2022 Nationwide Apprentice Contest Winners Introduced

FALLS CHURCH, VA – The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors — Nationwide Affiliation’s (PHCC) Academic Basis is proud to announce the winners of the nationwide plumbing and HVAC apprentice contests. The contests had been held October 5^th & 6^th in Charlotte, North Carolina on the tradeshow ground in the course of the PHCC—Nationwide Affiliation’s CONNECT 2022 occasion. A complete of eighteen plumbing and ten HVAC apprentices from throughout the nation took half within the contests.

Plumbing Apprentice Contest Winners

• First place: Jake Elsbecker, from Midwestern Mechanical in Spencer, Iowa. He was sponsored by Zoeller.
• Second place: Scott Hicks, Jr. from TD Industries in Houston, Texas. He was sponsored by the Worldwide Code Council.
• Third place: Alex Estevez from B Wagner Contracting in Allentown, New Jersey. He was sponsored by the Copper Growth Affiliation.

HVAC Apprentice Contest Winners

• First Place: Sebastian Uhde, from Magnolia Plumbing, Heating and Cooling in Washington D.C. He was sponsored by the PHCC Nationwide Auxiliary.
• Second place: Harrison Bosler, from Howe Inc. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was sponsored by NIBCO, INC.
• Third Place: Sean Reed, from Reddick and Sons in Manassas, Virginia. He was sponsored by RIDGID.

The plumbing apprentices had been required rough-in a rest room system. The set-up features a bathroom, sink and bathe, full with provide, waste and vent strains, plus cleanouts and further options designed to check the contestants’ information and expertise. The take a look at set-up contains quite a lot of pipe supplies – forged iron, copper, and PVC and corresponding becoming a member of strategies.

The HVAC rivals had been required to finish a written take a look at, exhibit correct brazing strategies and carry out a hands-on diagnostic on an HVAC bundle unit, with system errors created by the Basis’s contractor volunteers for the competitors. The rivals additionally needed to carry out a stress and leak take a look at, exhibit correct refrigerant restoration procedures and the power to precisely take quite a lot of instrument readings.  

A devoted workforce of contractor volunteers arrived two days earlier than the competitions to assemble the competitor take a look at benches, distribute the supplies and provides and setup the testing areas. They monitor the competitions, consider the apprentices’ work and supply constructive suggestions on every competitor’s efficiency following the occasion.

Trade Sponsorship

The contests are made doable by the beneficiant help of a number of trade sponsors who present financial help and in-kind materials and gear donations. There have been over fifty sponsors for the 2022 competitions, together with (with headline sponsors showing in daring): A. O. Smith; AB&I Foundry; Bradford White Corp.; Forged Iron Soil Pipe Institute; Contractor Journal; Copper Growth Affiliation; Delta Faucet Co.; Emerson Copeland; Ferguson; Worldwide Code Council; Kohler Firm; Legend Valve; Milwaukee Software; Moen;NIBCO INC.; North American Technician Excellence (NATE); Oatey; PHCC Academy; PHCC-Nationwide Auxiliary; Plumbing & Mechanical Journal; Rheem; RIDGID; Sharkbite; State Water Heaters; Tyler Pipe & Coupling and Zoeller Pump Firm. 

Milwaukee Software made a significant contribution to the Apprentice Contests once more this yr by donating a lot of the instruments wanted by the contestants for the competitors. This reward allowed the rivals to skip the difficulty of delivery their very own instruments and to go dwelling with a brand new set of instruments to energy their work lengthy after the competitors ends. RIDGID can also be offering instruments to every of the highest putting rivals.

“Now we have a wonderful workforce of volunteers and sponsors who be sure that every part these apprentices want is onsite and able to go when it’s time for the competitors to start,” stated Basis Chairman Kevin Tindall. “The apprentices get to have an expertise they’ll keep in mind their total life and the PHCC CONNECT attendees get to see the abilities of the following era in motion.”