 overdrive and you ain't seen nothing yet. John Breznan with you on Around the North West. Now, if you're a construction worker in the show on, or maybe if you're a senior cycle student and interested in getting into construction, well, there's an opportunity this month through the NZEB Mobile Training Unit, NZEB standing for Near Zero Energy Building. And this Mobile Training Unit has arrived in Bunkrana. And it's the first time that it has come to Donegal and this is after negotiations between the National Construction Training Centre, Mount Lucas, and in the show and development partnership. And from the partnership, I'm joined now by the Employer Engagement Officer, Anna McColgan. Anna, good afternoon to you. How are you getting on? Not too bad, John. Good. Now, this is a great opportunity. First time in Donegal. Whereabouts is it located, first of all? It's at the Scarvey Bunkrana G.A. Grounds, and they've been very, very good in helping us site it there for the three and a half weeks that it's here in the show. Okay. Now, what does it mean? What does it offer? Okay, so it's simulated training. Near Zero Energy Building is about making sure that you have high energy performance in the building. And it's one of the newer changes to building procedures. And as part of our and business series, we went out to the construction sector and said, what do you need? What help do you need? And they came back and they said, look, there's so many things out there with grants and everything else. We need to know a little bit more. So Mount Lucas, which is Leigh Shafley Education and Training Board, they look after the construction Federation training for the contract. And we've had a great relationship in the last 18 months with them. And whenever they brought their rig on board towards the second half of last year, I said, when can we get it to the show? And, you know, the team at IDP said, you know, this would be brilliant because, you know, there's just so much changes. There's so many changes, you know, vacant house, reflux, you've got all of the new builds and everything else. So, you know, can we help the vector? And they said, yes, we can look at that. And Bevin and the team down there put together a schedule and they said, right, we're coming in January. And here they are now. So they're here. And so they're, yes, they're doing training for the construction sector. So it's architects, engineers, quantity of surveyors, trades people and manufacturers and contractors. So we've 61 from the trades through training. And by the 25th of this month, we will have 150 senior cycle students from the five local secondary skills through simulated training on that. So it's, it's great to have it. And how does it work? Is it one-to-one or small groups? Small groups. The rig can take 12 people at a time. So we're using the rig and we're also using the offices at IDP as well to facilitate the training. And are there short training programs being delivered in the space of the time that the unit is here? So we have a number of programs. So the NSF fundamentals is the introductory level into what is NSF, what it can be applied to. Then next week, we have the retrofit program, which is a two-day program. We do have a couple of places left on that program. And that literally locks at each of the areas. So you're looking at insulation, you're looking at heat recovery, you're looking at air tightness, you're looking at ventilation. And they'll be able to simulate that. And they also have VR headsets there that absolutely helps everybody to understand how this actually applies into a house or a property that they're working on. We have the site supervisor, which is the one that we really wanted to have here in Anishone. And that's run in two days online and then two days next week in the rig. And we have two architects, a very experienced joiner, tradesman, a guy from a local window company's manager there. And we have also somebody from construction. So it's a great mix and it's great to get them all together as well. And the unique aspect is the virtual headset and the fact that you know there's simulated learning involved. It's not just a standard classroom setting. No, it really allows them to get to, I suppose, the hands-on feel of doing the job and how you will apply to a property that will make the difference in getting to as close to passive as possible. We do even have an architect here, as best in Klamani, who has gone all the way through to the full passive house training between Mount Lucas and Mossart. So it has been great, you know, but there's still a lot of work to be done. For those that might be listening, not at the moment actively involved in the construction industry or a senior cycle student, is there anything for them? Well, the programs are run continuously in Mount Lucas. And so if you go on to mountlucas.ie, you will see their full schedule. So there's some programs have to be run down there because external installations, so they need to be able to do that practically. The air tightness and things like that. You can't actually do that off-site. So they are ongoing all year, and we will continue even after this to work closely with Mount Lucas and as well as Donnie Golly, to be able to bring the rig, if not, bring the rig back up to continue with the training that we can do without the rig. Okay. And what this, the rig goes round to various parts around the country, I presume. Yeah. Well, I've got to come to Lerner County in the common months. Because there's a real demand for workers in the construction sector. You know, it's unbelievable, you know, because we have had such a, I suppose, a skills drain more than a brain drain as well. We have to be able to make sure that we can reignite people to go into the sector because there are so many opportunities there. You know what I mean? And the demand is there. So therefore, we want to make sure that we have the highest skilled people we possibly can, and we keep them in the Northwest to be able to do all the work that needs to be done. Yeah. Well, it's great towards that end. And I'm sure there's been a lot of over and back to make sure that it got here. And the unit is in place now out at Bunkrana GA pitch, and it will be until the end of the month. And if people want to find out, anybody doesn't want to find out, find out more information or maybe, you know, book. Yep. They can contact me at initial partnership, or so it's Anna at initial.ie, or they can directly call through to our reception and they'll put them through to myself, or any of the team can help with that. Okay, brilliant. Thanks, Anna. All right. Thank you so much. All right, bye. 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