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The Plumbing and Heating competition at WorldSkills Shanghai 2021 will reinstate the same trio of global industry experts who oversaw the previous event at WorldSkills Kazan 2019.
The multi-tiered program aims to recruit and empower the next generation of talent to fill the urgent need of jobs in the design and construction industry.
The project tasked students with developing a proposal to be the prime contractor on a chiller and cooling tower replacement project in the Penn South building in New York City.
Messina is a familiar face to many in the plumbing industry, having grown up in the business and spending the last seven years in various marketing roles for some of the biggest names in plumbing wholesaling.
While the need to find young professionals has been met with urgency in various ways from affinity groups to mentorship program, there is now a second concern at hand: how do we keep the young talent that we get?
When Cheever snowboards in World Cup races this winter, he'll have the Viega logo on his uniform. When he installs hot water heaters this summer, he’ll have Viega fittings in his toolbox.
How I got into a great career, and why we all need to help the next generation do the same.
December 5, 2019
For the past 11 years, I’ve owned Blue Planet Plumbing, in Asheville, North Carolina, but I entered the plumbing trade at the early age of 17. It all started in 1992, on a hot summer night after clocking out at 2 a.m. after working a 17-hour shift at a popular chain restaurant for minimum wage pay of $4.25 an hour.