FCTA Apprentices Win HIA Awards for Bricklaying

Congratulations to Mark Thomas and Maurice Altamura, who both won awards at the HIA–Stratco Apprentice & Trade Contractor Awards held on Friday 16 March at Stratco St Marys. This year they had a record number of attendees with feedback from those who attended...

First Short Course in Acrylic Rendering

We ran our first course this week, with our test student, David. Feedback was really positive, and the results David achieved, outstanding. Now we’ve been able to work through the course and the best way to deliver quality training, we will be running these...

Week 2 CITB Pt Augusta Pre-Apprenticeship Course

The Pt Augusta Youth Centre provided FCTA with the facility being used for this course. Finding a suitable location for training had been one of the issues preventing similar courses being run in Pt Augusta. Over the coming weeks the pre-apprenticeship team will begin...

Wk 1 Pt Augusta CITB Pre-Apprenticeship Course

The first week of the CITB Pt Augusta Pre-Apprenticeship course, and the participants have already started learning how to lay bricks. FCTA takes training out of the classroom, and focuses on the development of practical hand skills. This helps our students gain an...

Outstanding Pre-apprenticeship Award Winner: Angelo Calabria

FCTA- Building Careers have introduced an award for the most outstanding student to complete a pre-apprenticeship. Angelo was voted the best pre-apprentice by the trainers who worked with the team every day, with an average score of 90% across all his practical...

CITB Pre-apprenticeship Update

The students have graduated with a Certificate II in Construction Pathways. This group has been enormously rewarding to work with, with a possible 5 apprenticeship outcomes. We celebrated with a team BBQ and presentation of the certificates.