Free taster course offers the chance to experience ground breaking virtual reality simulation training
A free taster course gives an in-depth flavour of the innovative VR simulation training to be offered at only the second centre of its kind in the world has been devised for construction and education professionals.
The course, run by the Advanced Construction Technologies centre, ACT-UK, is aimed at showing how training will improve the skills of site managers and at encouraging firms to sponsor the centre which opens at Coventry University in autumn 2008.
The taster course on 2nd and 3rd July is to be run at ACT-UK’s sister centre in the Netherlands, the inspiration for the British model.
Two initial taster courses, which use virtual reality technology and actors to recreate real life situations, have met with great success – with participants saying the training will propel the construction industry into the 21st century.
ACT-UK, praised by construction industry gurus Sir John Egan and Sir Michael Latham, is being majority funded by regional development agency Advantage West Midlands to the tune of £6.3 million. Additional funding of £0.7 million comes from the Learning and Skills Council Coventry and Warwickshire. A further £1.1 million is being sought from the industry to lever in the government funding.
Anyone interested in attending the taster course should contact ACT-UK’s business development manager Norman Stothers on 07974 984927. | 
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