Articles Tagged with ''training and education''

The event will include several segments of technical training presented by John Siegenthaler, P.E.

The platform currently supports plumbing contractors, with additional features and expanded trade coverage planned as part of a long-term development roadmap. 

Did you know that plumbing apprenticeships can be dated all the way back to the European medieval period? Back in the 1300s-1500s, Masters of trades would take on young, unskilled workers and teach them their craft in exchange for their indentured servitude, wherein they would work for years without pay while they honed their craft.

Interplay Learning has been ranked No. 10 on the Austin Business Journal’s fastest-growing private companies list.

Xcelerator aims to equip home service contractors with the systems, structure and financial clarity needed to eliminate bottlenecks and scale with confidence.

You can teach anyone to sweat a copper joint or wire a circulator pump. What’s much harder to teach is attitude, curiosity, pride in craftsmanship, and the ability to make a customer feel at ease.

Launching in January, the small-group program will bring together up to fifteen PHCC members each month for guided discussions, shared problem-solving, and accountability.

Interplay Learning’s 2025 State of Skilled Trades Training Report reveals how simulation-based learning is reshaping technician development, showing that employers are ramping up workers faster, improving retention and overcoming persistent labor shortages through immersive digital training.

In this episode of And So It Flows, host Natalie Forster sits down with Spencer Pope, manager of technical support and training at Bradford White, to explore how education and workforce development are evolving across the plumbing, HVAC and mechanical trades.

Kit Dickinson explores six strategies contractors can use to train, retain, and motivate a younger workforce in an industry undergoing rapid change.