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| Birmingham Energy Savers gets official launch Early beneficiaries of the landmark Birmingham Energy Savers (BES) scheme testified how the innovative scheme is already working to make the Second City a better place to live at its official launch on Friday 1st February 2013 in The Banqueting Suite at The Council House, Birmingham. Locals plucked from long-term unemployment, residents that are already enjoying warmer homes and lower energy bills has joined representatives of Birmingham City Council, who originated the scheme, and its delivery partner Carillion Energy Services (CES) to chart BES' progress. BES aims to stimulate the saving of money, energy and carbon across schools, businesses and up to 60,000 City households and help 26,000 homes out of fuel poverty. It is the first example of a local authority delivering the Government's Green Deal, through which the cost of carrying energy efficient measures will be recovered in installments via the occupants'/ owners' energy suppliers. Local residents - tenants and owner/ occupiers - as well as businesses are being urged to sign up for an assessment to discover whether their home or office is eligible for a range of measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce their bills. Potential employees have been engaged through a dedicated recruitment programme and a series of businesses and community organizations have been engaged to help publicise BES amongst those most likely to benefit from its offerings. Through BES, 10 Green Deal Assessors have been appointed, half of which were unemployed or at risk of redundancy. A further 10 customer service advisors and 5 planning schedulers have been added to the growing team at BES as word continues to spread of its potential benefits. These were selected from a pool of forty applicants that were each given three days of pre-employment training. Those appointed have been accredited a further training, bringing BES' ongoing training provision to the equivalent of 270 days. In total, 36 people have been recruited directly to BES so far, 20 were unemployed and nine were in jobs at risk. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |