b'BUSINESS MANAGEMENTFor all of the students, do the roofing companiesthat we not do that anymore because students that pay for them to take the classes? Do any oftake time off may not come back. Right now we them pay for themselves? have a class that ends on July 6, which is Roofing The companies pay for them. Unfortunately, so far,IIA, and we just decided that Roofing IIB will start we have not had the participation we would likeon July 13, seven days later, and we are not going to see from other companies. For instance, theto take any break at all. current class has four students and theyre all fromCan students take more than one class at a KPost Company. The last class just graduatedtime?and had their ceremony last night. That was fiveNo, they are all consecutive. You have to do one students. Four were from KPost and one was fromclass in order to take the next class.Chamberlain Roofing and Waterproofing.DotheotherinstructorscomefromotherWhen do your classes usually meet?companies? Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the day. The No, there are four instructors and they are all fromemployee or apprentice is paid by their parent KPost. Glauco Gutierrez, Luciano Perez, and Johncompany for regular hours for training, so not only Reyna. Luciano Perez is our safety manager.are they getting a free education, they get paid Glauco Gutierez is a superintendent as is Johnwhile they are sitting in a classroom or in the lab. Reyna.There is a mock-up where we install all of these different types of roof as well.Were you already doing something similar hereWhat is the facility that provides all of this?in the company before this program started?Not like this, no. We do a lot of safety training andTheConstructionEducationFoundationin a lot of product-specific training. For example, fromCarrollton.Carlisle or Supreme, but no, nothing like this. What kind of hurdles did you go through to get So what does this program specifically cover? this program off the ground?It starts with steep slope roofing. Weve gottenWestillhaveanissue.Wearestilltryingto some pushback from some commercial companiesconvince companies to put up that kind of money because they dont do steep slope roofing, so whyto train their employees. We have seen some would they spend money to teach this? But wesignificant gains in the people we have sent to teach all kinds of roofing. So it starts with asphaltthe classes. For example, one was promoted to shingles, wood and shape shingles, concrete andLead Man, and he is way ahead of the curve when clay tile roofing, slate roofing, metal roofing. Thoseyou consider how long he has been in roofing. are all steep slope applications. Then we go toAnother one only finished the first two semesters low-slope, which is single-ply TPO/PVC, built upand his foreman and his crews are already asking roofing, modified roofing, liquid applied roofing,him, Where did you learn all of this? How do you and then surface. We cover basically everything. know all of this? We have another one who just graduated last night who has already been moved How many classes does it take to cover all ofto the Service department to be an Assessor. So this? he has moved from being a journeyman-type out I would loosely call them semesters. Its brokenon the roof to being an Assessor, and his ultimate intofoursections.Theresacoreclassthatgoal is to be an Estimator. He has a lot of talent, teaches basic math and basic safey, etc. whichand hes showing it. I can tell you that for all eight is ten weeks. Roofing I is ten weeks, and Roofingof the students from KPost, it has really changed IIA and IIB is twenty weeks.their outlook on life and their focus on being a career roofer.Are they all consecutive? How many people have you had graduate so No,inthepastCEF,ConstructionEducationfar?Foundation, they laid out for the summer. I insistedFive. The other four will graduate in September.www.mrca.orgMidwest Roofer 7'