A TRAINING centre offering air-conditioning and refrigeration courses is up and running at HRP Group's Slough premises.
The HRP Group company 3D Air Sales, is the UK distributor of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries air conditioning systems and is running a suite of MHI support courses.

Around fifty trainees have already attended classes at the centre, since it opened on June 27.

The technical centre's courses can teach 800 students a month. Practical training rooms have operational refrigeration and air-conditioning systems and classroom sizes for practical classes are kept small with a maximum of 12 students.

A spokesman for the HRP group said 'During the coming months, delivery and assessment strategies will be developed to facilitate the running of courses specifically requested by businesses within the HVAC sector.

'The combination of expertise from HRP group and the Grimsby Institute [of Further and Higher Education]will meet the challenges and demands of F-Gas and ODP regulations currently being introduced by the government'.

The HRP group's 15 service centres stock products to support acr contractors nationwide and deliver onsite, to customer warehouses and HRP trade counters.

Richard Ward, appointed managing director of 3D Air Sales in June, plans to expand sales of MHI products in split and VRF systems during the next two or three years. He recently recruited more staff to expand the firm's installer and specifier sales teams across the UK.