Articles Tagged with ''training and education''

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.

Upcoming courses aim to provide strategies for business owners to strengthen their teams and accelerate growth in areas including sales, marketing, financials, service delivery and more.

Trade Academy has opened applications for its expanded Scholarship program, aiming to break down financial barriers and equip the next generation of plumbers, electricians and HVAC technicians with the tools, training and tuition support they need.

Enrollment is now open for the new Houston campus. 

At sea, there’s no backup system for clean water. Every drop must be filtered, pumped and protected — and that’s where plumbers come in. On Mercy Ships’ floating hospitals, skilled volunteers work to maintain these life-sustaining systems, ensuring that the ability to deliver safe, reliable care doesn’t leave when the ship sails away.