HISTORY
In 1960 Spoornet opened the Spoornet air conditioning and
refrigeration training centre. Spoornet’s restructuring
resulted in the privatisation of the training facility in
August 1998,
thus opening the doors of the Air Conditioning and
Refrigeration Academy. The ACADEMY bought out
equipment and expertise from the Eskom training centre,
Carrier and the ABI training centre. The Academy is a
registed company.
The Staff have trained students
from the entire industry and have achieved international
status training people from several of the southern African
countries as well as Accreditation from the U.K. based City
and Guilds as well as the CITB. We furthermore conduct all
Rau's post graduate practical training.
The ACADEMY became an accredited external trade testing
centre in 2003.
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VISION
The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Academy is
a specialised training provider.
The Academy will provide relevant knowledge and
skills based training focused on the students needs and
industries requirements. The Academy will furthermore
provide a complete service, before, during and after the
training. We will not compromise on quality. The Academy
will endeavour empower the people, industry and the country
as a whole by developing skills and producing competent
people.
To this end the ACADEMY has taken on 14 previously
unemployed persons and at own cost placed the persons on
learnerships.
The ACADEMY will furthermore place such qualified persons in
positions of employment on qualification.
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ACCREDITATION
The Academy carries FULL ACCREDITATION (merSETA.)
for the
training of apprentices, learnerships and skills programs in
air conditioning and refrigeration levels 2 through 5, as
well as assessment centre status for trade testing, unit
standard assessments levels 2 through 5 and licensing for
safe handling of refrigerants for CITB (UK) and ACRICSA (SA)
Accreditation numbers TA/1541/00 All courses are therefore
recognised and are nationally / internationally certificated
/ licensed or carry a Diploma.
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SITUATION
The training is housed in a factory setting
typical to the technical nature of the fields of Air
Conditioning and Refrigeration.
The Academy is centrally located in Edenvale (38
Plantation Rd) with the Airport and a large variety
of accommodation close at hand.
The premises comprise of 520 square metres of office
and air conditioned lecture room space as well as
870 square metres of workshop area. The large
workshop is fully equipped for crucial hands on
training, an absolute necessity when training in the
highly technical fields of air conditioning and
refrigeration
The Academy has the capacity to accommodate up to
120 students in the theoretical classes and 60
students in the workshops. The student numbers being
lower in the workshop area to allow for individual
attention and safer learning conditions.
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The location is close to the Johannesburg
International Airport and is in walking distance
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ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is available from several
guesthouses and hotels. In some cases due to the
high volume the Academy has negotiated
favourable rates.
A detailed list of Accommodation is available on
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STAFF
The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Academy
is staffed by Grant Laidlaw (C.E.O), Johan van
Tonder (Training Manager, Courseware
development, Assessor) Stewart Laidlaw (Trainer,
Assessor) Mr Koos Verster (Moderator, Trainer,
Assessor) Mr Andre Sauerman acts as electrical
trainer, assessor, Dr Gerda Vijoen heads up the
life skills training, assessments with Mr Koos
Pretorius conducting numeracy training and
assessments. All trainers are fully qualified as
well as being active members of the industry.
Office support is conducted by Anria Henning and
accounts by Candice Burger. Serving on the
committee for trade testing as well as on the
S.G.B and membership to SACOB being examples of
some their involvement. The Academy aims to
increase the staff compliment by two lecturers
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