As a result of the Renewable Heat Incentive, it is estimated that the demand for renewable heat systems will grow exponentially. In order to receive the government funded incentives, customers have to use an MCS Certified Installer. The MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme) requires installers to meet a uniform set of standards in the form of document control, procedures and the competencies of staff carrying out the work.
It is with this in mind, that Rexel have joined forces with EcoSkies to offer training packages, designed to help you meet these requirements. EcoSkies are the UK's Longest established independent Training provider totally dedicated to renewable energy installer training.
Courses available (detailed below):
RHI / Renewable Heat Sales & Basics Training Course
Solar Thermal Domestic Hot Water Course
Domestic Heat Pump Installation
2 Day BPEC Renewable Energy Awareness
Working at Height
Unvented Hot Water Systems Course
WRAS Water Regulations Course
Woody Biomass Boiler Installer training Course
Understanding Roof Structures
RHI / Renewable Heat Sales & Basics Training Course
RHI offers customers better payback than Feed in Tariffs!
Find out how to help your customers to take advantage of amazing returns on investment available NOW by using the recently launched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). EcoSkies are first, yet again, to pioneer a new training course to the sector and we want to continue to working with you, our trainees. We’ll assist you in growing your businesses as we see the power shift to a renewable energy sector that is more balanced across several technologies rather than just PV.
There will come a time when having someone dedicated to winning your company business will need to be trained quickly and cost-effectively. What better way to kick-start and deepen your company’s understanding than by training with the UK’s most experienced renewable energy private training provider which is also an accomplished and MCS Certified installation business?
Course Objective:
The course will focus on the hard facts and figures, features and benefits which make RHI such an incredibly attractive proposition to customers of all types and sizes. It is not an installation/technical course. It will develop your knowledge and ability to identify and understand the function of various system components, “best match” for your customer,
estimated ROIs and the fundamentals of the RHI scheme.
Course Outline:
Covers everything a budding renewable heat tech. sales professional needs:
• Understanding the RHI & associated schemes’ principles;
• Estimating payback periods & example Return on Investment (ROI) calculations;
• Solar Thermal, Biomass Boiler & Heat Pump system components & layouts;
• Basic thermodynamics theory & principles;
• The solar resource (inc. SAP calculations);
• Microgeneration Certification Scheme;
• Tax issues (inc. Capital Allowances & VAT);
• Understanding & selling key features, benefits and limitations to RHI-eligible tech.
• Sourcing leads & effective routes to market, tips on web based marketing; and
• Qualifying leads / fact finding, the sales visit & basic assessment.
Certification: ECO Certification, Certificate of Attendance.
Duration: 1 Day 9.30 – 4.30pm.
Locations: Chesterfield, Watford, Crewe & Spennymoor or mobile (groups: call for details)
Price: £295 +VAT for existing customers, £395 to new customers (Inc. lunch & tea/coffee)
Entry Requirements: None - Course is suitable for anyone involved in the sales process.
Solar Thermal Domestic Hot Water Course
This course aims to provide candidates with the knowledge to be able to propose, site survey, design and install domestic or small commercial solar hot water systems. Contents cover primarily North European, fluid filled, indirect solar water heating systems. Including fully filled sealed systems, drain-back system, flat plate collector, Heat Pipe, Direct flow evacuated tube collectors.
Course outline
- Regulations and standards
- Internal and external site surveys
- Collector types
- Installation materials and methods
- Solar heated storage types
- Filling & Commissioning
- Solar primary system types
- Servicing and fault finding
- Basic system design & integration
Certification
Logic Certification
This course is designed for experienced heating or plumbing professionals. Candidates should hold G3 certificate in Unvented Hot Water Systems. Basic electrical experience desirable.
Entry Requirements
Candidates should hold G3 certificate in Unvented Hot Water Systems OR be taking the 1-day course the day prior to (or immediately following) this course. WRAS Water Regulations 1-day course is also recommended for MCS compliance. Basic electrical experience is desirable.
Noted exclusion from training & assessment: This course is not intended to cover roof or access work in detail but does cover the legislative requirements, risk assessment requirements. Please also have a look at the Work at Height for Solar Installers course details. Where ever practical we would recommend the use of an experienced roofer to install the collectors (see www.nfrc.co.uk ) although collectors will require connection at roof level by a plumber, so those wishing to carry this work out should be comfortable and experienced working at height.
Domestic Heat Pump Installation
The content of this course is aimed to enable candidates to confidently propose, survey, design and install domestic or small commercial heat pump installations, enlisting manufacturer's support where required.
The size of installation covered – up to 24KW for ground source and up to 16KW for air source.
Course Outline
- Background to market
- Pre-installation requirements
- Regulations and guidance
- Installation materials & methods
- Principles of Operation Filling, Flushing and testing
- Collector types
- Setting to work, commissioning
- Heat distribution
- Servicing and fault finding.
Certification
Logic Certification
2 Day BPEC Renewable Energy Awareness
Experienced heating or plumbing professionals who want to expand their knowledge and skills to include installation of heat pumps. You may also wish to consider our Underfloor Heating Course. G3 unvented certificate is a mandatory minimum.
This course is suitable for planning and building control officers, architects, self-builders, non-technical staff in renewable energy installation companies.
It will NOT provide enough information to allow you to undertake installation but will give a better understanding of how the technologies work and basics of their installation.
Technologies covered
Introduction to renewable energy
Solar Thermal Water Heating
Biomass heating systems
Heat Pumps
Wind Power
Photovoltaics
Micro-Hydro Power
Certification
BPEC
Entry Requirements
None
Working at Height
The Solar PV MCS Installer Standards state explicitly that you must have a training record for Safe Work at
Height training(along with technology specific training).
This course provides you with that proof of training and is fully mapped to the ACWAHT (Advisory Committee on Work at Height Training) Syllabus which is recognised by the HSE.
Short courses that are not mapped to ACWAHT are likely to not cover all topics that should be addressed.
Upon completion of this course, participants will recognise the main causes of height related accidents during high level work and be able to choose the correct access and hauling procedures to minimise the risk of damage and injury. They will also be able to select, check and safely use items of personal fall protection equipment in compliance with work at height regulations.
Certification
W.A.H. Ltd
Unvented Hot Water Systems Course
Course Objective:
This course is aimed at experienced plumbing and heating operatives who require a qualification in the installation, servicing and maintenance of unvented hot water systems from 15 to 500 litres. The course has recently been updated in line with the Part G Building Regulation and also includes new information and guidance on accumulators.
Course Outline:
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Regulations, standards & guidelines
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Principles of hot water storage
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Theory & understanding of expansion of hot water
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- Accumulators
- Safety controls, discharge & integration
- Maintenance & servicing
- Installation of unvented HW cylinders
- Health & Safety
Certification:
Logic Certification
WRAS Water Regulations Course
Course Objective:
This one day course has been designed for those installers who need to gain the required knowledge of the Water Regulations 1999 before either applying to join their local water authorities "Water Industry Approved Plumber Scheme", or one of the plumbing competent person schemes. The course includes a comprehensive guide and workbook and is fully
recognised by WRAS as meeting their qualification requirements. A certificate and card will be issued to the successful candidate.
Course Outline
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Interpretation & definitions
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Materials and substances
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Requirements, design & installation
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Backflow & contamination prevention
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Hot & cold water services
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Flushing devices
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Sanitary appliances, both internal and external
Certification:
Logic Certification
Woody Biomass Boiler Installer training Course
With the advent of commercial Renewable Heat Incentives and domestic-scale to follow, biomass is expected to play an important contribution in the renewable energy mix.
Course Objective:
The aim of this course is to provide experienced plumbing and heating engineers with the practical and theoretical knowledge required to effectively install and maintain biomass based heating systems and to assist in Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) accreditation for this technology.
Course Outline:
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Background to market
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Applicable Regulations and Guidance
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Principles of Operation
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Examine modern wood heating
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Heat distribution
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Pre-installation requirements (fuel prep.)
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Installation materials & methods
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Chimneys and control systems.
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Setting to work, commissioning
- Maintenance and fault finding
Certification:
BPEC Certification
Entry Requirements:
This course is designed for those who hold a formal qualification such as NVQ3 (or equivalent) in plumbing or heating engineering. OR have documented proof of 2 or more years experience in plumbing or conventional heating and hold a pre-requisite HETAS 2 Day heating engineer’s certificate. Candidates should also hold WRAS and G3.
Understanding Roof Structures
A Solar Installer's Essential Guide
Are you aware of the most up to date best practice developments and the extent to which you are impacting on the structural integrity of each and every one of your customers' roofs?
Developed and managed by Whitespace Renewables LLP, member of the Royal Instituted of Chartered Surveyors, “Understanding Roof Structures: A Solar Installer's Essential Guide”, does exactly what it says on the tin!
With the ever-changing regulatory, advisory and best practice landscape of the Solar PV installation industry, it is increasingly important for installers to understand the full implications of fitting solar panels to customers' roofs and also to be able to identify the key tell-tale signs of potential problems.
Course Objectives:
To impart knowledge of roof structures and coverings from a Chartered Surveyor’s & Structural Engineer’s point of view. The knowledge gained is designed to help the installer understand the potential problems associated with retrofitting PV array installations. This understanding builds the confidence required in discussions with potential customers.
Course Outline & Content:
Covers most aspects of a domestic roof that an MCS PV installer needs to know.
The need for roof surveys
• Roof Structures – The component parts
• The different types of residential roof structures
• The different types of residential roof coverings
• The potential problems
· Overloading
· Wind
· Snow
· Structural Condition
· Infestation
· Rot
Duration: ½ day course
Training & Assessment Methods: PowerPoint/lectures, discussions, Q&A, workshop
Various Locations Available
Entry Requirements:
Candidates MUST be an MCS certified PV installer OR in the process of going for their MCS and have completed Solar PV training with EcoSkies.
New! Certificate in Domestic Energy Assessment (DEA) (Level 3 QCF)
INCLUDING: 2012 DEA Professional Development “1 Day Update”
Do you want a future in Solar PV? Want to offer Domestic Renewable
Heat Incentive or be halfway to becoming a Green Deal Assessor in Autumn 2012?
If the answer is “YES!” then, in all likelihood, from April 2012 you will have to produce an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for every home that you are planning an installation for if it is to be eligible for the top FIT and RHI rates.*
Take control and get approved yourself / get some of your surveying team approved and produce EPCs when you want, save your business money and retain control.
Course Objective:
The ABBE CertDEA & DEAProDev. are professional qualifications for those who wish to pursue certification as a DEA. Once qualified, DEAs register with an Accreditation Scheme, some of which are free, which accredits them to produce EPCs (cost £5-10) for individual existing homes. From April 2012 EPCs can only be produced by qualified energy assessors who have also completed the 2012 DEAProDev. “1 Day Update”.
Course Outline: (What most training centres DON’T tell you until you’ve paid….)
This course and qualification will operate slightly differently from what you are used to doing here at EcoSkies. Over the 3 days, you will learn about domestic building structures and energy supply and management so that you can correctly identify the wide range of building features used in UK housing. You will of course also learn how to conduct an energy assessment of a property. YOU WILL ALSO DO THE 2012 UPDATE MODULE AS PART OF THE 3 DAY TRAINING COURSE.
Your actual assessments come in 3 forms:
1) In your own time, post-course, you need to compile a portfolio of work including - among other things - 5 examples of properties for EPC assessment; and 2&3) Separate online multi-choice exams for the DEACert and DEAProDev. Qualifications will be sat at a later date of your choice, at a 3rd party site (e.g. driving test centre.)
Certification: (ABBE) Awarding Body for the Built Environment
Duration: 3 Days training, 9.30am – 4.30pm. (Plus coursework portfolio & external exam.)
Price: £1095 +VAT (INCLUDES YOUR £380 EXAM FEES – 2 attempts for this price.
(Most training centres hide the fees from you until you pay for the course.)
Locations Available: Dagenham, Chesterfield, Spennymoor, Watford & Crewe
Entry Requirements: Basic literacy, numeracy and computer literacy are a must.
To find out more details on course dates and locations, please call any member of the Rexel Renewable Team on Tel: 020 8596 7483