Introduction
Equipe Training Limited was established in 2008 by three of the UK's leading senior managers in the field of geotechnics and drilling - Julian Lovell, Peter Reading and Keith Spires.
All three are passionate about the industry, they have dedicated their working lives to, and believed that it would greatly benefit from the availability of an independent, professional and comprehensive provider for vocational training and continual assessment
Equipe Training Limited provides such a service and delivers it to all stakeholders in the industry from educational establishments i.e. schools, colleges and universities, through consultants and clients to contractors.
Our Services
Equipe provides a professional, comprehensive and independent training and assessment service covering geotechnics, laboratory testing and drilling which is delivered either from its base, The Drilling Academy, or from selected facilities throughout the UK and Ireland.
Equipe tailors its services to its clients and aims to provide courses and on site services which meet their requirements.
Services include:
Soil and Rock Description Course
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
BDA Apprenticeships in Land Drilling
Equipe has partnered with some of the UK's leading consultants, suppliers and manufacturers such as Drillwell Engineering, ITM, MGS Demco and Soil Instruments. This allows us to ensure that the plant and equipment being demonstrated and trained on is state of the art and up to date. It also provides a unique window into new innovations and technologies which will enter into the market place.
Professional Memberships
Equipe also believes that it is important to be an integral part of the drilling and geotechnical community and therefore it's Directors are Fellows of the Geological Society of London (GS) and members of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA). Equipe is also a corporate member of The British Drilling Association (BDA) and Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS).
