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A collaboration between Proctor Group and one of the north-east’s leading independent training providers is helping to share knowledge about up-to-date roofing products and practices.
Optimum Skills, based in Gateshead, operates three construction academies training young people in slating, tiling and flat roofing (as well as bricklaying, joinery and groundworks). They help apprentices through pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programmes. Giving apprentice roofers the chance to get hands on with the latest products is essential to developing their knowledge, and giving them the chance to share what they learn with their colleagues on site.
Proctor Group is working with Optimum Skills, donating rolls of its BBA-certified air permeable underlay, Proctor Air, and delivering a mix of theory and practical sessions.
“I’m very against ‘death by PowerPoint’!” said James Brown, Roofing Tutor at Optimum Skills. “We’re tradespeople, we want to be hands on. When Proctor Group demonstrate the bubbler that shows how air passes through the Proctor Air underlay, you see faces light up.” proctorgroup.com