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Green Skills and Retrofit Skills Bootcamp

Course Code: BCGSRT
  • Level: 2
  • Qualification: Award
  • Awarding body: AIM, National Open College Network (NOCN)
  • Duration: Seven weeks
  • Course type: Short course
  • Time of day: Daytime
  • When you'll study: Fridays, 9.00am - 4.00pm

What's it all about?

The Green Skills & Retrofit Skills Bootcamp is focused on developing a greater knowledge of the retrofit agenda. Upon successful completion, you will gain a Level 2 Award in Understanding Domestic Retrofit.

This is a 60-hour course delivered over seven weeks via blended learning, which includes a mix of in-person sessions at the College’s state-of-the-art green skills construction facility and online learning.

Course information

This course will cover:

  • the use of thermography equipment to survey and understand building construction
  • external wall insulation
  • loft insulation
  • heat pumps
  • assessing for retrofit
  • surveying and building pathology in retrofit
  • upskilling on low-carbon technologies
  • PVs, solar hot water heating, and battery storage
  • drone surveying and thermal imaging (with the potential to gain a CAA drone flyers ID).
You will have access to a suite of online learning modules which can be selected from to work through at a pace that suits you outside of classroom hours.

This course is suitable for both novices and professionals who are already working in the sector. 

You will be assessed through an online test at the end of the course.

Upon successful completion, you will be offered an interview with a local construction company with active vacancies.

Please note fees are quoted for one year only.

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