UPDATE July 1, 2020, 3:05pm
The Construction Education Center has received DECD certification and are resuming our in-person continuing education classes.
Attendees must wear a protective face covering while in the building. We will be doing temperature checks with contactless infrared thermometers as you enter the building. If your temperature is over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, you won’t be able to attend class and will be rescheduled. Six feet distance must be maintained from all other people in the building.
Additionally, the Governor issued an Executive Order the evening of June 30, 2020 granting the Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Protection the authority to approve temporary online virtual continuing education classes. We await further directives from the State. Once we can provide online continuing education, we will post that schedule.
Should you have any questions, please email us at info@thinkconstruction.org
UPDATE March 20, 2020, 4:40pm
Today at 3:30pm, Governor Ned Lamont issued the “Stay Safe Stay Home” initiative to promote social distancing and slow the spread of the coronavirus.
NCCER, our accrediting body, currently is still mandating testing and performance profiles to be conducted in-person only. Should this change, instructors and apprentices will be notified. Apprentice programs with curriculum online can continue instruction online. At this time, testing may be completed once the Stay Safe Stay Home initiative has been lifted. Apprenticeship programs without an online component will resume once the Stay Safe Stay Home initiative has been lifted.
Governor Lamont stated that 194 residents in Connecticut are infected with the coronavirus and a fourth fatality in Fairfield County has been reported. Forty people are currently hospitalized in Connecticut with COVID-19 and the State of Connecticut is currently able to test 1,000 potential cases a day.
Staff at CT ABC and CEC will remain working remotely. Should you have any questions regarding apprenticeship, continuing education or any other class, please contact us via email, info@thinkconstruction.org
Stay safe & stay healthy!
UPDATE March 20, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update Regarding Continuing Education Classes
In complying with the Governor’s Executive Order and in the interest of the public health and safety for everyone, all Electrical and Plumbing Continuing Education classes are cancelled until further notice, effective immediately.
If you are currently signed up for a continuing education class, we will reschedule that class once the Connecticut License Examination Boards have given us permission to do so. Should you have any questions, please email us at info@thinkconstruction.org
These are difficult, unprecedented times for us all. We urge you to follow all executive orders and guidelines. We encourage you to follow the CT ABC COVID-19 web page for important updates and information.
Stay safe and stay healthy!
Posted March 18, 2020
The Construction Education Center continues to monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Our priority remains the health and safety of our apprentices, students, instructors, staff, industry partners and our community. Currently, in-person apprenticeship classes are suspended until at least Friday, March 27. Effective Monday, March 16, 2020, apprenticeship courses with an online component are to be completed online until at least Friday, March 27, 2020. We are working with the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), our accrediting body, for solutions to some of the curriculum issues, including final module testing, that we are facing. We will notify all apprentices of a resolution as soon as we can.
For all other classes, currently all scheduled continuing education, safety and professional development classes are cancelled at least through the end of March. We will rescheduled all registrants for at later class date in order to obtain certification requirements.
This is an unprecedented situation for us all and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Please feel free to reach out at any time, info@thinkconstruction.org
