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.

The ceremony celebrated the association’s commitment to the Pledge to America’s Workers.

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?

Those interested will be able to register through Friday, Jan. 3.

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.

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.  

So much has been written and said about how to work with the millennial worker that we seem to have glossed over the generation that preceded them — the proud men and women of Generation X.