Building a workforce: Northwest Carpenters expand training center
BURLINGTON — From a second-story picture window overlooking 16 miniature construction sites, Greg Brady surveyed the shop floor of the state’s newest training center for carpenters.
The frame of a small tilt-up wall sat just under the window, nearly ready to be filled with concrete and lifted into place. Diagonally across the room, concrete girders and lumber outlined the structure of a roughly 18-foot bridge.
Each site represents a station where apprentices can learn the trade and hone their craft, explained Brady, the program coordinator for the Northwest Carpenters Insitute’s Burlington training center. The new building provides three times more shop space than the 1980s-era facility it replaced.
It will serve as a beacon for future carpenters, a boon for diversity in the industry and a supplier of future talent to the workforce, Brady said.
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