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British Gypsum announces 4th UK training
centre
British Gypsum is to open a fourth national Drywall Academy training centre to meet the growing demand for skills training in the UK.
The new centre, which will also house the company's South West Regional Office, will be located to the south of Bristol, just 2 miles from the M5 motorway It will serve the busy South West and South Wales area and will bring professional industry training to within a maximum 2 hours travelling distance for virtually all of the area's contractors, merchants and specifiers
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new 3500 sq.ft.Bristol centre will join existing Drywall Academy training centres at East Leake near Nottingham; Kirkby Thore in Cumbria and Erith in Kent, plus satellite training centres which the company operates in association with local authorities and local building colleges, to provide a comprehensive national drywall training network for British Gypsum, who opened their first UK drywall training facility in 1966.
The new centre, due to open in late May 2008, will initially focus on delivering the company's latest 'Pure practical' training courses for merchants and contractors, and will expand this to include the full range of system-based courses plus CPD training for architects, later in the year.
Drywall Academy Manager, Jonathan Cherry, says the new centre will provide much needed support for the region, and will also help to take pressure off the other UK training centres, which are currently operating at full capacity to meet the growing demand for EWPA (Experienced Worker Practical Assessment), drywall apprenticeships and merchant training.
"Skills training is one of the biggest challenges facing Construction today", he said, "particularly if the industry is to meet the Government's programme for new house building, rise to the Olympics challenge, and continue to develop a more professional image to attract desperately needed new blood into the business".
"I am pleased that British Gypsum is continuing to show the way through major new investment in this key area".
As new home to the company's South West Regional Office, which is relocating from its previous base at Malmesbury, the new centre will also accommodate the region's full team of sales and specification personnel, who will support existing customers and projects, as well as spearheading new sales development in the area.
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