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Mark Group reveal new academy dedicated to creating a 'green army' of renewables technicians

Wednesday 21 November 2007

Leicester’s Mark Group has revealed the opening of a new training academy dedicated to creating a thousand strong “green army” of renewables technicians.

Mark Group have recently opened their new academy at Beaumont Leys, Leicester – a vocational facility dedicated to training a new generation of instillation technicians.
Around 1,000 people are expected to be trained as installers – their skill set once ‘graduating’, encompassing a whole range of renewable technologies including solar power,insulation,photovoltaics and wind turbines.

The academy will help provide a huge amount of jobs for the environment sector, falling in line with the Prime Minister’s call this week for the UK to take a global lead in tackling climate change and in doing so creating thousands of jobs in the process. Mark Group’s academy will seek to do just that, training and developing a new generation of renewables experts and technicians who will form the ‘domestic front line’ in the battle against climate change.

Bill Rumble, MARK Group Director, said: “We welcome the Prime Minister’s environment plans as a real step in the right direction in the task of arresting climate change and reducing the UK’s carbon emissions.
“ The Mark Group agrees with Gordon Brown’s assertion that the UK can take a global lead in tackling climate change and in doing so generating thousands of jobs. We are wholly committed to the training and development of a new generation of ‘green technicians through our academy, who we see as the domestic front line in the battle against climate change. “

Gordon Brown’s environment plans also focused on the ‘Green Homes’ initiative – an eco advice hotline launched to help householders reduce their carbon footprint, which the Prime Minister called ‘the biggest improvement in home energy efficiency in our history’. The Mark Group already provides a similar expert advice service to its customers with help provided in accessing grants to offset the cost of insulation and guidance with making people’s homes more energy efficient.

Another area the Mark Group would like to see more attention given to in future environmental proposals from the Government is insulation. Of the 26 million properties in the UK, around nine million homes are without cavity wall insulation and 11 million homes without adequate loft insulation. But if everyone in the UK installed loft insulation up to 270mm thickness, the equivalent savings would pay the energy bills of 640,000 families in the UK.

The carbon savings to be made by simply installing cavity wall and loft insulation deficit are massive. Once again if everyone in the UK installed loft insulation up to 270mm thickness
it would cut carbon emissions by 7 million tonnes – enough carbon dioxide to fill the new Wembley stadium 900 times over.

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