SummitSkills
First licensed: 01/12/2003
Sector
Building services engineering.
Sector Coverage
SummitSkills is the Sector Skills Council for the building services engineering sector. The sector covers:
design, installation and maintenance of electrotechnical, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing; and
oil and gas fitting design, installation and maintenance.
Sector in Brief
The vast majority of businesses in the sector are micro-businesses and 'one-man-bands' and the majority of them were started by individuals who trained as apprentices in the sector.
The sector is currently experiencing a mini-boom at the same time as it is experiencing a skills shortage exacerbated by the boom-and-bust nature of the wider construction industry.
In addition to the training of new recruits, the sector is also facing the challenge of new technology in the business and engineering processes that companies employ as well as in the new technology that it installs for clients.
Contact Details
Post
SummitSkills
Vega House
Opal Drive
Fox Milne
Milton Keynes
MK15 0DF
Tel
01908 303960
Fax
01908 303989
Email
enquiries@summitskills.org.uk
Web
www.summitskills.org.uk