Training update

As we come to the final months of 2021, most of us are thinking: where has the year gone? That said, we have been extremely busy this year. It demonstrates that there are many energy and retrofit professionals who are ready and waiting to learn new things and top up their technical knowledge.

Mitesh Nathwani, Training Manager

Launch of Overheating training and scheme

We were pleased to launch our Overheating course and competency scheme in September. This will be of particular interest to OCDEAs as overheating will be taken out of Part L and SAP assessments when the new Building Regulations come into force in June 2022. Instead a new Building Regulation will be created and supported by a new Approved Document. Therefore, those looking to provide Overheating assessments will need to gain the relevant competence by attending an Overheating course.

Training update

Our Overheating course will also be of interest to NDEAs who deal with new-build commercial properties or want to expand their services.

The course is delivered in conjunction with DesignBuilder where there are two training routes:

n Overheating Training (those with DSM experience).

n Overheating Training with DesignBuilder Dynamic Simulation Training.

More details can be found on the training calendar, and if you require more information we are always happy to advise.

Securing subsidized training for members

We were delighted to be chosen by government to deliver training for the Green Homes Grant skills training competition. Training for Elmhurst DEAs wanting to upskill to become Retrofit Assessors was provided at a subsidized rate, which allowed many members to gain new skills, expand their businesses and generate new sources of income.

Competency and qualification courses

qualification and competency based courses. Although the stamp duty holiday is now over, the demand for the courses has not reduced and to ensure we meet demand we are planning to put on more Domestic Energy Assessor courses than ever before, even taking our courses back out to other parts of the country like we used to prior to Covid-19 (i.e. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).

The next year promises to be extremely busy for different reasons. Where we had the Government funded Retrofit Assessor courses keeping us busy through most of 2021, next year we will have over 20 new courses coming your way. This coupled with the significant increase in frequency to our qualification courses, will see us using more external venues and experienced trainers than ever before.

To ensure this can happen, we are streamlining our training processes. Our On-construction strand has recently moved over to the OneFile online portfolio system. The Non-domestic strand will be moving over in the next month or so and then in the first quarter of 2022 we will move our Domestic Energy Assessor course over to OneFile as well.

As you can see, we have been extremely busy lately and I can see it remaining this way for a long time to come. To help us remain the number one training provider in the industry we will need more trainers to help meet the growing demand. Therefore, if you have experience in either the On-Construction (new builds) strand or the Non-Domestic (commercial property) strands and have some training, teaching or coaching experience, we would love to hear from you.

Finally, I would just like to say here’s to 2021, and let’s look forward to 2022 and all the opportunities that will bring. Have a great end to the year and festive season to all celebrating and I look forward to seeing or speaking to you soon, stay safe and take care.