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CSA Northern

Sub-Committee

Neil Burdess, Chairman of the CSA Northern

sub-committee / Associate Head of Commissioning
at Banyards reports on the vision of the

newly developed committee which gives a voice
for CSA members in the North of the UK.

have been a member of the CSA for 26 years, starting out as a trainee and working my way through
Ithe CSA grades which has paved my future in the commissioning world and helped me develop
the skills required along the way to where I am now. Over the last few years I have been involved

with the CSA Training committee but noticed that many of the Northern commissioning companies
were not involved with the CSA. The opportunity arose to take the reins of heading up the CSA
Northern committee, giving a voice to our Northern members and collaborating with the team on
tasks which would have a positive impact on the CSA offerings, which will in turn build our future

commissioning engineers and commissioning managers in the same way the CSA has done for me.

To date, the Northern committee has been supporting the CSA Training committee with some
modern updated electrical questions for the current Grade 4 Commissioning Engineers exam and

some new water treatment subjects.

Our main vision is to develop the CSA’s Electrical offering to provide a path of development for
Electrical engineers to gain a CSA commissioning accreditation allowing them to be recognised in
the industry as Commissioning Managers.

This will involve understanding the required academic levels for the proposed grades,
developing job descriptions and writing Grade 4 exams that are tailored for electrically biased

commissioning managers.

The Northern CSA committee is currently built up of seven members from five different companies
ranging from Hands on Commissioning engineers, Water Treatment engineers, Commissioning
Managers and M&E Contractors. We meet quarterly in Manchester area and use collaborative

working tools like Skype and Teams, which enables those further afield to participate.

If you are a Northern CSA member and feel that you can bring some expertise to the table and aid

with forming a path for future commissioning engineers, please get in touch with the CSA office who
will pass your details onto myself.