Our people
KDH are a family company with vast experience in the construction industry and vocational trades, Managerial operations, up to and including, Directorship level.
Dave Horkan: Managing Director.
Dave Horkan MCIOB: Managing Director
Head of Center IQA.
A Construction specialist with 35 years industry experience in Civil Engineering. Dave is a Chartered Construction Manager and qualified to NOCN-Cskills Level 7 NVQ Diploma, Construction Senior Management.
Throughout his career, Dave has amassed a varied portfolio of skills ranging from Site Management, through to Company Director in a multitude of disciplines, Civil Engineering and Building.
Dave has many years’ diverse experience including Landfill Engineering, Microtunnelling, Horizontal Directional Drilling, BSF programmes and nationwide, mobile infrastructure maintenance.
His last role was operations Director with Carter Accommodation, providing support to the construction industry with dedicated site accommodation, responsible for all areas, production, transport, installation, maintenance and removal, providing a full “Turnkey” package
Graham McPhail: IQA
A Civil Engineering specialist with over 40 years experience in the industry and the education and training sectors.
Graham has a wide portfolio of skills with main experience in construction management, project management, highways engineering, structures and groundworks.
Graham has worked at a senior level in leadership and management at several organisations in construction related disciplines. Throughout his career, Graham has been integral in delivering, assessing and quality assuring high level construction, building and civil engineering educational programmes.
Graham is a former member of the CITB leadership team and a former National Chair of the British Association of Construction Heads. Graham has always aimed to improve the skills and expertise of construction workers and new entrants to the industry whilst embedding the correct values and behaviours.
About Us
We offer a wide range of vocational qualifications at level 2 and 3 NVQ and also offer Supervisory NVQs in Supervision at level 3 and 4. There are a wide range of Managerial NVQs at levels 6 and 7.
Advice will be given to all learners in order to maximise CITB Grant Funding. Wherever possible, funding for NVQs and other qualifications will be raised to support learners.
Our Training facility in West Norfolk is set in idyllic scenery including a fishing lake, stock pond and is located in quiet gardens and makes for a conducive learning environment.
Many of our NVQs on offer are the usual and traditional type of vocation such as Concreting NVQ, Bricklaying NVQ, Plastering NVQ and we also offer Niche NVQs such as Tunnelling NVQ and Directional Drilling NVQs. This will be of particular use to Operatives wishing to work on large infrastructure projects such as Sizewell C.
KDH also offer a full suite of Educational Qualifications in Training, Assessment, Internal Quality Assurance (IQA), External Quality Assurance (EQA) and even in Leading the Internal and External Quality Assurance Processes (LIQA and LEQA). All learners on the educational programmes will receive substantial training in their relative subject before commencing on the qualification and after commencement on programme will be under the wing of an experienced mentor.
The Team at KDH Training have 59 years managerial experience between them, 84 years Construction and Civil Engineering experience and 33 years educational Service to learners from all walks of life.
The Site Right programmes and Training are delivered from our own purpose-built facility and in the location that is required by our learners. For instance, KDH staff have visited Construction Sites and provided Training there.
We have also taken our programmes across the Nation to Training Centres and delivered in our Customer’s locations.
We are in positive partnerships with other Training Centres and Training Personnel enabling capacity to deliver any and all NVQ qualification.
Any Enquiry will receive our full attention, we will give Advice and Guidance to any applicant to us for support.
Our future will include more qualifications relating to the Environment, this will include Retrofit qualifications. Information Technology (IT) is an area that we are considering exploring and offering as there is a clear need for this Training.
Every learner that commences with us will embark on a Learning Journey that will see our learners leave as better and improved individuals, compared to when they commenced with us. We are proud to say that our learners are stretched and challenged but this is done within a supportive bubble that gives all our learners their best chance to succeed.
