Scottish Traditional Building Skills Audit Scoping ... - Historic Scotland

ROOFING
The main accredited qualifications for roofing are Roofing Occupations SVQ to
Level 3, Advanced Craft Roof Slating, Tiling and Cement Work, and the Roofing
TAPs. There are a number of other qualifications which were also found to cover
skills relevant to roofing, including HND Architectural Conservation, Carpentry &
Joinery SVQ Level 3 and Advanced Craft, Bricklaying SVQ Level 3 and MES
Domestic Plumbing Level 3.
Roofing TAPS covers 68% of the wish-list skills, while Advanced Craft covers 76%.
However, skills such as understanding the use of slate in terms of its geology is not
covered even at Advanced Craft level. Nor are pantiles or rainwater goods amongst
a number of other skills.
Areas that appear to be under-represented in current training provision are
predominantly traditional roof coverings including stone-slate roofs, traditional
terracotta pan-tiles, and rosemary tiles, but also in a number of other important areas.
Whilst it is recognised that many of the skills in relation to current roofing skills
training are transferable, there is an evident lack of training specific to these areas.
As previously outlined above, roofing occupation qualifications only cover 47% of
the wish-list skills for metal roofing.
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