THE Adcock Group is to open a new purpose-built training centre in Kings Lynn. The well-respected Cambridge-based refrigeration and air conditioning engineering business is to invest £500,000 in the new training facility which will offer training for its own engineers to NVQ levels 2 and 3, 2079, as well as short courses in brazing, pressure testing and electrics.
Adcocks was one of the first contractors to open its own training academy in 2005 when it invested over £200,000 in a custom-built facility at its Cambridge headquarters. This new academy will offer classrooms of three times the size of the existing building, as well as larger workshops, meeting rooms, a canteen and parking.
Md Phillip Prior first set up the training facility in conjunction with experienced college tutor Jeff Yarborough after becoming disillusioned with the standard of training Adcock apprentices were receiving.

'Time has shown that the decision to open our own training centre was the correct one,' commented Adcock md Phillip Prior. 'It has been of tremendous benefit to our business and this new facility will take our training capabilities to a new level,' he added.

The new facility is due to open early in the new year. Jeff Yarborough will still be involved but the company is also looking to take on a full-time training manager to complement the existing arrangement.