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Residential Construction Training Series Extends to HVAC and Plumbing

Three years in the making and the result of a partnership between the Home Builders Institute and Thomson/Delmar Learning, the RCA Series is the only comprehensive trades training system that focuses solely on the home building industry. Skill standards developed by NAHB members provide the basis for the instructional materials.

Earlier titles in the series are: “Basic Principles for Construction,” “Carpentry,” “Electrical Principles” and “House Wiring.”

The two new titles also include supplemental teaching tools such as videos that use graphics and animation to make concepts easy to understand; an instructor’s guide; and a CD-ROM containing pre- and post-tests and other teaching resources. Schools, training organizations and individual students utilizing the RCA Series materials are eligible to become credentialed by HBI.

HBI initiated this innovative partnership in 2001 to help fill a void in quality, standard-based teaching tools in residential construction. “Schools and training organizations needed a turnkey teaching package to prepare students for the challenges of a residential construction career,” says Alison Weintraub, acquisitions editor for Thomson/Delmar Learning. “Residential Construction Academy delivers that package. We’re proud to partner with the Home Builders Institute in meeting the needs of our customers and the workforce.”

To enable HBAs to take advantage of the series and to assist in the development of an educated workforce, HBI and Thomson Delmar Learning have provided the materials at a discount to home builders associations so that they can donate them to libraries and schools in their communities.

For more information on the RCA Series or to order materials, click here.

To review resources that are available on line and for more information on program credentialing, click here.

To learn more about the RCA Series donation program, e-mail Joseph Krinock or call him at 800-795-7955 x8928.

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