GREEN SKILLS PROVIDING CUTTING EDGE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN ACADEMY RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT INTRODUCTION The Green Skills Academy is a joint venture between City of and Norton College, supported by B&NES Council, to deliver quality training and up-skilling opportunities to the people of Bath & North East .

Each College provides a training hub, focussing on a particular skills set - City of Bath College delivering training in renewable technologies and Norton Radstock College providing courses on sustainability and the built environment. Why are we here? The Green Skills Academy has been established to improve training opportunities for the unemployed, for young people and Small/Medium Enterprises in B&NES by focusing on emerging renewable/ sustainable technologies and skills.

What are we doing to address these needs? City of Bath and Norton Radstock Colleges are working in partnership to offer a fantastic range of training courses and development routes, many of which will boost chances for employment and progression within the renewable and sustainable sectors.

What principles or beliefs guide our work? In this time of environmental and economic change, we will prepare learners with skills and knowledge for life in a competitive sector. We will equip learners for a workplace that needs well trained

MISSION STATEMENT individuals with skills and qualities to provide an excellent service. FACILITIES Both Colleges have made a commitment to deliver the skills needed by local trades people (both young and adult) and apprentices, along with local unemployed residents. This pledge complements B&NES’ commitment not only to a low carbon society, but also to developing a residential and business community capable of delivering these aims themselves.

City of Bath College has refurbished workshops and classroom facilities at its Avon Street campus to cater for the ever-increasing demand for training in the renewable energies sector. Likewise, Norton Radstock College will complete its ‘Green Room’ development in 2013, creating a bespoke environment for training and assessment.

The majority of courses can also be delivered on-site, allowing learners to train in their own work environment.

The Green Skills Academy is proud to offer this exciting and innovative range of courses from July 2012. CITY OF BATH COLLEGE RENEWABLE ENERGIES COURSES Air Source Heat Pumps Retrofit This course is designed to give an This course will focus on making use of overview of air source heat pumps, energy efficient equipment and utilising including the installation requirements energy efficient materials to improve and commissioning procedures. This existing properties. We will help you to course is designed for installation and develop new retrofit installation methods. commissioning engineers. £645 • 1 week • Level 2 £645 • 1 week • Level 3 Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Domestic Energy Adviser (DEA) This course is intended for qualified This course will provide learners with the electrical engineers, required to install grid training and skills needed to complete connected domestic photovoltaic systems a Level 3 qualification in producing that are either integrated into, or retrofitted energy performance certificates for onto, a domestic dwelling. It is concerned domestic dwellings. Whilst not trade with domestic systems installation within specific, a good knowledge of buildings prescribed specifications and therefore and materials is required, but no formal does not cover the design, glazed or qualifications are necessary. curtain-wall systems. £645 • 1 week • Level 3 £645 • 1 week • Level 3 DEA Green Deal Upgrade Solar Thermal This is a bolt-on qualification for existing The solar thermal training will take you domestic energy advisers who wish to through the process of installation and up-skill and offer impartial advice on Green maintenance, using a range of solar Deal arrangements for domestic dwellings. thermal products. We will demonstrate £645 • 1 week • Level 3 how to create heat energy from the sun’s rays, increasing your ability to warm your Fundamental Principles of Renewable stored hot water and reducing carbon Technologies emissions from carbon fuelled heat Using familiarisation and demonstration sources. techniques you will learn the fundamental £645 • 1 week • Level 3 working principles for each of the heat/ energy producing micro-renewable energy Toolbox Talks technologies - solar thermal, air source This is a series of short seminars on three heat pumps, ground source heat pumps renewable topics: The Green Deal and and biomass. how it affects consumers and individuals; £337 • 1 week • Level 3 Renewable Technologies and what they can do; Retrofitting and how it can be achieved domestically. £20 • 1 week • Love2learn

For information or to enrol, please contact the Student Advice Centre Roper Building, City of Bath College, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1UP Telephone: 01225 312191 ext 715/716 • Email: [email protected] Website: www.citybathcoll.ac.uk NORTON RADSTOCK COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Green Countryside Skills DEA Green Deal Upgrade Get an introduction to three sustainable This is a bolt-on qualification for existing countryside skills - dry stone walling, domestic energy advisers who wish to hedge laying and coppicing. This whole up-skill and offer impartial advice on Green week course will give you an opportunity Deal arrangements for domestic dwellings. to try skills that were once threatened, but £645 • 1 week • Level 3 now provide employment for a growing number of craft professionals. Please be Water Harvesting prepared for physical activity – advice on Learn about using filtration and reed beds clothing and protective wear available. to treat household waste water and visit £325 • 1 week • Level 2 working systems. Grey water harvesting, using rainwater for flushing, rainwater Sustainability Skills storage for irrigation and water recycling An introductory course leading systems for domestic and small industrial you through sustainable skills and business units will be covered. technologies. Taught sessions followed £645 • 1 day a week for 8 wks • Level 3 by mentored workshops. Choose a sustainable topic that interests you and be Sustainable Energy – Growing Biofuels guided through research, project writing An in-depth course looking at how to and presentation skills to produce a grow, harvest and market a range of professional report ready for publishing or woody and non-woody biofuels. We study presentation. Previous topics chosen have the latest technology, future trends and included: small woodland management, realistic opportunities in this expanding organic vegetable production, small industry. Off-site visits to growers, users business recycling and carrying out an and environmental experts included. energy audit. £645 • 1 day a week for 8 wks • Level 3 £325 • 1 day a wk for 5 wks • Level 2 Sustainable Construction, Level 3 Domestic Energy Adviser (DEA) Certificate C&G This course will provide learners with the This assignment-based theoretical course training and skills needed to complete is suitable for people already working in a Level 3 qualification in producing the industry who need to increase their energy performance certificates for knowledge of sustainable construction. domestic dwellings. Whilst not trade The course includes waste management, specific, a good knowledge of buildings sustainable design, air-tight systems and and materials is required, but no formal water harvesting. qualifications are necessary. £645 • 1 day a wk for 20 wks • Level 3 £645 • 1 week • Level 3 Thin Joint Brickwork This quick method of bricklaying will enable existing bricklayers to increase their skills and knowledge of this modern method of construction which can minimise heat and energy loss. A CITB recognised course. £249 • 2 days Retrofit This course will focus on making use of energy efficient equipment and utilising energy efficient materials to improve existing properties. We will help you to develop new retrofit installation methods. £645 • 1 week • Level 3 Sustainable Carpentry Sustainable carpentry provides a range of construction techniques and woodworking methods which are sensitive to the environment. We have developed a range of short courses which will follow these ecological building methods, based around oak timber frame buildings and construction. £various • 1-2 days Toolbox Talks These short seminars cover a range of topics including glazing, insulation, local planning guidance for retrofitting and sustainable living. £20 • 2-3 hours

For more details or to enrol, please contact: Norton Radstock College, Wells Road, Radstock BA3 3RW Telephone: 01761 433161 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nortcoll.ac.uk GREEN SKILLS ACADEMY

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