Initially launching with Encircle-specific content that focuses on documentation best practices and restorative drying, the learning management system will become a hub with course offerings from industry experts, including CE credit courses.
ACE is a free, award-winning, afterschool program designed to attract high school students into pursuing careers in the architecture, construction and engineering industry, including skilled trades.
Longtime construction industry leader, instructor and military veteran Frank Boecker testified on behalf of Associated Builders and Contractors before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development on the indispensable role that community colleges, trade schools and career and technical education programs play in the construction industry.
The event will take place at The Mirage, Las Vegas. Presenters include Jeff Cross of ISSA, IICRC instructors Mark Exner and Doug Hieferman, and Dane Gregory.
The advisory committee promotes greater awareness of the benefits of apprenticeship, fosters increased alignment between apprenticeship opportunities and workforce and education systems, expands apprenticeship into new industries and occupations, and ensures equity for under-represented populations.
This R&R Q&A features a topic that’s gotten even more popular since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: duct cleaning. Today, extensive cleaning and disinfection services often include the HVAC system, which has prompted some restoration contractors to add duct cleaning as an additional service.
Nearly everything our technicians do on the job has a WHY and SO WHAT associated with it. Anyone can train a water damage restoration technician to use a hygrometer and moisture meter, but do they all understand WHY we take atmospheric and moisture content readings, and the SO WHAT of each reading? It makes a difference.