Mentorship leads to career change for Pennsylvania balancer
Adriana Farren has always been into numbers. She earned a bachelor’s degree in human resources with a minor in finance and worked in the front office of the former Sheet…
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Five Questions: Ted Kuczynski, former ITI administrator
Ted Kuczynski’s life set out on its course from the moment he joined Sheet Metal Workers Local 18’s apprenticeship program in 1971. He began teaching part time soon after his…
‘Think ahead’: The ITI turns 50 (part 3)
As the millennium appeared on the horizon, International Training Institute (ITI) leadership knew a change in training was needed for instructors and apprentices. For apprentices, the curriculum in place wasn’t…
Veterans in first SMART Heroes class graduate apprenticeship
Two members of the first class of SMART Heroes, the unionized sheet metal industry’s bridge from military life to a civilian career in sheet metal, welding and heating, ventilation and…
New Jersey contractor helps prominent D.C. building safely reopen
In preparation for reopening their headquarters after the prolonged shutdown due to COVID-19, owners of the United Unions Building in Washington, D.C. — the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air,…
SMOHIT welcomes new program director
This summer, the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust Inc. (SMOHIT) welcomed Aldo Zambetti as program director. Zambetti started in sheet metal in 1980 and spent 20 years at the…
ITI develops, implements Ventilation Verification curriculum
The first Ventilation Verification Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) pilot course for training coordinators and instructors was offered via virtual platform by the International Training Institute (ITI), the educational arm of…
STEPS Challenge winners reflect on their success
Since 2017, the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust, Inc. (SMOHIT) has organized a STEPS Challenge twice each year among members who want to walk their way to better health,…
The ITI Turns 50: Five questions with a former administrator
Richard “Dick” Peck started his sheet metal apprenticeship in 1958 and became a journey worker in 1962 at Sheet Metal Workers Local 20 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A former administrator…
‘If you don’t walk forward, you will fall behind’: The ITI turns 50 (part 2)
The second 15 years of existence for the National Training Fund (NTF), now known as the International Training Institute, were — like many teenage growing periods — full of momentum.…