Bensonwood Launches Summer season 2026 Pre-Apprenticeship Program

Walpole, NH — Bensonwood has launched its Summer season 2026 Pre-Apprenticeship Program in Carpentry and Offsite Building, a four-week coaching program starting in July 2026 centered on carpentry, sustainable constructing, and prefabrication.

This system was developed via a Planning Grant with ApprenticeshipNH and designed by Bensonwood builders with help from educator and curriculum specialist Marion Boa. It’s meant for current trades graduates and people with prior development expertise and contains hands-on instruction and publicity to employment alternatives at Bensonwood.

ApprenticeshipNH, a workforce coaching initiative of the Group Faculty System of New Hampshire, helps coaching and profession pathways via Registered Apprenticeship packages.

Contributors within the pre-apprenticeship program will work in Bensonwood’s manufacturing amenities alongside skilled craftspeople, studying each conventional carpentry methods and offsite development strategies. Coaching will deal with instruments, supplies, and processes utilized in high-performance, energy-efficient constructing programs.

“This program introduces contributors to a future-focused mannequin of constructing whereas grounding them within the craft traditions that outline our work,” mentioned Emily Benson, Worker Success Officer at Bensonwood. “After two years of working our Registered Apprenticeship, this pre-apprenticeship creates a low-barrier entry level into each our firm and the trades.”

Ryan Anderson, who just lately accomplished Bensonwood’s apprenticeship program, mentioned the expertise supplied perception into the complete development course of, from design via manufacturing and set up.

This system introduces contributors to a number of profession tracks at Bensonwood, together with Registered Apprentice, Woodworker, Store Carpenter, and Web site Set up Carpenter, with alternatives for development into management and specialised development roles.

Michael Piaseczny mentioned the collaboration between ApprenticeshipNH and Bensonwood has centered on increasing profession pathway alternatives via apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship coaching.

The pre-apprenticeship program additionally serves as a pathway into Bensonwood’s Registered Apprenticeship Program, provided in partnership with ApprenticeshipNH.