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New Sustainability Centre in Tamworth NSW
Written by: New England Institute of TAFE Tamworth, 08 Jul 2010
The New England Institute of TAFE Tamworth campus in central NSW has received funding to build a Sustainability Centre, of which building is nearing completion. http://www.govarch.commerce.nsw.gov.au/projects.asp?PT=1&SI=1&PD=1&CP=177
The purpose of the centre is to provide a training ground for students and existing employees in many different Trades and Industry to learn about new and emerging sustainable products, including how to install, components, repair and technical information.
Students in the fields of Electrical and Electro technology, Refrigeration, Automotive, Construction, Plumbing, Horticulture, Fitting and Machining, Manufacturing, Metal Fabrication and Welding as well as members of the general public will have full use the centre, along with schools and other organisations, and our aim for the centre to be educating approximately 15,000 annually in the New England and North West region.
We are approaching your organisation as either a potential contributor to the Sustainability Centre. Your products and or contacts have been identified as environmentally considerate but require tradespeople to know and understand them for install or service support.
Often, tradespeople have not had the opportunity to be exposed to newer, more environmentally considerate products and therefore cannot advise customers on their merits- This is where the Sustainability Centre aims to overcome this gap, and for that reason we are enquiring as to whether or not your organisation may be able to donate some of your products to the centre, in order for our trades men and women to learn about and install them.
The benefits of your support of the centre will include exposure through the substantial and extensive media coverage for the launch of the centre, with ongoing display of your company details at the centre for the lifetime of the products donated (as well as on the supplied equipment) plus acknowledgement would be made to your company at the official centre launch, and an invitation to the gala launch event.
To ensure currency, we will then aim to review the donated products in the centre annually, to ensure they are
- still current,
- still available for purchase by a consumer
- still meet the Sustainability measure,
- and to allow for upgrade and room for new models if applicable.
Your organisation would be given priority at each review, and contacted before other potential providers of relevant product if you have already been displaying at the centre e.g.- have a more current model you wish to make available for tradespeople to learn about.
We are approaching several different companies and Industry Skills Councils for either
- dissipation of this request to members of your council or
- donation of products (ranging from refrigeration, air conditioning, electrical household appliances, horticulture, building products, water and water heating, lighting etc)
to allow NSW tradespeople and apprentices a chance to learn, understand, embrace and endorse products available in the Trade and Industry areas to promote Sustainability, and would very much like to showcase your products (or your member’s products).
If there is some way that our Sustainability Centre could not only learn from your products (or your member’s products) but showcase them to a large range of tradespeople, students and communities, would you be able to get in contact when you are able on the details below.
Thank you in advance for your time in considering our request
Sincerely
Lauren Zell
Green skills strategy Project Officer
Trades & Primary Industries Faculty
TAFE NSW - New England Institute
Phone: (02) 6768 2069
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