Glazier Apprenticeship & Journey Worker Training
Glazier apprenticeships and journey worker training programs provide structured pathways to becoming a skilled glazier. These programs combine on-the-job training with classroom instruction, typically lasting 3-4 years. Upon completion, glaziers achieve journeyman status, enabling them to work independently and mentor apprentices.
Project Management Training
Designed for both employers and IUPAT members to provide the skills needed to compete in the increasingly competitive construction marketplace. It teaches core project management competencies as well as helping develop valuable personal and relationship skills, and is constantly updated to reflect the latest knowledge and trends.
This course combines distance and classroom learning, and prerequisites must be completed online before the three-day classroom portion. The class size is limited to between 15 and 25 members, so be sure to apply early once it is announced in your area.
Project Management Program topics include:
- Program overview
- Understanding your behavioral style
- Motivating your team
- Preparing the estimate
- Resolving conflict
- Planning the work
- Managing cost and production
- Managing change
- Diversity is the norm
- Managing customer relationships
- Your plan for continued learning
- To register for the iFTI Project Management 2.1 Program, click on your class choice listed below to complete the enrollment application.
Estimating Essentials
A two-day class for the “apprentice” estimator, who may be a recent hire or an up-and-coming journey worker or foreman whose skills you want to further develop, that explains each of the necessary steps that lead to winning bids. It includes classroom and hands-on estimating practice, from document review through quantity takeoff and the calculation of all direct and indirect costs, concluding with the total price bid. Apprentice estimators work with mentors on projects in the finishing trades in this results-focused training.
Estimating Essentials program topics include:
- The estimate and the estimator
- Contracts and other bid documents
- Quantity takeoff
- Direct costs
- Indirect costs, contingencies and overhead
- Common errors made and how to avoid them
- Practice estimates
- Internet resources and tools
AGMT
There are over 2,000 AGMT certified IUPAT Glaziers across North America.
IUPAT Glaziers supplies AGMT installers as another quality assurance tool for owners and contractors. The Architectural Glass & Metal Technician (AGMT) program is a personnel certification process featuring a third-party, independent assessment of a glazier’s knowledge and ability. AGMT tests an experienced glazier’s fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities through written and hands-on assessments. Because products, systems, and procedures are ever-changing, to maintain the AGMT credential, certified technicians must renew their certification every four years. AGMT is North America’s only ANSI/ISO-accredited certification for architectural glass and metal.
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Glazing Industry Seminars
Join us for glazing industry webinars hosted by the National Architectural Glass and Metal Association (NAGMA), our employer association partner.
IUPAT Glaziers has collaborated with the National Architectural Glass and Metal Association (NAGMA), our employer association partner to bring the industry a webinar series designed to share insights on glass and glazing topics that apply nationwide. All architectural glass and metal industry personnel are encouraged to attend including architects, contractors, building envelope consultants, facility managers, and anyone interested in learning about glass and glazing products and issues.
There is no fee to register and attend these webinars. The webinar events are hosted virtually and participants can join from a desktop or laptop computer, phone, or tablet.
