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Governments and governmental officials have a unique and pivotal role to play in expanding green jobs and business opportunities in the green economy, particularly as it relates to the built environment. Construction personnel throughout the country must be trained and credentialed in order to meet environmental and health goals. And to ensure that these trained and credentialed construction personnel are employed, preferences and requirements for them need to be made in projects administered by governments.
You can join with other governmental entities to further advance this success story with these three steps:
- Coordinate with community and state training resources offering Green Building Workshops and Courses
- Have one or more of the Green Advantage Certification Exams included with the program
- Residential
- Commercial
- Commercial/Residential
- Write bid or construction document specifications that prefer or require Green Advantage® Certified Practitioners on all your jurisdiction’s capital projects -- View GA's Construction Field Personnel Standard
Train your workforce, provide a nationally respected and accepted green building credential and then prefer or require that credential on the jobsite… Make sustainability a reality while providing local jobs for a qualified workforce. Here are some examples:
The Colorado Community College System has created a state wide industry-driven model to prepare and credential workers within the green building industry. 13 community colleges in the state will offer a training program that will include Green Advantage® Certification beginning Fall 2009. The program will instruct the state’s community college students on the latest in green construction practices and technologies and offer a nationally respected and accepted credential through Green Advantage. Governor Ritter states the program is expected to serve as a national template for how to prepare and credential workers.
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>> View press release
HUD/National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) include GA in Green Property Management Program
The National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA), HUD Office of Affordable Preservation and National Apartment Association Education Institute (NAAEI) have included Green Advantage® in the newly offered Green Property Management Program. The program will ensure the latest techniques and technologies for making cost-saving green improvements are incorporated at properties nationwide. The Green Property Management program will benefit on-site managers, maintenance staff and supervisors of front-line staff at affordable and conventional apartment communities employing Green Operations and Maintenance Practices. OAHP will underwrite an estimated cost for this training and credential, and ongoing continuing education as an eligible property expense.
>> Visit www.nahma.org
>> NAHMA Green Property Management - Application
The National Job Corps Association (NJCA) is offering green construction trainings and Green Advantage® Certification to workers at Job Corps’ 122 centers across the nation coinciding with the current administration’s goals to stimulate the country’s economy, put hundreds of thousands of Americans back to work, and invest in America’s future with green jobs and technologies. Job Corps’ success has rested in large part on its responsiveness to employers and the emerging needs of our economy.
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has announced two of the 2009 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Training and Education Program grant recipients have included Green Advantage® Certification in their program. Proposed activities should result in the development of new training and education programs or the creation of new jobs or businesses in the target communities.
West Virginia Women Work will combine Green Advantage® Certification with a well-established, employment-based, skilled-trades training program designed to prepare adult women for entry level positions as laborers, carpenter helpers, and statewide union construction apprentices.
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter with RRCC Students
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