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Pearland Firm Opens Academy for Skilled Workers

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In Pearland, Texas, a local construction company launched its own academy to tackle the growing shortage of skilled workers. The program provides hands on training in electrical work, carpentry, and pipefitting and features a mobile classroom that brings instruction directly to more communities.

Several hundred students have already completed the courses, and company leaders plan to expand enrollment as demand for trade professionals continues to climb across the state.


Faced with a worker shortage, a construction company in Pearland developed its own academy - KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston

VIDEO: If you've wanted to work in construction, there's a new academy offering ways to break in. When it comes to finding new electricians or boilermakers, there's an academy taking a different approach. It looks like a technical school, but it's not.

It's an academy built and developed by a construction company to solve a growing problem. "It's extremely difficult to find people that want to break into this industry, actually," Burns and McDonnell craft workforce development director Chad Whetro explained.

Burns & McDonnell opened the 14,000 square foot academy this year at its Pearland location. Instead of hiring workers with experience or education, they're providing it to them. The academy is in Pearland, but they can take the classroom across the region and country with this mobile unit.

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