With the opening of a new £1.4 m training facility at its Charlton House head office site in Cheltenham, steam system specialist, Spirax Sarco, believes it is now in a better position than at any time in its history to offer specialist steam system training that will enable those operating and maintaining such equipment in environments such as hospital plant rooms to optimise its performance and efficiency, cut their energy bills and carbon footprint, and ensure the safety of their staff.
As HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie reports, around 10-15% of those trained to date in the new facility, and at the previous training centre, are from the healthcare engineering and estates management sector.
Spirax Sarco’s impressive new UK Steam Technology Centre, at which the first course to be run started on 1 July last year, has been created through a comprehensive refurbishment an re-fit of an existing training and education centre completed in 1987 at the Charlton Kings site, which was itself opened in June of that year by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The new training facility is the fifth to be established at the Charlton House site since the company first moved there in 1945. The Charlton House site is also the headquarters of the Spirax Sarco Engineering Group plc, and of the UK sales operation, with the main office accommodation housed both in an elegant Regency-style house built in the mid-1700s, and in a series of extension buildings, the first of which was constructed in 1958. Charlton House was itself recently the subject of a comprehensive restoration and refurbishment to bring the building up to more modern standards. While retaining the original features of the Grade II listed mansion, this work saw the building modernised and updated, with an improved working environment, installation of modern telecommunications, data transfer and videoconferencing facilities, and the creation of open-plan work areas to support collaborative working across teams and departments.
A ‘flagship’ facility
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