Utilities Engineering
Utilities Engineering provides training and assessment support to the gas, electric, water, oil, refrigerant, steam and renewable industries.
We are accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to operate as a certification body delivering the Nationally Accredited Certification Scheme for Individual Gas Fitting Operatives (ACS) and also for OFTEC oil.
All the information you need to become an approved centre and to deliver our schemes is given below:
back to topBecoming an approved centre
If you wish to provide training and assessments for the Utilities Engineering schemes you need to become an approved centre. Please contact your customer co-ordinator to find out more about the approval process on 0344 994 4020.
We have technical advisors who can support and guide you through the steps you need to take to gain approval.
You may find it useful to view the information below before applying for approval.
back to topOperational documents
The following documents define the requirements and the policies and procedures for approved centres to follow. They form part of the Utilities Engineering Centre Operational Manual (UECOM), the manual that all approved centres have full access to.
- Facility requirements
- Health and Safety
- Centre personnel
- Equal opportunities
- Complaints
- Documentation and publications
- Security
- Marketing
- Approval of centre facilities and centre schedule
- Internal quality audit
- Standards of service and contact
- Schedule of fees and funding information
- Operative application
- Assessment preparation
- Assessments
- Internal verification
- Notification
- Statistical records
- UECOM Document Issue Status List (Issued: Jan 2013)
The following sections are restricted to Approved Centre use only.
To attain a password please contact your customer co-ordinator.
- Forms
- Example forms
- ACS Gas
- Centre Specification and Procedures
- Centre Specification and Procedures - Appendix A
- Centre Specification and Procedures - Appendix B
- Centre Specification and Procedures - Appendix C
- Resource Materials
- Resource material
- Document Issue status list (Commercial)
- Document Issue status list (Domestic)
- Document Issue status list (LPG)
- Gas Training IGC
- Centre Specification and Procedures
- Documents
- Oil
- Centre Specification and Procedures
- OFTEC Assessment Documentation Master List
- Water
- Building Regs Part G3 UHWSS Centre Specification and Procedures
- Building Regs Part G3 UHWSS Document Issue status list
- Electric
- Training Centre Specification and Procedures
- Assessment Centre Specification and Procedures
- Document Issue status list
- Refrigeration
- Centre Specification and Procedures
- Document Issue status list
- Renewables and Energy Efficiency
- (EEDH) Centre Specification and Procedures
- (Solar) Centre Specification and Procedures
- (Solar) Scheme Info
- Part P Electrical Safety
- Defined and Full Scope Centre Specification and Procedures
- Document Issue status list
Scheme information
A summary of each of the schemes on offer is available in Qualifications and courses.
Further details of each scheme are available for you to download:
- Building Regulations Part P
- Electric
- Energy Efficiency for Domestic Heating
- Gas training and ACS gas
- Oil
- Refrigeration
- Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems
- Water Regulations 1999
