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Trade and Professional Training

Objective

To ensure key trades and professions have the skills to deliver efficiency outcomes, to establish consumer confidence and reduce the risks for investors in energy efficiency projects by ensuring work is undertaken by competent and independently accredited professionals, and to assist trades and professions to recognise and promote the new market opportunities associated with energy efficiency.

Key Elements

Incorporation of energy efficiency into formal qualification training curriculum and ongoing professional development courses.

The development of an accreditation protocol that ensures consistent standards.

Specific accreditation schemes for identified trades and professions.

Recognition and requirement by professional organisations and government agencies for accreditation and related training.