Our Guarantee
In all our courses, our pass rates are over 95% - first time! So you can be very confident you’ll achieve. But in the unlikely event you do fail a course, as long as you have completed the theory and practical training parts to your tutor's satisfaction, you can retake the course free of charge. Click here to see our pass rates for 2007/8.
Help with paying
We offer easy payment terms on all our courses and assessments and we can help you find competitive loans too. Some training also qualifies for government funded grants and subsidies. Read more »
Trends & Importance of CPD
Building services is changing. Are you keeping pace to provide what consumers want and to work lawfully?
It’s never been more important to invest in your own professional development. There are new modern methods of construction. Householders are demanding more environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient systems. And regulation is on the increase.
By law, trades people must hold the appropriate safety certificates. Failure to do so can result in lost income and fines and in some instances it may even invalidate insurance claims and result in custodial sentences. The introduction of Home Information Packs means many more householders will be asking for certificates for work done too, so holding those ‘tickets’ that allow you to join Competent Persons Schemes is going to be increasingly important.
The need to conserve finite resources such as fossil fuels is vitally important and the exploration and implementation of alternate energy sources and more efficient systems is a major consideration in the construction industry today. Solar power, heat exchange units, micro-wind turbines, rain-water harvesting, grey water usage – the list goes on. Then there’s the new wave of modern manufactured solutions which is radically changing the way projects are delivered. For example new Integrated Plumbing Systems (IPS), including toilet, basin and urinal installations which can simply be ‘plugged in’ to buildings. Prefabricated domestic hot water services, controls and power distribution solutions, pre-plumbed, wired, tested and supplied as ready to use modules. There are newly developed electrical test and inspection techniques including thermal imaging which provides a preventative-maintenance tool to help highlight developing faults before they become a costly problem.
This is the future for building services. And it will be those trades people who keep pace and become skilled and qualified to deliver what the consumer wants who will be tomorrow’s ‘winners’.
So wherever you are in your career now and whatever you want to achieve, with the range of courses we have and will continue to develop, you have the ability to manage your own professional growth. The focus of the courses we offer to you as a professional are based firmly on results – the benefits that they can bring you in the real world. It's about where you want to be, and how we can help you get there.
So what do you want to offer tomorrow that you can’t offer today?
To learn more about what we can do to help you become more successful call us now on 0800 783 7073.
