St. Louis, MO, July 19--Instructors of the International Standards and Training Alliance (INSTALL) are training thousands of professional installers with the most up-to-date industry information available as part of a new curriculum in carpet and resilient flooring installation.
INSTALL staff spent a year creating the new curricula by systematically implementing data collected over two years from installation experts at many leading mills and manufacturers on what skills are needed to properly install these two categories of materials. INSTALL instructors from around the country combined the data with market trends, job site conditions and other research, and created dozens of PowerPoints that explore virtually every aspect of installation.
“This is a comprehensive carpet and resilient curriculum in every sense of the word,” said Jim Schmid, international director of floorcovering for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and director of INSTALL. “No stone has been left unturned. We show every segment of installation, and every lesson is backed-up with solid research to fall back on if any questions arise.”
There are 34 PowerPoint presentations for the carpet curriculum, totaling more than 4,000 slides. Of that number, two PowerPoints deal directly with carpet manufacturing, including dyeing. “We believe that if an installer doesn’t understand the products they are working with, they won’t be able to install them properly,” said Gary Kloth, flooring representative of the UBC, who coordinated the curriculum project.
Kloth and his team spent an average of 75 minutes on each slide in research, reaching consensus, coordinating photos and writing the lesson’s text. So, in just the carpet curriculum, more than 5,000 hours were spent constructing the many lesson plans.
This fall, INSTALL will present an overview of the carpet curriculum in Dalton, Georgia and the resilient curriculum in Philadelphia. Mill and manufacturer representatives are welcome to attend. More details about these presentations will be released soon. For more information about the new curricula or the presentations, contact Jim Schmid at 314-951-0999.
