Skip to main content

Volvo CE's training accreditation

Volvo Construction Equipment Division, Volvo Group UK has been awarded full accreditation as a skills training provider by The National Skills Academy for its paver applications training course. As part of a European initiative by the company to launch a Road Institute training programme focussing on providing contractors and industry bodies with quality training for their paving personnel, the Volvo dealership in the UK has achieved accreditation with The National Skills Academy for Materials, Production a
February 17, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
2394 Volvo Construction Equipment Division, Volvo Group UK has been awarded full accreditation as a skills training provider by The National Skills Academy for its paver applications training course.

As part of a European initiative by the company to launch a Road Institute training programme focussing on providing contractors and industry bodies with quality training for their paving personnel, the Volvo dealership in the UK has achieved accreditation with The National Skills Academy for Materials, Production and Supply.

The training courses, held at Volvo's purpose-built customer support centre at Immingham, County Linconshire, eastern England, are designed to improve the knowledge and understanding of paving techniques by means of classroom-based theory and practical, hands-on experience operating Volvo road equipment.

Since its inception in the UK, 359 Volvo CE has held six such courses since the start of the year with "extremely positive feedback" from course students and the companies sponsoring them including Lafarge, Eurovia and 1146 Balfour Beatty.

Graham Crawshaw, from the MPQC (Mineral Products Qualification Council) and training auditor for Proskills, said: "I'm very happy with the course structure, the balance of the theory and practical elements of the course and the way the information is being given." Presenting Volvo CE with its accreditation award at Immingham, Proskills network development manager, Richard Bloxam, said; "Accreditation marks out those training providers that offer specialist and high quality training to our sector. Volvo Construction Equipment Division is now one of 30 training organisations that have achieved our high standard and the first industry supplier to achieve accreditation."

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Colas UK takes Covid-19 precautions as it starts on Lincoln road contract
    April 8, 2020
    Colas is providing routine and emergency repairs for traffic signals in Lincolnshire county.
  • Speeding repairs of concrete motorway
    April 2, 2014
    A novel technique is now being introduced in the UK that can help cut construction costs, as well as the time needed for road repairs. Connect Plus, the company that finances, operates and upgrades the 400km M25 network on behalf of the UK’s Highways Agency, has pioneered an innovative method for the replacement of life-expired concrete motorway The introduction of this method is helping reduce the delays experienced by drivers by as much as 80% in the sections of road where it is now being implemented.
  • New design consultant partnership
    July 7, 2017
    A new strategic design consultant partnership is now being formed between infrastructure group Balfour Beatty, Atkins, Mott MacDonald and WSP. The collaborative UK Strategic Design Consultant Partnership is said to offer a new level of openness, collaboration and innovation for the construction industry.
  • Attitude is key to sustainability, says Volvo CE’s Thomas Bitter
    June 27, 2018
    Whether you are in the global Volvo Ocean Race or working on-site locally, sustainability is about attitude as much as technology. David Arminas reports. Technology, sustainability and safety. We ignore these often related themes at our peril. This was the key point made by Volvo Group chief executive Martin Lundstedt during his brief opening presentation at the start of the Building Tomorrow Conference in Spain last October. The conference took place within the harbour of Alicante that was bustling wit