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Edison, NJ
Work is coming to a conclusion on the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters’ (NRCC) state-of-the-art training facility in Edison, NJ. When it is opened this Spring, the new 100,000-square-foot, two-story complex will serve as New Jersey’s hub for education and training for more than 1,000 carpenter apprentices.
Along with providing carpenter apprentices’ with core curriculum, NRCC will o er a range of new technologies, including Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology – used by architects and engineers – and a new “Total Station” program – which is the latest in building layout technology.
Additional features of the building include:
• 13 classrooms retro tted with state-of-the-art Audio/ Visual technology.
• Spacious hands-on training for all the skillsets in carpentry, ooring, mill-cabinet, millwright and pile driving trades.
• 14 welding booths.
• A fully equipped cabinet shop to support training for our mill-cabinet program.
• An overhead bridge crane for rigging steel concrete forms, pile driving materials and millwright equipment.
• A 300-seat auditorium with theater seating for NRCC meetings & conferences, professional presentations and apprentice orientations & graduations. The new Training Center will host the Sisters in the Brotherhood Leading the Way Conference from April 13-15th.
To accommodate the anticipated increase in tra c at our complex in Raritan Center, we have also added a ve-level 325 car parking garage, which is adjacent to the training center. The Council has also re-paved the surface parking lot, on the opposite side of the property, to enable the parking of an additional 118 cars.
Union contractors working on the project in Edison include: Fitzpatrick & Associates as the General Contractor; Epic Construction as the Construction Manager; and DePalma Contracting as the Carpentry Contractor.
“Our new state-of-the-art training center in Edison is just one of the many new and refurbished training center that we are building in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland,” said John Ballantyne, Executive Secretary-Treasurer. “All of our training facilities are second to none in training the future carpenters of tomorrow and will look forward to opening the new Edison facility this Spring.”
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