Worcester wins OFTEC Awards 2007

Worcester, Bosch Group has been awarded both National Training Centre of the Year and Regional Training Centre of the Year in the 2007 OFTEC Awards for Excellence.

Worcester secured the two prestigious awards at a gala dinner and presentation ceremony held in London on the 28th September.

Worcester beat off fierce competition to secure the top spots for both the National and Regional Training Centre of the Year for its training facilities at its headquarters in Worcester.

With over GBP3 million investment this year into the training and customer visit facilities, these training facilities have become a favourite with installers nationwide.

Phil Bunce, training manager for Worcester, attended the ceremony to collect the awards.

He said "We are delighted to receive these two coveted OFTEC awards as we are committed to continually enhancing our training facilities.

"New for 2007, we have invested significantly into training, which has seen our facilities in Worcester grow from a training academy to a training village.

These new facilities are first class and include a dedicated OFTEC room, which contains 13 operational boilers for training in a wide variety of scenarios.

As well as a dedicated renewables room for in depth training on solar thermal packages and ground source heat pump installations and dedicated gas and oil-fired boiler rooms This added investment in our training village in Worcester has already proved hugely successful in aiding our outreach to oil installers.

It's a fantastic central location and the facility is well suited to providing first class training.

In fact Worcester will even come to you if you can't visit us.

We have two fully equipped mobile workshops to which there are 4 working oil-fired boilers within enabling OFTEC 101 and 105e training and certification to take place regionally".

After training over 12,000 people in 2006, Worcester has set a target to increase that figure to 14,000 this year.

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