Good news on the green economy front. The Government has announced a range of Fás courses aimed at retraining thousands of construction workers in the installation of green technologies in homes and businesses across the country.
The Government, and in particular Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan, has been keen to promote the national roll-out of ‘clean-tech and green’ energy process. The courses announced by Enterprise Minister and Tánaiste Mary Coughlan will enable workers to convert and upgrade their skills to allow them to install the technology as well as carrying out compliance and energy rating assessments.
There will be five course types available:
* Gas safety and installation courses.
* Sustainable energy courses for plumbers, electricians, fitters and other qualified construction workers to design, install and commission domestic solar hot water heating, bio-mass and heat-pump systems.
* Building energy rating courses for suitably qualified participants to produce building energy rating assessor (BER) labels and advisory reports for new and existing dwellings.
* Smart/intelligent building systems to provide qualified electricians or suitably qualified applicants with skills to install, configure and test an intelligent building control system using KNX/EIB technology.
* Insulation technologies and techniques for general construction tradesmen in insulation materials, techniques and technologies, and provides plasterers with external wall rendering techniques for existing and new buildings.
Two more courses are planned for later this year looking at micro-electricity generation through wind turbine energy and also at ‘passive’ house building.
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