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Build UK Moves Forward on Achieving Zero Retentions
Build UK has reached a major milestone on the roadmap to zero retentions by publishing new minimum standards designed to reduce the existing challenges associated with the use of cash retentions. The Minimum Standards on Retentions, which provides detailed drafting...
read moreExcellent Acquisition Opportunity…
Solway Insulation is a medium-sized business in South West Scotland with many well-established clients and contracts. The company provides insulation, scaffolding and painting services to industrial and residential clients. Established as a Limited Company in 2017,...
read moreFree Online Asbestos Awareness for TICA Members
Following consultation over the past year with our IETTL Trustees, the Trust has agreed to fund the online training development, and free of charge licences for all TICA members, on an annual basis. This new member benefit means that operatives working for a TICA...
read moreTICA Member S/NVQ Funding Provision
TICA has administered the TICA Skill Card for Thermal Insulation Operatives since May 2017, taking over responsibility for the industry skill card from CSCS. At the beginning of 2015 the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) announced (via its Industrial Strategy:...
read morePauline Palmer – An Inspirational Ambassador
An advocate for TICA apprenticeships and the first female to join the governing council, Pauline Palmer has been an instrumental ambassador working to improve policy, encourage best practice, and help address the looming skills gap faced by the industry. The Health...
read moreApprenticeship Standards, the story so far….
In February 2017 the two thermal insulation apprenticeship standards were finally approved for delivery by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The TICA Trailblazer group, led by Jim Soady of CGB Humbertherm, had spent the previous 18 months...
read moreConstruction Council Calls to End Reliance on Self-Employed Workers
In its Future Skills Report, the Council recommended that instead of relying on a self-employed workforce, clients should agree to a code of employment ensuring those working on a project are directly employed. The construction industry as a whole is currently on the...
read moreReview of the British Standard for Specifying Thermal Insulation Thicknesses
The British Standard that guides and determines the thickness of insulation we all supply and/or install on industrial and building services equipment has reached the point where it is to be considered for review. The British Standards Institute (BSI) puts all British...
read moreR&H Insulations’ Apprentice Reaches New Heights
TICA Member R&H Insulations has celebrated another landmark scheme as Thermal Insulation Operative Ross Wainwright became the 100th apprentice to work on Manchester Airport’s £1bn transformation program. Most recently, R&H Insulations became a preferred...
read moreTICA Completes Major Facilities Upgrade
A UNIQUE industry-backed organisation has completed the latest expansion phase to its national training centre following a £500,000 re-development. Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA), formed to represent organisations within the industrial and...
read moreVAT: Domestic Reverse Charge in the Construction Industry
Construction Services Domestic Reverse Charge (“CSDRC”) The CSDRC will apply to VAT registered businesses which supply certain services to other VAT registered businesses, but only where the recipient business then makes an onward supply of the same construction...
read moreWe are Recruiting!
Come and get involved in training the next generation of thermal insulators - TICA has an immediate vacancy for a full time thermal insulation Instructor/Assessor at the TICA National Training Centre in Darlington. The job is based full time in Darlington, and you...
read moreTICA Apprentice of the Year Finalists are Revealed
The 2019 TICA Apprentice Skills Test takes place at the National Training Centre in Darlington on 2 & 3 July. The 8 finalists are: Alex Cook of RDA Insulation Ltd Aaron Doble of RDA Insulation Ltd Harry Curtis of Essex Thermal Services Ltd Will Britt of Wood Group...
read moreTICA Apprentice Recruitment
TICA is commencing recruitment for the next Apprentice intake year, 2019/20. TICA provides members with a full apprentice recruitment service, writing and placing apprenticeship vacancy advertisements, providing the initial sift of applicants ensuring candidates meet...
read moreWithdrawal of Postal Applications
In line with the announcement below TICA will no longer process postal Skill Card applications after 30 June 2019. CSCS has announced plans to withdraw postal applications. CSCS currently provide a postal application service that is used by construction workers to...
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