Who are the best of the best when it comes to craft workforce training?
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance Inc. recently honored high schools, post-secondary institutions and skilled craft contracting companies who have mastered it. Here’s a look:
High Schools
Award of Recognition: Brusly/WBR Career Academy
Award of Merit: Joseph A. Cuillier Career Center, Northeast High School, False River
Academy, French Settlement High School, Zachary High School, and East Ascension High
School
Award of Excellence: East Baton Rouge Career and Technical Education Center, Live Oak
High School, West Feliciana High School, Walker High School, and St. Amant High School
Post-Secondary Institutions
Technical Education
Excellence: ABC Pelican, Baton Rouge Community College, and River Parishes Community
College
Continuing Education
Excellence: Alliance Safety Council
Merit: LSU Continuing & Digital Education
Contracting Companies
Companies were divided into divisions dependent on company size and total company
hours worked.
General Construction and Maintenance
Excellence: Excel and Performance Contractors
Merit: Cajun Industries, CAM Industrial Solutions, Brown and Root, and Turner Industries
Group
Hard Craft
Excellence: Triad Electric and Controls and ISC
Merit: Westgate and MMR
Specialty Trade
Excellence: Pala and Turner Specialty Services
Merit: Precision Inspection Services and Brock
Recognition: Deep South Crane and Rigging, BrandSafeway, and Total Safety
Hall of Fame Awards
GBRIA also awarded two Craft Workforce Development Hall of Fame Awards to two
individuals who have demonstrated a lifetime of achievement that has impacted
generations of students and improved Louisiana’s Craft Workforce Development
educational efforts.
Those honorees were Art Favre, owner and chairman of the Board of Performance Contractors Inc. in Baton Rouge; and Steve Welch, plant manager at OxyChem in Convent
