The ABC Construction Academy facilitates opportunities for career growth in the construction industry through continuing education programs targeting craft workers, foremen, supervisors, project managers, superintendents and company management.
Providing such programs is important to the construction industry to achieve knowledgeable employees and a safe work environment.
ABC Construction Academy is an accredited member of the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).
This accreditation means the ABC Construction Academy met and exceeded all the required standards of the nationally standardized program. As a result, each student is entered into a national teaching program that can be easily transferred among accredited sponsors and throughout the industry. In other words, an ABC Construction Academy student can take their transcripts to any other participating NCCER member and continue training, having a recognized document to reflect past classroom experiences.
More than 325 training facilities in 50 states and eight countries are proud to be NCCER Accredited Training Sponsors. Millions of craft professionals and construction managers have received quality construction education through NCCER’s network of Accredited Training Sponsors and the thousands of Training Units associated with the Sponsors. Every year the number of NCCER Accredited Training Sponsors increases significantly.
ABC provides formal apprenticeship training programs that are registered with the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT). These programs meet all federal and state requirements for formal apprenticeship and prevailing wage work including employer-sponsored classroom instruction and on-the-job training (OJT).
Apprenticeship training combines work and academics in a formal program leading to journeyperson consideration.
The student must be 18 years of age, physically capable of performing required tasks, working for an employer, able to collect OJT time, and registered through their employer with the US Department of Labor. The majority of the crafts require 8,000 hours of on-the-job supervised training
(approximately four years for full time work) along with 576 hours of classroom training
(approximately four years). Upon successful completion, craft workers are recognized at the journey-level in their trade and are awarded their BAT certificate.
Craft Training
This program offers the exact same program as the apprenticeship program, however, it does not track on-the-job training hours. The student may or may not work in their desired trade, and must be at least 17 years of age. The academic requirements for the student craft learner are identical to the apprentice.
A students first year of school, consists of a craft fundamentals, a
Core curriculum class and
Level I for a determined trade. The Core class is a required class to enter into any of the trades.
- Basic Construction Safety
- Introduction to Power Tools
- Introduction to Hand Tools
- Introduction to Blueprints
- Construction Math
- Basic Rigging
- Basic Employability Skills
- Basic Communication Skills
Classes for the fall semester begin Monday, August 9, 2010. Contact the ABC office at
(989) 832-8879 for more information.