Northeast Carpenters Apprenticeship Fund Edison Training Center – Apprenticeship Training is Appropriate

On Jul 4, 2019

New Jersey’s apprentice carpenters have a new state-of-the-art training facility providing them with the best equipment and instruction available in the industry as they advance on their career path to journeyman status.

The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters built its 100,000-square-foot New Jersey Carpenters Apprentice Training Center next to the council’s offices in Edison, a central location, as the council is consolidating its several New Jersey training facilities into one. The two-story complex is expected to provide training for approximately 1,200 carpenter apprentices annually. A collaboration between union partners and the industry as a whole to identify the skill sets necessary to carry a young man or woman on his or her career path and be a highly efficient, productive member of the workforce, the facility also serves as an ongoing training and certification center for journeyman carpenters.

The facility has vast open spaces for hands-on training in all the carpentry, flooring, mill-cabinet, millwright and pile driving trade skill sets; classrooms retrofitted with state-of-the-art audio-visual technology; an overhead bridge crane for rigging steel concrete forms, pile driving materials and millwright equipment; welding booths; a fully-equipped cabinet shop to support the mill-cabinet program; and a 300-seat auditorium equipped for meetings and professional presentations.

Noting that many young people are turning to the trades as a career and anticipating the industry’s future, the new training center will help ensure that its graduates and union carpenters have a modern facility where they can learn, receive ongoing training and sharpen their job skills and general industry knowledge of the latest materials, building requirements and technological advances. Further, as the carpenter trades are seen as critical to New Jersey’s economic strength and future growth, the center expects to work with the state on workforce development.

During the $32-million project construction, which also included a five-level parking garage, the council employed more than 100 carpenters. Today, the site employs more than 19 full-time workers and six part-time workers.

OWNER

Northeast Carpenters
Apprenticeship Fund
Edison

ARCHITECT

Di Cara | Rubino Architects
Wayne

BUILDER

Epic Construction
Piscataway 

Fitzpatrick & Associates, Inc.
Eatontown

FINANCE ENTITY

Northeast Carpenters Pension Fund
Edison

NOMINATOR

Tom Peric, President
PericPR
Cherry Hill