| Training
WRc
provides specialist training, workshops, seminars and secondments to support
performance improvement in the water, waste and environment industry.
We get involved in both technical and management programmes,
often to implement new legislation and demonstrate new technologies and
best practice. WRc can also design client-specific programmes. These include
seminars, workshops, classroom-based programmes, secondments and study
tours.
Key Services
WRc works with water and sanitation utilities, waste management organisations, governments
and regulators, plus those in the supply chain. Examples of our multi-disciplinary
work include:
- Specialist training programmes and seminars
to implement new legislation and standards and to demonstrate new techniques
and technologies. For example, WRc has trained contractors and developers
in new regulations for competition in water supply, and under an international
training programme, has trained water utility managers throughout the
world in business planning.
- Facilitated workshops to develop innovative
strategies, tools and research road maps. This includes workshops to
implement research through the Portfolio collaborative programme and
developing strategic roadmaps for future research needs.
- Software implementation programmes,
for example, strategic training in the use of rapid wastewater impact
assessments using SIMPOL for environmental regulators.
- Developing best practice guidance and manuals
with regulators and users, and implementing these with specialist training,
for example, training for loss adjusters, insurance professionals in
drainage and drain repair legislation – this cascaded into training
for drain repair companies to ensure best practice.
- Secondments or staff exchanges
to facilitate technology or knowledge transfer and to implement new
legislation and standards. For example, WRc
seconded staff to the Environment Agency to help implement the Water
Framework Directive and to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to examine and support schemes in the resource efficiency area.
Example Clients
- United Utilities
- Environment Agency
- Thames Water
- Insurance Industry Drainage Forum
- Scottish Water
- UK Department for International Development (DfID)
- Dyno-rod
- Severn Trent Water
- Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI)
- World Bank
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- Yorkshire Water
- Drain Doctor
- OFWAT
- Water UK
- Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries
(SBWWI)
- Laing Utilities
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(Defra)
- Home Builders Federation (HBF)
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Example Projects
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Improving African water utilities’ service
delivery through establishing and applying agreed performance indicators
UK Department for International Development (DfID) |
View Project Summary
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Water Industry Induction Course
Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (Defra) |
View Project Summary |
Essentials for Managing Drain Repair - training
course
Insurance Industry Drainage Forum |
View Project Summary |
'Self-Lay of Water mains' - policy and guidance publication
plus implementation workshop
Water UK and Scottish Water |
View Project Summary |
WRc Statement regarding MSCC4 training courses
The following is a summary of WRc's position in respect of the training of operators, engineers and managers in water utilities outside the UK and North America.
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