Quality System Auditor

IQA Group has recently recruited a Quality System Auditor, who will assist with our project to gain accreditation to the internationally recognised quality standard, ISO9001:2008. The Company will be driving forward with this ambitious goal throughout 2011, and expects to gain accreditation in March 2012.

"The Towers" Changeover

Carl Rugen, Electrical Operations Manager (North West)

IQA’s Liverpool Office completed its first changeover of 41 flats at “ The Towers” multi storey block in Birkenhead. The successful changeover was completed in close consultation with ScottishPower and Wirral Housing Partnership who were both in attendance on the day. ScottishPower Engineer Billy Jones said “excellent bunch of guys who worked hard and professionally to make the changeover go so smoothly. Well done to all involved”.

Training Report

David McKinlay

Training and Compliance Manager

A total of 33 personnel, including 2 new members of staff, passed through the instruction rooms in Paisley and Liverpool in January 2011.

The topics covered were refresher, final interview and authorisation preparation as well as reporting procedures and metering instruction.

On 14^th January a total of 6 operatives successfully completed their OP3 refresher course while one of our jointing resources successfully passed his LV live working refresher training on 25^th January. 6 operatives all attended and successfully completed the M0008 five day course between 24^th-28^th January with their final OP3 interviews being passed. A further 2 operatives successfully completed their WI1 initial safety induction course on 31 January and will now work towards their W1 final interview with SP Compliance.

New Contract Award

An 18 month contract has been awarded to IQA by Scottish Power for the Provision of Internal Mains and Services.

The contract, covering both SP Scotland and SP Manweb, commences on 6^th January 2011 and continues until 30^th June 2012, at which point a potential 30 month contract extension may be agreed.

This very positive news for IQA is a great start to 2011 and allows the Company to grow and support our future strategic plans.

Website Updates

As part of the continued development of our website updates have been made to give a more accurate overview of our current business make up.

The home page now only shows our three main business units: Utilities, Property and Building Services. Having these three distinct business units helps give a more focussed approach to work for our clients and will also make information on our website easier to find.

The IQA Way has also been launched online and a slide show with the five points on this has been added to the home page in the short term. This will soon be replaced with new photography of current sites which will coincide with the specific case studies being updated. The slide show for the IQA Way will however be a permanent addition to this section in the ‘about’ area of the site.