28 October 2024
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Ideal Heating Commercial is delighted to have won a coveted BESA award for Training Provider of the Year, which was announced at the BESA Industry Awards 2024 on 17th October at The Brewery, London. This is the first year this specific award has been introduced by BESA, which aims to place a spotlight on the increased need for training and skills.
Ideal Heating Commercial has a long history of providing training; recently it has made a substantial investment in to its Expert Academy training facilities and expanded the type and breadth of its commercial courses, as well as now offering educational CPD seminars which cover the latest industry developments.
The range of CPDs are designed to provide customers with the knowledge they need to successfully specify and design commercial heating systems. CPD seminar attendance has increased dramatically in 2024, delivered nationwide by the Ideal Heating Commercial’s specification team. The company is also working with BESA to make the CPDs available through its online platform
The product courses now provide training across its complete range of products, including its latest ECOMOD commercial heat pumps. Although many of these learning opportunities have only recently been introduced, the numbers delivered clearly impressed the judges.
Commercial product courses are delivered by dedicated, directly employed Expert Academy training managers – and never subcontractors - whose extensive experience and qualifications across the heating and gas industries provide customers with invaluable insight and technical knowledge. A simple step-by-step approach is taken, incorporating ample opportunity for hands-on learning to ensure all aspects of installing, commissioning, servicing, and fault finding can be dealt with quickly and efficiently. Feedback has shown that this ability to get truly hands-on, interactive training has been key to the success of these courses and has led to repeat bookings and consistent five out of five ratings. Each course can be customised to ensure it meets the needs of individual installation and servicing companies.
Training is available through Ideal Heating’s BESA, BPEC and City & Guilds assessment Centres of Excellence at Bridgehead in Hull, Leeds and Dalgety Bay, plus its recently opened centre in Luton. All these premises have been completely refurbished to convert them into state-of-the-art training facilities, with Ideal Heating commercial product displays installed so attendees can get interactive, hands-on training. In addition to dedicated training centres, a special mobile Evomax 2 boiler rig takes training on the UK's number one commercial boiler direct to customers’ sites.
Andrew Johnson, Training Director for Groupe Atlantic UK, ROI & NA, of which Ideal Heating Commercial is part of, commented: “We are proud to be recognised by BESA for our training provision with this award. A core company principle is to make Expert Academy training as accessible as possible, so the majority of Ideal Heating Commercial training is provided either free of charge or on a very low cost basis, which we consider to be fundamentally important.”
In addition to winning BESA Training Provider of the Year award, Ideal Heating Commercial was also pleased to have its very own Emily Wright shortlisted in the H&V Industrial & Commercial Apprenticeship category.
