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WRc Academy Training Courses

Our courses cover the basics to the cutting edge via in-person, virtual and hybrid delivery. Purposeful and focused solutions enhance existing employees' expertise and develop new recruits’ knowledge of the water, environment and sustainability sectors.

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From our vast knowledge-store, we have hand-picked problem-focused, expert-led modules to support and guide your training, so that you can fill your knowledge gaps and rise to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

We can also create or customise a course according to your teams' skill level and add any practical cases or content specific to your team or business. If you’re unable to find the exact training solution you need for you and your team, please get in touch.

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Advancing Recycled Water Management Schemes

This training course provides water industry scientists, engineers and managers with the knowledge of reclaimed water schemes to ensure safe and strategic end-use - how to plan, evaluate and assess successful and compliant schemes; and how to effectively use data and treatment innovations.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Business Change Management Training

This course provides those adopting a change strategy, and early-career Change Management staff, with an extensive understanding of: the context behind business change and transformation; overcoming resistance; implementing strategies based on intended value; process mapping; and creative problem solving.

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Ensuring Recycled Water Quality

Developed by a water recycling and reuse specialist, this course provides water industry starters and operational staff with the knowledge to ensure the safe end-use of reclaimed water: its applications, processes, and regulations, as well as customer and environmental risks and mitigations.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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ESG Strategies for Sustainable Water Management

Providing insights into sustainability trends, regulatory drivers, and actionable strategies, this course equips decision makers with the knowledge required to position their organisations as water sector leaders in ESG performance.

Duration: 0.5 day

Delivery: Online (live)

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Fundamentals of Regulation 31 Approval

This short course provides learners with an introduction to Regulation 31(4), which substances and products must meet before being introduced into the water supply. The training overviews the regulation's background, requirements, DWI application, and consequences of non-compliance.

Duration: 0.5 day

Delivery: In-person / Online (live or self-paced*)

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Grease Management Training for FSE Staff

Developed by a technical specialist in sewer operations, this course enables food service management staff to understand problems caused by Fat, Oil & Grease (FOG) disposed to sewer systems, and its effective management including kitchen practice, appropriate devices and their maintenance.

Duration: 3 hours

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Hydraulic Network Modelling Training

This course provides clean water network modellers, engineers, and technicians with an introduction to network hydraulics. Covering assets such as pipes, valves, pumps and reservoirs, learners will be equipped to use GIS software in the construction and application of hydraulic models.

Duration: 1.5 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Introduction to GIS for Environmental Impact Assessments

Unlock the power of GIS in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) by gaining essential skills in project creation, spatial analysis, and delivering top-quality outputs. This online course is perfect for early-career environmental consultants aiming to excel in a competitive landscape.

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: Online (live)*

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Introduction to ISO55001 for Asset Management

WRc's engaging and interactive training course provides early-career management professionals and support personnel with a basic introduction of how an Asset Management System (ASM) operates as specified in ISO 55001 - from policy and performance measurement to audits and reviews.

Duration: 3 hours

Delivery: In-person or Online (live or self-paced)

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Introduction to Sewerage Networks

During this course, delegates will be equipped with the essential knowledge of sewerage networks, including the objectives and performance requirements of urban drainage assets; risks that are managed in the network; and how materials used impacts safety and performance.

Duration: 1 day

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Introduction to Statistics in R

This training course enables utility & regulatory industry professionals to take their spreadsheet data analysis to the next level, with an accessible and practical introduction to R: the widely-used, free open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Duration: 1 day

Delivery: Online* (self-paced + 1hr mentoring)

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Microbiology for Clean Water Professionals

This course offers water industry professionals comprehensive training on water microbiology, with an understanding of regulatory parameters, waterborne disease, and frontiers such as faecal pollution diagnostics.

Duration: 3 half-days

Delivery: Online (live)

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Microbiology for Wastewater Professionals

This course offers wastewater industry professionals a comprehensive understanding of microbial-based treatment processes in wastewater quality management; microbial ecology and the environmental and public health risks of sewage contamination, and innovations such as recycled water and bio-fuel.

Duration: 3 half-days*

Delivery: Online (live)*

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Pipeline Assessment Certification Programme (PACP)

This programme equips learners to be able to identify, document and categorise defects in pipelines, laterals and manholes across sewer, stormwater, and other systems. The certification is suitable for utilities providers within regions which use the NASSCO Specification for condition assessment.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Risk-Based Planning of Water Assets (Stage 1)

Aimed at engineering graduates and early career starters, this course explores best practices, asset deterioration, and the application of risk-based methods in the maintenance planning and execution of water network infrastructure such as pipes, valves, pumps and meters.

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Risk-based Planning of Water Assets (Stage 2)

This training uses water industry frameworks and case studies to illustrate how to take a risk-based approach to asset management by extracting best value from planned maintenance, and making wise investment decisions by balancing probability and consequences of failure with costs of remediation.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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STOAT WwTW Modelling Software Training

Led by STOAT software developer Jeremy Dudley, this exercise-based training enables wastewater treatment process professionals to develop the required skills and knowledge to effectively use STOAT modelling freeware for sewage plant design, assessment and optimisation.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Technical Application of Regulation 31(4)

Developed by WRc's regulatory, toxicology and engineering specialists, this training provides those designing, purchasing and installing products for use in potable water supply systems with a technical understanding to inform the successful application, approval and compliance with Regulation 31(4).

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: In-person / Online (live)

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Understanding Chemical Safety in Drinking Water

This course offers water industry professionals with the sufficient background knowledge of toxicology in order to understand how chemical risk assessments are used to make decisions and manage risks following unintended chemical occurrences in drinking water.

Duration: 3 half-days

Delivery: Online (live)

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Understanding Water Quality Impacts of Storm Overflows

Delivered by an urban drainage specialist, this course provides water and environmental professionals with the in-depth knowledge and skills for assessing the impacts of storm overflows - covering their infrastructure, policy, monitoring, investment programmes and innovations for improvement.

Duration: 2 days (* + optional add-ons)

Delivery: Online (live)*

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Understanding Water Quality Statistics (Excel)

Delivered by a seasoned statistics specialist and lecturer, and drawing on expertise from WRc water quality scientists and modellers, this course uses hands-on exercises to introduce key concepts and statistical methods used to visualise, interpret, analyse, and evaluate water quality data.

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: Online (live)

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Water Loss & Leak Detection Analyst Course

This course enables leak detection analysts to increase their understanding of best-practice principles and implement real-world solutions for: effective design and targeting of DMAs and TMAs; leakage control and strategy; and analysis of spatial data using GIS technology.

Duration: 4 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Water Network Operations Training (Stage 1)

This course provides engineering graduates and early-career technicians & operators with a detailed insight into managing flows and pressures in the water supply network, including different types of valves, their functions and how network valving can affect water quality.

Duration: 2 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Water Network Operations Training (Stage 2)

This course provides clean water network practitioners with in-depth knowledge and skills to ensure the highest quality of service supplied to the customer. Topics include: mains flushing, field tests, managing incidents, and using GIS and hydraulic models to solve problems.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Water Safety Planning Course

This training course equips water supply operators and consultants with the required knowledge level to develop a Water Safety Plan (WSP), in line with WHO guidance and BS EN 15975-2, from hazard identification through to strengthening SOPs, enabling them to provide the safe potable drinking water.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: In-person or Online (live)

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Water Treatment Processes Training

This training programme enables water treatment process professionals to develop the required skills and knowledge to effectively address and resolve various challenges and ensure processed water is safe to humans and the environment, including Chlorination, RO Desalination and UV Disinfection.

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: Online (live)

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