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New IBEW Lineworker Training Campus Heads to Tennessee

The IBEW will build a new Southeastern Line Constructors Apprenticeship and Training (SELCAT) center near Nashville on a 40-acre plot, reports IBEW News.

The campus will include classrooms, an indoor training yard, dorms, and expansion space. Leadership approved the project to ease strain on existing training facilities and make it easier for union members to access high-quality lineworker instruction. “It made sense for the IBEW and our contractors to have another school,” said Tenth District Vice President Brent Hall.

Once open, the facility will train utility and outside construction apprentices from across the region. The new campus adds capacity, shortens travel times, and supports workforce growth in the electrical trade.

The Electrical Worker

New Lineworker Training Center Coming to Tennessee

Hundreds of IBEW utility and outside construction apprentices will soon count Tennessee as a destination for learning, as work is soon expected to begin on a new Southeastern Line Constructors Apprenticeship and Training facility just east of Nashville.

“It made sense for the IBEW and our contractors to have another school where we could train our members,” said Tenth District International Vice President Brent Hall, whose jurisdiction covers Tennessee, Arkansas and the Carolinas.

SELCAT has one of the largest training programs of its kind in the IBEW, with nearly 900 apprentices from the union’s Fifth and Tenth districts receiving training at the original campus in Newnan, Ga., along with scores more at a second location near Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and at a satellite facility in Puerto Rico. Other large centers in the eastern U.S. include ALBAT in Medway, Ohio, and NEAT in Douglassville, Pa.

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