HEAT was present at the latest awards ceremony held at the Ramada Hotel in Belfast on Thursday 10 April 2008 for the Northern Ireland Business Awards sponsored by BMI. HEAT were nominated for two categories, Excellence in Training and overall business of the year. We were successful in gaining the award for Excellence in Training sponsored by Investors in People, proving again that we are committed to offering employees opportunities to gain qualifications and develop new skills.

This award proves again why HEAT are the No 1 company in the UK to work for as voted by our employees in this year’s Sunday Times Best Companies survey.

HEAT are the only Northern Irish company to have ever achieved this enviable position in this employee driven assessment of how will a business engages its staff and the bond that exists between all the staff at this Belfast-based firm of central heating engineers is self-evident.

In the space of three years, HEAT has advanced from a ranking of 31st in 2006, to 10th last year, to this year ousting W L Gore & Associates as the Best Company to Work For. No mean feat this, as Gore had topped the survey for four years, from 2004 to 2007.

HEAT, an eaga company, specialise in the design, installation and maintenance of domestic central heating in the social housing market sector in the UK and Ireland and is renowned for both its technical innovation and approach to customer care.

The company installs over 5,000 new heating systems and carries out over 90,000 services annually.

HEAT have long been committed to employee wellbeing and has scored well in the awards for the last two years, coming 31st and 10th respectively, as well as winning the 2007 Ulster Television Employer of the Year Award.