Every track below runs at the Academy in Atlanta. Most participants complete several, and leave with a stack of cards a contractor recognizes on sight.
The nationally recognized pre-apprenticeship curriculum built by North America’s Building Trades Unions. Covers trade math, blueprint reading, tools, and the history and structure of the union trades — the credential apprenticeship programs actually recognize.
Federal construction safety training. An OSHA card is the baseline every contractor asks for before you set foot on a job site, and every GABTA participant leaves with one.
Shop time on real equipment. Participants learn to strike an arc, run a bead, and read a weld — the entry skill behind ironworking, pipefitting, boilermaking, and sheet metal.
Powered industrial truck certification. A short course with an immediate payoff — it is one of the few credentials that can move somebody into work the same month they earn it.
Certification in first aid, CPR, and automated external defibrillator use. Required on most commercial sites and useful everywhere else.
A driver’s license is the single most common barrier between a graduate and a job site. GABTA runs driver’s education directly so transportation stops being the reason a career stalls.
Getting to the job is part of keeping the job. 4 Wheels 4 Work helps graduates secure reliable transportation so a first shift does not become a last shift.
A companion to 4 Wheels 4 Work, helping graduates carry insurance on the vehicle that gets them to work.
You do not pick a track up front. Apply to the Academy and we will build the schedule with you.
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