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FEATURE HEADING 8 MODERN BUILDING SERVICES MAY 2022 ACADEMY THE LEADING LEARNING SOLUTION FOR BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERS Enhance your skills, further your career and ensure you remain fully qualified and competent Find out more at thebesa.com/academy • Online regulatory courses • Free online accredited CPD • Face to face training • Apprenticeships PEOPLE Lochinvar promotes Ashplant to key sales role Commercial hot water, heating and renewables company Lochinvar has appointed Dave Ashplant as its new southern regional sales manager. He has been promoted to his new role after more than two years as area sales manager for London East, Kent, and East Sussex. He will now be responsible for coordinating the company’s full southern sales team. www.lochinvar.ltd.uk DavidTaylor Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Energy Assets Group David Taylor has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Energy Assets Group, one of Britain’s leading energy metering, data services, network ownership and utilities construction companies. He joins Energy Assets fromCalisen Group, where he fulfilled dual roles as Calisen Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Lowri Beck Services. David brings over 25 years’ experience in construction and utilities to his new role, together with a strong track record of entrepreneurial success. www.energyassets.co.uk Daikin announces new UK Managing Director from 1 April 2022 Over the last six years, Hiroyasu Ishikawa has already become well known to the DaikinUK teamand customer base, in his role as DeputyManagingDirector since 2016. Hewill continue to be supported byMark Dyer, as DeputyManagingDirector, ensuring consistency of leadership at board level. To provide further continuity, Angela McGinlay will remain as an advisor to Daikin UK during the transition period, before returning to Daikin Europe where she has worked within the HQ and affiliate network in senior management roles for several years. www.daikin.co.uk RPS appoints new Director to grow Midlands service profile Global professional services firm RPS is delighted to appoint Nicola Burley as a new Director withinits Project Management Division. With previous leading roles in both client and consulting environments, Nicola joins RPS with nearly twenty years’ experience in the construction industry. Excited by the challenge to develop the existing project management team, Nicola has moved frommulti-professional consultancy Pick Everard, after over four years as Project Management Director. www.rpsgroup.com Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS) welcomes Trevor Jenks on to Steering Committee Trevor is the National Training Manager for the Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board (SSAIB) and he has been a main player in security and fire training since 1986. As well as being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (MCIPD), Trevor represents SSAIB on the national Trailblazer body and various sub-committees – in addition to working as a systems auditor. Trevor has been involved with the work of ECS for a number of years and was part of the group which updated the standards for Fire, Emergency and Security Systems (FESS) operatives and technicians, including recognition of the apprenticeship routes in England and Northern Ireland and the development of ExperiencedWorker Assessments. www.ecscard.org.uk