
REI is, once again, pleased to be an official partner of the ever-popular Low Carbon Homes’ retrofit conference, which will take place in Liverpool from 18-20 January.
Grant UK is welcoming Steve Farrow as its new area sales manager for East Anglia to provide support to installers, engineers and merchants on all its heating products and services.
Grant UK has called for installers to ‘adapt very quickly’ to recent changes in the official Building Regulations, describing them as ‘a real beginning for the decarbonisation of heat’.
Colchester Football Club has been repurposed as a vaccination centre during the pandemic, and a Grant Aerona³ air source heat pump has been installed to keep this essential resource up to temperature.
At Vaillant’s high-tech centre they go to great lengths to ensure that products are up to the job. Heat pumps are tested to the extreme as explained by Mark Wilkins, technologies and training director at Vaillant.
Panasonic air-to-water Aquarea heat pumps are providing energy-efficient heating and hot water to the Wicklow Hospice in Ireland.
As the industry evolves to meet government targets to decarbonise homes across the UK, just how confident is the workforce to tackle the challenges ahead? Is the need for upskilling and retraining regarded as a positive step forward and how will installers navigate the surge in demand for heat pumps and updated installations?
through the replacement of millions of fossil fuel heating systems, the report overlooks a vital ingredient - the workers.
LG has launched the latest version of its sector leading Therma V Monobloc air to water heat pump – the Therma V R32 Monobloc ‘S’.
The G1 Installer Scheme is Grant UK’s loyalty programme for heating engineers who fit Grant oil boilers and renewable technologies.
As we approach the launch of campaigns such as the Boiler Grant Scheme, due for release in April, as part of the government’s plans to drive down the cost of low carbon heating technologies, we believe reflection on past scheme failures will be the key to moving forward effectively in the future.
RSK Group Limited has announced the acquisition of four businesses, including heat pump specialists, across the environmental services sector.
rces with Wynnstay as their recommended partner for renewable energy advice and installations for their agricultural customers across England and Wales.