Yearly Archives: 2015

BPEC are now offering OFTEC’s Solid Fuel courses which cover dry and wet installations: • OFT15-108(D) – Installation, commissioning and servicing of solid fuel burning appliances (dry space heating) • OFT15-108(W) – Installation, commissioning and servicing of solid fuel burning appliances with space heating and hot water heating. The above courses will allow you to […]

Based in Witney, Oxford Energy Academy is Oxfordshire’s leading specialist training centre for plumbing, heating and gas engineering training. In the Autumn of 2014 their new training centre for Apprentices was opened by David Cameron. After a successful first year the number of apprentices enrolling in September 2015 was more than twice the number who […]

Reminder to centres sending in result, candidate application and assessment paperwork for BPEC Services products. Once training/assessment is complete and the documentation has been signed by the trainer/assessor, the Candidate Result Form must be forwarded to BPEC for external verification along with the candidate application form and completed assessment paper work. The centre shall: 1. […]

The government is unlikely to hit its renewable energy targets if it doesn’t come up with a credible plan, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has said. Top of the agenda at last month’s meeting of the Energy & Climate Committee was a letter written by the Energy Secretary, which had been leaked to the Ecologist website. […]

UK’s top apprentices and learners in training to be best in the world. The UK has announced its chosen Squad for WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017, the biggest vocational education and skills excellence event in the world, at The Skills Show, which took place at the NEC Birmingham from 19 to 21 November. The apprentices and […]

The SkillPLUMB competition 2015 has named 29 year old Richard Wilson from North East College Scotland and SugPlumb Ltd, UK champion after excelling in an intensive three-day practical exercise at the Birmingham NEC Skills Show. Closely watched by judges and over 75,000 visitors to the show, Richard and his fellow finalists had to simulate the […]

SummitSkills are the UK Standard Setting Organisation for the building services engineering (BSE) sector. The BSE sector represents the electrotechnical, heating and ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration and plumbing industries. Click here to apply.  

This new training has been produced to cover the installation of standard water connections and the laying of associated apparatus from the property boundary to the first internal water fitting after the meter. Both the training and booklet are specifically for designers, installers and site managers who are an integral part of ensuring there are […]

£41,525 has been given in charitable donations by training and certification provider, BPEC, to projects that use plumbing skills to enhance the lives others less fortunate either here in the UK or abroad. At its fourth Life Award presentation ceremony held at Derbyshire County Cricket Club, on Friday 16th October and attended by over 100 […]

Seven young apprentices recently received certificates and prizes for being the first cohort of JTL apprentices to have completed their BPEC Level 3 Plumbing Qualification at Hull College. The event was held as part of the on-going working partnership between BPEC – the British Plumbing Employers Council – and JTL, the leading provider of apprenticeships […]

The UK Smart Metering Program helps meet the demand for new Gas Engineers entering the industry to work on the ongoing Smart Meter exchange program being conducted by the UK energy providers. BPEC now offer a Managed Learning Programme dedicated to candidates who wish to join the industry specifically to carry out meter work. The […]

Improving skills in new water efficient technologies is the focus of a pan-European project that sees SummitSkills contributing its expertise in skills training and qualifications. The AquaVET project involves organisations from Greece, Netherlands and Spain, along with SummitSkills representing the UK, to look at how vocational education can fully embrace new technologies linked to water […]

The 1st October ACS Disc has been postponed until 1st January 2016. This has been requested by EU Skills Standards and Development Unit to allow Certification Bodies time to format the assessment documentation to cover the new Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure (GIUSP) and BS 7967:2015.  It is highly likely that there will still be […]

BPEC have now updated their Domestic Ventilation Installer manual to cover the Scottish Regulations. There is also a Scottish theory assessment which is now available via the Centre Login area of the BPEC website.

As part of BPEC’s commitment to quality training we will shortly be introducing a programme of External Verification visits to centres delivering non-QCF training and assessments which includes the Mapped Renewable Technologies.

As part of BPEC’s commitment to quality training we will shortly be introducing a programme of External Verification visits to centres delivering the Gas Foundation Managed Learning Programme. The need to carry out the visits is also a requirement of the changes to the ‘Standards of Training in Gas Work’ which is overseen by EU […]

A pilot scheme is being launched by the JTL charity, in conjunction with BPEC and the Carl Burrows Trust (CBT), to provide a bridge for school leavers prior to starting work, further education or as an ideal entry route to an apprenticeship. Companies offering a four week work experience placement will not have any financial […]

A young apprentice from Northern Ireland has been rewarded for his skill, professionalism and quality of work with a gold medal in the international WorldSkills 2015 competition. Gary Doyle, 21, is celebrating after his win after going head to head with talented plumbers from 27 other countries. The event, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was […]

BPEC are delighted to support The Scottish Auto Cycle Union (SACU) – Team Scotland in this year’s International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) taking place in Slovakia during September 2015. Financial assistance has been provided to SACU through the BPEC Sport Award to support a team of 3 riders competing in this year’s International Six Day […]