Daikin launches Manufacturer Hub with National Skills Academy

Daikin Airconditioning UK has joined forces with the National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies to create its first national Manufacturer Hub. The pioneering Daikin UK Manufacturer Hub is the first to be developed by the Skills Academy to provide bespoke training for an individual manufacturer’s products. It will complement and interact with the Skills Academy’s network to enable trainees to gain qualifications in air-to-water heat pump technology, allowing them to work towards to Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) accreditation and be fully qualified to install Daikin renewable technology systems.

The Skills Academy provides training in the design, installation and maintenance of technologies such as solar thermal, photovoltaics, heat pumps and water harvesting and recycling. Comprising 23 ‘hub’ colleges, the Academy works to offer accredited environmental technologies training, all of which meets the requirements for MCS certification.

The Daikin UK Manufacturer Hub will be based at all five vocational training partners with whom Daikin UK has already formed partnerships from 1st October 2012. These partners include City of Bath College, West Suffolk College, College of North West London, Dudley College and PGL Training in Exeter.

Around 100 colleges, universities, manufacturers and other training providers across England and Wales are currently accredited under the National Skills Academy banner. Together they deliver a range of environmental technology courses that have been approved by SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering.

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