Danish Plumbing teacher Benny Wielandt, who won the 2008 WPC Lecturers’/Trainers’ Scholarship, has now submitted the report of his Scholarship visit to Thailand which he made in August 2009.

Background files on Thailand Water supply, Thailand Waste Water management , Fixit centres and Thailand Vocational Education can be had by writing to Benny at bw@tec.dk

The Scholarship, which is awarded to individuals involved in plumbing industry training, is worth up to USD10,000 and enables the recipient to travel to another country to investigate plumbing industry training practices in that country.

In accepting the award, Mr Wielandt said that he was “grateful and honoured” and would do his very best to achieve the purpose of the award.

The results and achievements of Mr Wielandt’s trip to Thailand is now available at the WPC webpage, together with a picture album: www.worldplumbing.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=9%3Anews&id=61%3Ascholarship-winner-presents-his-report&lang=en

Mr Wielandt did many things in Thailand including working on a testing bay in the Plumbing workshop at Dusit Technical College in Northern Bangkok.

“Almost all pipework in Thailand is made from blue PVC joints being made with solvent weld method,” Wielandt says. “The pipes and fittings are all produced locally.”