Former Chelsea and England footballer Graeme Le Saux is this year’s guest speaker at the annual Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) Education Awards.
The annual event marks the achievements of the door hardware industry’s rising stars at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in central London on Thursday, November 8. Since his retirement as a football player in 2005, Graeme has worked as a pundit for the BBC and does project work with the FA, UEFA, FIFA and the Premier League.
The awards include Gold, Silver and Bronze for the top students in the Diploma and the Pinnacle Award, sponsored by physical security and door locking product company ASSA ABLOY, for the student with the best aggregate results over the three years of the Diploma.
The GAI Diploma is designed to give students product knowledge and the ability to write hardware specifications and quotations. The qualification is the Guild adds suited to those in customer service, contract management, scheduling and estimating, and sales.
Guild president, David Stacey, said: “The Education Awards is a great opportunity to recognise students’ hard work over the past three years. It is also a chance for companies to celebrate the individuals within their teams who are going above and beyond to offer architects and contractors high-quality technical knowledge.”
The only recognised architectural ironmongery qualification, the Guild’s education programme has been running for more than 50 years, training architectural ironmongers to British and European standards. This year’s awards are sponsored by dormakaba.
To book your tickets to the 2018 GAI Education Awards, visit the GAI website.
Pictured from last year’s event, left to right, are Eryl Jones, MD of ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, Pinnacle award winner Lee Gardner, and director of the GAI Angie Corkhill.
