Einars’ Story – NVQ Level 2 in Saving Lives AKA Passive Fire Protection When you’ve got a bad back and it’s up against the wall, change careers! That’s exactly what Einars Bortkevics did. The 34-year old Latvian swapped the back-breaking toil of dry lining for a less taxing career in passive fire protection. Through Greater […]
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Employer Spotlight: NVQ Funding Boost For Energy Efficiency Group Energy Efficiency Group is a gas and insulation firm carrying out retrofit and installation work in the North of England and the Midlands. We’ve been working with them since 2022, helping them gain insulation NVQs for their team. The Group focuses on domestic insulation and retrofit
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Valentine VS Paperwork – Valentine’s Story “I’m just old school, stuck in an old way and paperwork has never agreed with me,” said painter and decorator, Valentine Coleman. We replied to that using an ‘old school’ rebuke: Cobblers! Fifty-six year old Valentine from Ely in East Cambridgeshire is about as skilled as it’s possible to
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Employer Spotlight: Easy Green Homes One of the many insulation retrofit firms we work with is Bolton-based sustainable living specialist, Easy Green Homes. Easy Green covers a wide range of energy-savings measures including gas fired condensing boilers, advanced heating controls, and home insulation improvements. Easy Green is one of hundreds of firms in the UK
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“THIS NVQ HAS GIVEN ME MORE OPTIONS!” – SCOTT’S STORY We’d like you to meet Scott Brunning – a 51-year-old self-employed bricklayer from Bury who recently achieved his NVQ Level 3 in Bricklaying with us. The NVQ was Scott’s second bricklaying qualification (when he did his first one Down Under, Mrs Mangle was still in
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Employer Spotlight: MAC Roofing & Contracting Ltd MAC Roofing & Contracting Ltd is one of the largest roofing and cladding firms in the UK. Formed in 1975, they’ve been waterproofing British buildings for nearly half a century (as a rule of thumb, if you’re under a MAC roof then you won’t need a Mac raincoat).
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Employer Spotlight: GB Builders Despite forming during the height of the pandemic, Wigan construction firm, GB Builders, has gone from strength to strength. We met up with co-founder, John Gaskell, a former DMR graduate in NVQ Level 3 in Occupational Work Supervision, to find out how they’re getting on. Hi John, can you start by
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Retrofit: Live From The Central Belt We’re reaching outside the borders of England for the latest DMR learner interview. The operator has hooked us up on a direct line to the Central Belt of Scotland and we’ve got Stuart McGill on the other end. Stuart is an insulation installer and retrofit professional from Armadale, West
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Jay K’s Going Deeper Underground Literally – he’s an under floor insulation installer. Regular followers of our social media channels know we like peppering our posts with music-related puns. In March, we wrote a post featuring one of our NVQ achievers, Jay K, and infused it with references to Jamiroquai. Back then, Jay K was
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Everything you need to know about the CITB levy and accessing CITB grants for construction NVQ achievement.
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