Pat Bowen, Green Deal Alliance with a focus on building fabric

Green Deal Alliance with a focus on building fabric: Possible Implications for Apprenticeship Pat Bowen Future Skills Manager CITB-ConstructionSkills

Low Carbon Programme Drivers Climate Change Act 2008 80% reduction in emissions by 2050

Energy Act 2011 Green Investment Bank, Green Deal Finance Mechanism + Energy Company Obligation

Green Deal Est. 65,000 jobs by 2015 Est. ÂŁ7bn annual investment Retrofit 14 million homes

Green Deal Skills Alliance 3 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) working together to ensure that the right skills are in place for the Green Deal.

Green Deal Assessment/Advice.

Green Deal Installers: insulation and building fabric.

Green Deal Installers: environmental technologies and building engineering services.

Green Deal Skills Alliance: ConstructionSkills, Asset Skills, SummitSkills

Employer Investment Fund (UKCES) EIF 1 Green Deal Competency Framework (2011-12): • Preparing the Skills Landscape for the Green Deal – Identification (occupations, qualifications, provision) – Enablement (refresh quals, new quals, training materials) – Raising Awareness

EIF 2 Low Carbon Challenge (2012-14): • Supporting Skills Development under the Green Deal – – – –

Further development and testing of Phase 1 outputs Working with early adopter exemplars Improving access to information Training Provider Capacity Building

How can installers comply?

• Only installers authorised and certified under a new Green Deal standard will be able to undertake the work.

• The PAS 2030 standard will be implemented through certification bodies, using existing structures

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Installers will need to: Carry the Green Deal Mark; Take full responsibility for quality; and Comply with the requirements set out in the Green Deal Code of Practice.

Common Minimum Technical Competencies (CMTC) • are used by the Competent Persons Scheme Operators (CPSOs), DCLG etc. as a minimum ‘level’ • when CPSOs measure competency for GD they will look for all of the technical competencies to be covered across the entity or individual • holding a route technical competency you will still need to cover the non-technical (by annex) section of the PAS 2030 (if appropriate) http://cutcarbon.info/green_deal_cmtc

Publically Available Specification 2030 (1) • provides a specification for the installation of energy efficiency measures in existing buildings.

• is a quality standard against which installers must demonstrate they can provide installations to specifications •

• works alongside the Green Deal financing mechanism, and ECO and sets out skills, qualifications etc. contains the installation processes required, for each measure, management of the installation, and quality of service pre/during/post installation. http://shop.bsigroup.com/en/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030248249

Available QCF Qualifications • Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Insulation and Building Treatments (IBT) − loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, external wall insulation, internal insulation, draught-proofing, insulating framed sections

For NVQ Assessment: •

Construction Awards Alliance: www.caalliance.co.uk lists all registered UK assessment centres.

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Scottish Qualifications Authority www.sqa.org.uk

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Awarding Body for the Built Environment www.abbeqa.co.uk

Apprenticeships / New Entrants •

Specialist Apprenticeship Programme in external wall insulation: • Comprehensive 2-year EWI training programme leading to NVQ level 2 Insulation and Building Treatments.

• National Specialist Accredited Centre (0300 456 5561).

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Traditional apprenticeship pathways for Insulation and Building Treatment occupations now available: • Draft-proofing, Loft, Cavity, External Wall insulation

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Possibility for future additional apprenticeship frameworks to include new bolt-on units

Some of the Green Deal Provider ‘Pioneers’ • • • • • • • • • • •

Anglian Home Improvements British Gas Carillion Enact Energy E.ON Gentoo Group Keepmoat Kingfisher Mark Group Willmott Dixon Energy Services Yorkshire Energy Services

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Note full list at: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn12_042/pn12_042.aspx

Installer Skills Needs for Green Deal Day

• Better understanding and integration across trades House

An view from E.ON (1)

An view from E.ON (2) • E.ON have created a £100,000 package (for)… the recruitment of 100 young jobseekers (16-24) into energy efficiency apprenticeships from across England and Wales who will be trained as external wall insulation installers • apprentices will be employed by E.ON’s network of suppliers, they will earn a working wage from their employer …

• E.ON want Employers to show leadership by:  Employer Ownership of Skills  Engagement & Collaboration  Clear Expectations and Demand and skills organisations to respond with flexibility, pace and fresh thinking. http://www.slideshare.net/sustainableCoRE/insulate-moderate-generate-by-ted-miller-eon

Useful contacts • National Occupational Standards www.ukstandards.co.uk • Qualifications www.ofqual.gov.uk • Apprenticeship Frameworks www.apprenticshipframeworksonline.semta.org.uk • Cut the Carbon Campaign www.cutcarbon.info