In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, host Stuart Keith meets with members from Steamfitters Local 601 at Summit Refrigeration Group to learn how Ammonia Refrigeration Systems keep our food fresh. Owners Mike Conti, Rick DeGroot and Fred Anderson give a tour as we check out the Summit fabrication shop, visit a cold storage construction site [...]
Plumbers Local 75 took an empty big box store in Madison and transformed it into the new Plumbers Local 75 Madison Training Center and Tributary Hub. In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, host Stuart Keith meets with Steve Breitlow and Cory Thompson from Plumbers Local 75 for a tour of the facility. We’ll [...]
At technical colleges throughout the state, more women are enrolling in trades classes. Madison Area Technical College reports that about a third of the students in their welding certificate program are women. The shortage of skilled workers has caused the Trades to increase recruiting to bring in and train good people, including women. [...]
Here’s this weekend’s Statewide TV Schedule for Building Wisconsin:* Milwaukee – Sunday, January 14 at 10:30 am on WTMJ TV-4. Madison – Sunday, January 14 at 5:30 am on WKOW TV-27 and 6:30 pm on TvW. Green Bay – Saturday, January 13 at 6:00 am on WGBA TV-26 and 8:00 am on WACY TV-32. Sunday, [...]
In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, we learn about Pointer Cleaner Caulker Restoration with the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers of Wisconsin (BACWI). Host Stuart Keith starts at the Building Advantage Construction Career Fair in Milwaukee where high school students - and Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin - learned about bricklaying, tile setting and [...]
The Badger Hollow Solar Farm, Wisconsin's largest, is now operational. The joint project with Madison Gas & Electric and We Energies provides 300 MW of renewable energy, enough to power 90,000 Wisconsin homes. In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, we show how these facilities are built as we feature members from Wisconsin Operating [...]
In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, host Stuart Keith catches up with the "Cowboys In The Sky" as he meets with contractors and members of Ironworkers Local 8 at the Baird Center project in downtown Milwaukee. From massive steel beams being placed to the rebar and reinforcements needed to build a massive structure, Ironworkers [...]
Get a great look back at what was accomplished during Wisconsin's Road Construction season in 2023. We'll begin with host Stuart Keith meeting up with Craig Thompson, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to follow up on a major road construction project near Madison WI along with a review of some of [...]
Here’s this weekend’s TV Schedule for Building Wisconsin:* Milwaukee – Sunday, January 7 at 10:30 am on WTMJ TV-4. Madison – Sunday, January 7 at 5:30 am and 4:00 pm on WKOW TV-27. Wausau – Saturday, January 6 at 5:00 am on WJFW TV-12. Sunday, January 7 at 6:30 am on the CW, 9:30 [...]
In Milwaukee's Deer District, new plans have been announced for the former Punch Bowl Social space, a new luxury hotel, The Trade opened last June and a number of other development plans including a music venue are in the works. In this video from Building Wisconsin TV, we cover past and future development [...]