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The primary focus of the union is to assist its members in securing employment, defending their rights, and advancing their interests as working men and women, and by education and cooperation, raise them to that position in society to which they are justly entitled.
WORK IS INSTALLED BY OUR PROFESSIONAL MECHANICAL INSULATORS THAT HAVE ACHIEVED JOURNEYMAN STATUS IN THE UNION THROUGH A MULTI-YEAR CLASSROOM AND 1,600-HOUR PER YEAR ON-THE-JOB TRAINING PROGRAM ALONGSIDE THOSE WHO ARE LEARNING THE TRADE.
Today’s union insulator is skilled in the installation of mechanical insulation, fire stopping, asbestos and lead mitigation or abatement, sound attenuation, and specialty fabrications required in custom mechanical insulation installations for commercial, industrial, medical, bio-technical, governmental, and educational facilities among other customer types. This work is installed by our professional mechanical insulators that have achieved journeyman status in the union through a multi-year classroom and 1,600 hours per year on-the-job training program second to none in North America.
The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers has persevered since 1903, a testament to our founders’ commitment to the dignity, skills, and well-being of our membership. For more than 115 years our union has endured, through good times and bad, in peacetime and at war, through economic depression and prosperity, in favor and out of favor with governments and politicians. Through it all we not only have survived; we have flourished.
Commercial buildings and hospitals depend heavily on fire stop. Fire stop helps prevent the passage of fire and smoke through rated barriers. Fire stop is a great way to protect property and human life. In restaurants you have grease in exhaust ducts which can be a major fire hazard. Insulation is used on ducts to contain fire within the duct.
With fire codes forever changing it is important to constantly upkeep Fire Stop to ensure compliance.
Energy audits are a way to see where insulation is not performing like it is designed to. This can be due to lack of insulation, damage to insulation, and/or poor application methods. Thermal imaging cameras are used as a visual tool to show thermal variances with accurate temperature analysis. Using the images along with calculations approved by the DOE we can show savings in dollars and CO2 emissions. The second you insulate you save and we can prove it!
