Adaptive Construction Solutions Provides Ironworker Training to Veterans
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A training tower provides a real-world setting for learning ironworking skills. |
August 2, 2016 - Adaptive Construction Solutions Inc. (ACS), Houston, has been approved by the Steel Erectors Association of America as a SEAA/NCCER Ironworker Training Unit and Assessment Site. The company, which opened its doors in April and recently became a member of SEAA, completed its first two training classes in June and July, providing 36 veterans with Level 1 Ironworker training.
ACS hires military veterans, trains them to become ironworkers, and contracts them out to local gteneral contractor and steel-erection contractor partners in the Gulf Coast region. The company was founded by Nick Morgan, a commercial insurance agent, U.S. Army staff sergeant, and veteran of the Iraq War. “We are veterans, taking care of veterans for the purpose of retraining military personnel and supplying much-needed qualified workers into the construction industry,” said USMC Sgt. Brittany Burton, marketing director for ACS.
Initial training consists of an intensive 96-hour program, with classroom and hands-on training over a 12-day period. This includes use of a training tower, which provides a real-world environment for lifting and placing steel, learning fall protection and prevention techniques, bolting, welding, and other tasks. ACS uses the SEAA/NCCER ironworker curriculum.
Upon completion of the initial training period, veterans immediately enter the workforce with enough skills to be a productive apprentice member of their ironworking crew. Empire Steel, Postel International, and Steelco are among the companies in the greater Houston area that have hired ACS ironworkers for projects.
