New training partnership is Ideal for next installers
BOILER and heat pump manufacturer has teamed up with Derby College Group to train up its current and future installers.
Ideal Heating, which is based in Hull, said the training suite is its first partnership with a UK college to include its equipment – such as high-efficiency boilers and environmentally air source heat pumps.
The training suite has been developed at the Roundhouse technical and professional skills college in Derby’s Pride Park, with Ideal Heating’s team offering training as well as sharing their knowledge with the college’s teaching staff as part of their professional development.
Andrew Johnson is training director of the business, which is part of Groupe Atlantic, and has been running since 1906.
He said: “As one of the UK’s leading boiler manufacturers, we have long recognised the importance of training across the industry to ensure that our products are installed correctly for maximum efficiency.
“We are also committed to playing our part in training the installers of the future and raising awareness amongst young people of the career opportunities available to them.
“We chose to open this new training facility for the East Midlands at DCG because of their amazing facilities and easy access by road and rail.
We chose to open this new training facility for the East Midlands at DCG because of their amazing facilities.
Andrew Johnson
“We look forward to developing the relationship over the coming months – welcoming installers into the facility and sharing our expertise with the DCG teaching staff to ensure students and apprentices are work ready for the exciting developments underway in this industry as part of the UK’s decarbonisation agenda and the drive towards Net Zero by 2050.”
The college’s assistant principal for technology, Brian Malyan, said: “Having the latest training equipment installed here at College is beneficial not only to the local and regional companies who are installing Ideal Heating’s equipment in homes and commercial premises but also to our students and apprenA
who are the installers of the future.
“As a college, we are committed to working with companies across a wide range of sectors to co-design and co-deliver our curriculum and ensure that our students and apprentices have the skills, behaviours and attitudes they need to successfully enter the world of work.
“Our relationship with Ideal Heating is therefore a win/win for the company, local installers and the college alike.”