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YOUR KEY MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS AND HOW YOU CAN GET MORE INVOLVED WITH THE CIPHE
Last year’s runner-up, Paul Clark EngTech MCIPHE (right) with Tim Sainty
TIM SAINTY
CIPHE membership director Tim looks after the growing CIPHE membership, enhancing services for members and improving communications tims@ciphe.org.uk +44 (0)1708 463102
ENTER THE HEATING INSTALLER AWARDS 2022 TODAY!
Entries for the awards close on 28 February.
You can submit your entry by visiting www. heatinginstallerawards. co.uk/enter and fi lling in the short entry form.
Alternatively, give the awards team a call on 0161 871 1188 and they’d be happy to take your entry over the phone.
AWARDS
It’s your chance to win industry-wide recognition – as well as a host of prizes – if you enter before the end of February
This is the last chance for you to enter the industry-famous Heating Installer Awards, which has returned for a seventh year, and is supported by the CIPHE for the third year running.
Designed to champion the heroes of the industry who often go unnoticed, the awards recognise installers who go to great lengths to deliver incredible levels of service and the highest quality installations for their customers.
As well as the CIPHE, the awards are supported by Armacell, Big Wipes, DanfossLG, Polypipe and Stelrad. They are completely free to enter and give installers the chance to showcase their work to potential customers. To enter, installers are encouraged to submit a case study of a project that demonstrates not only fantastic results, but clever product selection and problem-solving skills.
There is a prize bundle worth over £10,000 on o er for the fi nalists, including CIPHE memberships, a toolkit worth £600 and money-can’t-buy prizes from the award’s sponsors, including a trip to Denmark.
Regional competition
The awards will recognise winners from each region across the UK, who will then have the chance to go on to be crowned the National Heating Installer Awards winner 2022. The awards will also be searching for two special category winners: Rising Star, for the industry’s best apprentices, and Most Sustainable Installer, which recognises those who are doing everything they can to minimise the impact of their work on the environment.
After entries close in February, an expert judging panel made up of industry professionals and award-winning installers will choose the regional fi nalists as well as an initial shortlist for the two categories. The overall winners will then be decided by a combination of judges’ scores, peer-reviewed technical challenges and a public vote, with the two category winners, the national winner and the runner up announced in June at the NEC.
Entries for the Heating Installer Awards will close on 28 February. Regional winners and category shortlists are announced on 11 April, when the public will be able to vote for its winners until 23 May.
ACCREDITATION
Join WaterSafe with Welsh Water (Dŵr Cymru)
Gareth Harris, Water Regulations Technical Manager, Welsh Water, on why CIPHE members should join WaterSafe
At Welsh Water, our vision is to earn the trust of our customers every day by delivering high quality, essential services that protect our customers, their communities and the environment. One of the many ways we earn that trust is by ensuring that plumbing installations that we supply comply with The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999, whether that be changes to their existing supplies or the installation of a new supply.
The Water Fittings Regulations apply to all plumbing systems, installations, water fittings and equipment that is supplied from the public water supply and applies to systems in all types of premises. We have a duty to enforce these regulations on behalf of the Welsh Government and DEFRA, which means we can also be audited by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) to ensure we are enforcing correctly.
One way of ensuring compliance is using suitably qualified and experienced professionals when carrying out any works. We actively support the WaterSafe scheme and promote the use of its members to all our customers. We want to ensure our customers have access to suitably qualified and experienced local plumbers who have knowledge of the regulations.
Plumbers have told us that one of the biggest challenges in joining WaterSafe is having the recognised Water Regulations training. To help with this, here at Welsh Water, we have developed a one-day training course to help qualified plumbers obtain a qualification in Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999. In having this training, plumbers can then sign up to WaterSafe free of charge through the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering.
As a CIPHE Registered Plumber (RP) it has never been easier for plumbers to join WaterSafe. Membership is free for CIPHE members with the necessary qualifications, so all you have to do is complete the CIPHE/ WaterSafe registration form available here: www.ciphe. org.uk/ globalassets/. application-forms/ ciphe_watersafe_2fill _v4.pdf
If you hold a plumbing qualification but are missing this specific qualification, Welsh Water can offer you our one-day training package completely free of charge!
As part of the training, we’ll help with getting you signed up as a WaterSafe plumber by guiding you through the paperwork.
Once you have the WaterSafe stamp of approval, you will benefit from free promotion in your local area from Welsh Water as well as access to free guidance and advice.
If you’re interested in signing up for the one-day training, please complete the expression of interest form available here: www.dwrcymru.com/en/ help-advicewater- regulations/ watersafe -plumbers
Alternatively, for more information on the training we offer or details on the benefits of the WaterSafe scheme, you can contact us at water regulations@ dwrcymru.com
EVENT
Escaping the jaws of death?
The population of London is growing whilst its supply of drinking water is falling. Without radical changes by 2050 there will be a substantial shortfall of drinking water, but what happens and when, and how do we tackle it?
Join The Worshipful
Company of Plumbers
Annual lecture as experts from Thames Water and University College London, alongside a wider pool of water industry and plumbing professionals, debate the challenges and look at the proposed solutions. Join our debate and find out whether we will be drinking Perrier Water in 2050.
When: Monday 16 May
2022 at 5pm
Where: The Royal
College of Physicians, Regents Park
Tel: 020 7628 8880 Email: clerk@
