HVAC SCHOOLS

[robhvac]

What are some good schools for hvac in the chicago area? anybody have some suggestions?

[didor80]

HVAC Tech The Hands-On Heating And Air Conditioning School in Bedford Park.

[2hot2coolme]

Triton College, best program out there.

It's kinda long, about 2 yrs to complete but well worth it!

They have state of the art equipment there to work on and they make sure you learned something when you complete the course.

I talk to guys who went to ETI and I would ask them if they did any brazing in the course and all of them tell me "once" I could'nt believe it. They said the instructors there said it wasn't that important.

When I had lab (about 10 yrs ago) for basic refrigeration, we would be bending and brazing/soft soldering for 4 months.

Each course is 4 months long and they start with:

Basic refrigeration
Basic electricity
Advanced refrigeration 1
Advanced electricity
Advanced refrigeration 2
Heating
Calculation & Design
Stationary Engineering
Sheet metal

I think you only need 30 credits to get the certificate, each class is worth 4 credits, but I went for my associates degree which required 65

[tinner73]

Sheet Metal Workers Local 73--Hillside

Pipefitters Local 597----Chicago

[2hot2coolme]

Originally posted by tinner73
Sheet Metal Workers Local 73--Hillside

Pipefitters Local 597----Chicago



This is a school?

[tinner73]

where do you think all that cool training happens?

[2hot2coolme]

I thought local 73 was just tin knockin. ( not that it's a bad thing) ...:)

And 597 being a plumbers union.

[tinner73]

73 has metal layout, practical math, drafting, service, TAB, welding, CAD, etc.. lots of night classes.

it's a four year apprenticeship with a fairly high failure rate. it's not easy.

597 is five year apprenticeship

130 is plumbers

[robhvac]

Originally posted by 2hot2coolme
Triton College, best program out there.

It's kinda long, about 2 yrs to complete but well worth it!

They have state of the art equipment there to work on and they make sure you learned something when you complete the course.

I talk to guys who went to ETI and I would ask them if they did any brazing in the course and all of them tell me "once" I could'nt believe it. They said the instructors there said it wasn't that important.

When I had lab (about 10 yrs ago) for basic refrigeration, we would be bending and brazing/soft soldering for 4 months.

Each course is 4 months long and they start with:

Basic refrigeration
Basic electricity
Advanced refrigeration 1
Advanced electricity
Advanced refrigeration 2
Heating
Calculation & Design
Stationary Engineering
Sheet metal

I think you only need 30 credits to get the certificate, each class is worth 4 credits, but I went for my associates degree which required 65
Do they got good job placement?

[mattm]

Otto's back to the basics course. He holds in in his basement on nights he aint out drag racing his Z-24 clone.