This is my opportunity to introduce myself to those who don’t
know me and to perhaps quell a few fears and doubts about the way forward.
My initial background is as a Quantity Surveyor in private
practice, moving on to Building and Land Surveying as the construction industry
went through many changes in the late 1970’s and 1980’s. I thoroughly enjoyed
working within the construction industry and feel honoured that I was
personally involved in the development of many interesting projects throughout
the South of England.
In the late 1980’s the UK went through one of its regular
recessions, and I was fortunate enough to be offered a full time post lecturing
in a local FE College, with some part time lecturing in University within the
faculty of the Built Environment. Here I lectured in a wide range of subjects including
Building and Land Surveying, Building Law, Building Economics, Planning, and Measurement,
to name but a few.
I qualified as a Lecturer achieving the Certificate of
Education in Further Education, the Diploma of Education in Higher Education,
and the Practitioner Award in Key Skills. I also qualified as an Assessor and
Internal Verifier by being awarded the TDLB Units 32, 33, and 34.
During the later end of the 1990’s I was approached to
undertake research on satellite imagery and the mapping of land using this
technology, later evolving into GPS as we now know it, with vehicle and
personnel tracking, etc. For this work I gained a Masters Degree in Land
Information Management and Mapping.
During the years 2003/4 I decided to take early retirement
from lecturing, and instead ran a self study website providing online tuition
in AutoCAD and 3d modelling, which was very successful.
I have a great deal of experience, and have
always enjoyed working, within the learning environment, always taking a personal
interest in my students and their welfare and development. I am now bringing
this experience to assist those students who are trying to achieve a Diploma in
Domestic or Commercial Energy Assessment, and further, to be available for help
and assistance once the course is completed. The learning experience does not
end once you have been awarded your Diploma, this is only the beginning.
We are all aware of the need to not only reduce our energy
consumption, but to also reduce the enormous quantities of CO2 that we produce
regularly on a daily basis. With the development of new technologies and the
high cost of energy, your role will become more and more important over the
succeeding years.
The industry is going through many changes with some positive instructions from the government
and accordingly we are now providing support for the new Home Energy Advisor role. This, we believe, is the way forward
for all Domestic Energy Assessors and will certainly improve the opportunities for the development of client portfolios.
