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Tysha: My name is Tysha, I work for Equinix. I’m an apprentice in the Critical Facilities role.

Joshua Fade: My name is Joshua Fade, and I’m an electrical apprentice. I work for Gratte Brothers.

Ahsan Moghadasy: My name is Ahsan Moghadasy. My job title is Critical Facilities Engineer Apprentice.

Ben Lavery: My name is Ben Lavery, I’m an electrician for Gratte Brothers and I’ve been on the apprenticeship scheme for four years.

Joshua Fade: The apprentice swap is where each apprentice can learn different skills. Even though they’ve got their main maintenance and electrical, they can learn the different sides of what each apprentice does.

Tysha: I’ve only just started working with Gratte Brothers, so I’ve been with them for a few days and I plan to be working with Grattes for the next two weeks. In my role at Equinix, it’s mainly maintenance, so for me it’s great exposure to the installation side and being a bit more hands on.

Ben Lavery: The highlight? So where we do electrical, we went off with the water people and they sort of taught us their side of things. You don’t really realise what goes on in these buildings behind the scenes. There’s a lot more to it than just data cabinets and stuff like that. With regards to how they cool their buildings down, that was a big thing for us – we never really do any of that. So, to see that side of things was quite eye-opening.

Ahsan Moghadasy: I think it’s a really good thing because we get to experience the installation side of things, whereas in my other building, I do mainly maintenance so we don’t get to see that side of the building. My highlight, I’ll say just getting involved with the installation side of things really, just getting more hands-on, being able to be, you know, doing things by myself.

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