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Ploughcroft managing director Chris Hopkins visits the Renewable Energy Installer stand at Ecobuild
Ploughcroft’s managing director Chris Hopkins is calling on renewable energy installers to provide questions for him to bring up at meetings of The Green Construction Board.
It may well be tempting to curb your marketing spend following the government’s decision to reduce the Feed-in-Tariff. With the explosion of sustainable energy providers during the past year added to the mix, Laura Jones, marketing manager at MCM Net, looks for the best way to navigate your company through a competitive 2012.
Nu-Heat invited twelve Registered Installers to attend a conference in Corby where they met members of the Nu-Heat sales team to gain an insight into both Nu-Heat and industry news.
Kingspan Water, a supplier of rainwater harvesting systems to the UK building industry, is one of the major partners of a flagship energy training centre at City College Plymouth.
The National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies has appointed Dr. Cathryn Hickey as its executive director. Hickey will be responsible for providing strategic management and leadership to drive the Skills Academy forward in its objective to deliver high quality, accredited environmental technologies training.
The secretary of state for energy and climate change, Chris Huhne, visited the headquarters of Worcester, Bosch Group to see the extensive manufacturing and training facilities and talk with staff at the company. Following his tour of the factory, where condensing boilers are manufactured, and its £1.5million training academy where thousands of installers attend courses throughout the year, Mr Huhne praised the company’s focus on training for installers and apprentices.
Charlotte Leslie MP has officially opened the NAPIT Bristol Training Centre – as part of its joint venture with Plumb Center and Sevenoaks Energy Academy.
Renewables for building designers will be held on 7 – 8 December 2011, BRE Watford.
For anyone booking this course before 30 November 2011 the cost is only £450+VAT (enter discount code: ITR1)
Renewable energy can play a key role in reducing carbon emissions from the built environment, and is required for most new build projects to achieve building regulations and planning requirements. Renewables are becoming increasingly popular as a retrofit option into existing buildings to take advantage of the introduction of the Feed-iIn Tariffs (FiTs) and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to be launched soon.
The Alumet Group have picked up the Green Manufacturer of the Year Award. In front of a range of manufacturing businesses at the first Made in the Midlands Awards Gala, the Warwickshire-based organisation collected the award from Michael Portillo, fighting off competition from the likes of Denso Manufacturing and Synseal Extrusions.
Plumb Center and Parts Center are offering deals on Testo flue gas analysers to their customers until February 2012 – and six lucky installers will also scoop a thermal imaging camera worth over £1,800.
Within the UK there are around 120,000 registered gas service engineers but only 45,000 currently use analysers.
NAPIT, the government-approved register holder for more than 8,500 registered installers, has joined forces with Plumb Center to offer discounted membership to customers of the national heating and plumbing specialist.