The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, Strategy Director of the Global Solar Council and Chair of the West Midlands Solar Taskforce. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide 'CPD on the go'. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Mark talks to Rakesh Maharaj - Global Solar Council
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The Global Solar Council is the worldwide trade body for the solar sector. It exists to promote solar and battery storage around the world and it has members in every continent that include regional trade bodies, individual corporates and the full range of stakeholders from banks to developers. All are united to drive the adoption of solar at scale and at pace. This includes an aspiration to deliver 8TW of generating capacity and over 300M domestic homes with solar PV by 2030. This is only possible as the industry matures to take its place as the central generating mechanism for energy around the world. The Global Solar Council’s role includes unlocking the constraints on this growth to make the industry truly sustainable.
This remit includes the provision of skill standards for the industry and Rakesh Maharaj, founder of ARMSA Academy and a strategy director of the Global Solar Council, chairs the Skills Taskforce for the GSC. He talks to Mark about the aspirations of the Taskforce and the need for standardisation of skills to ensure that installations are designed, installed and maintained by skilled professionals, regardless of where in the world solar is deployed. This will provide confidence in the product and energy security within the power network. Both crucial for investors, operators and ultimate beneficiaries of our energy networks around the world.
Listen to this podcast to hear about the Skills Taskforce work and the application to countries around the world. Hear why the balance between capacity and capability is so important, as is the need to train our corporate leaders in the Board rooms around the world. Listen to this podcast to hear how to overcome regional variations in training and to recognise a competent workforce as an enabler in a vibrant and exciting industry. Rakesh believes that those economies that grasp this opportunity now will hold this position for the next twenty years as they control the market for safe, reliable and efficient installations in a global market.
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