The Full Build. Tools in every hand.
From reading a tape measure to standing up a wall they framed themselves. No experience assumed.
Your people learn from someone who's done every job on the list. Almost 30 years in the trades. Ontario Certificate of Qualification (Floor Covering Installer), HRAI Indoor Air Quality, 15 to 20 insurance rebuilds, general contracting since 2012. Two Ontario-funded cohorts delivered for ACCES Employment.
I've delivered this course twice for ACCES Employment in the GTA, 15 to 17 people each time, funded by the Government of Ontario. For ACCES it ran as four days with the same group: two classroom days, then these two hands-on days. Day 1 is safety, plans and tools. Day 2 is six trade stations: electrical, plumbing, drywall, windows and siding, insulation, and framing.
What's proven. What's new.
- Delivered: the 2-day hands-on course, twice for ACCES Employment, 15 to 17 participants each, after two classroom days with the same group. Ontario-funded. Developed with Modulink, the modular construction company where I'm Head of Construction.
- In production: a 14-part online video series for ACCES, with quizzes and certificates.
- New, booking founding programs: Building Across Borders, six sessions for experienced newcomers. Same content and the same hands-on days, built out further.
Who are your people?
The Full Build
Career-changers and people who've never held a drill. Every trade that touches a house, 2 to 5 days. The proven one.
From $12,000 → Experienced newcomersBuilding Across Borders
Years of construction back home. Six sessions to turn it into Canadian trade titles, a work history document and a certification plan.
From $7,500 → Inside a program you already runA guest module
One module dropped into your program. Classroom $2,000, hands-on $2,500 with tools and materials for up to 20.
Price it →Want a longer program aimed at modular factory jobs? Factory to Foundation, 8 to 10 weeks, built to order.
Pre-apprenticeship, SDF, bridge training.
The Full Build slots in as the hands-on block of a longer funded program, 2 to 5 days: 12 hours of instruction, tools in every hand, run at your site. You run the intake, the classroom weeks and the placement. I bring the trades.
- Budget line: one all-in amount before HST, priced per group: $12,000 for 12 people (about $1,000 each), $16,000 for 20 (about $800 each). Each extra day +$2,500. Tools, PPE, materials, insured tradespeople and travel in Ontario are inside it.
- Contact hours: 12 over two days, up to 30 over five. Add classroom modules from the library (3 to 4 hours each) to build more hours.
- Paperwork: budget sheet, HST number, $3M liability (your organization named as additional insured), WSIB clearances for every tradesperson on the floor, vulnerable sector checks for youth programs.
- Reporting: attendance, station check-offs and completion for every participant, and my 45- and 90-day check-ins with every graduate. Your program runs the 6 and 12-month follow-up; I'll hand you everything I have.
- Safety tickets: WHMIS and Working at Heights come from approved providers, mostly online. Book them directly, the way ACCES did. I'll point you to good ones.
- Placements: you line up the paid placements. I'll help: introductions to the builders and trades I work with, and support for your participants once they're on site.
- Letter of support: on a deadline? I'll send a signed letter naming the delivery, dates and budget line within 48 hours.
Halifax to Vancouver.
Live from my studio: any classroom session, taught on your screen. No travel, ever. From $1,500 a session.
In person: one flat travel fee per trip. +$1,800 in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, +$2,500 in the Prairies and BC. The North at cost.
Your province's rules: I teach your OHS Act and your workers' comp board (WCB Nova Scotia, WorkSafeBC and so on). The hazards are the same everywhere.
Tax: charged at your province's rate, by your billing address. 14% in Nova Scotia, 15% in NB, NL and PEI, 5% GST in the West.
Training is half of it. Getting hired is the point.
- Resume and LinkedIn review. End of Day 2, I sit down with every participant and go through their resume and LinkedIn. They leave with both ready to send.
- A real interview. Everyone who passes the check-off can ask for a real interview with one of the companies I work with: Modulink, Small Living Co., AIM Project Management, or one of the subcontractors I use on a regular basis, whoever's hiring. An interview, not a promise of a job, but a real one.
- Referrals. I personally refer my top people from every cohort to the subcontractors and builders I work with.
- 45- and 90-day check-ins. At 45 and 90 days I check in with every graduate: working, in construction, in training? You get the numbers for your funder report.
Don't take my word for it.
"Aaron brought a practical and engaging approach to our construction training at ACCES Employment. He did a great job breaking down tools, safety practices, and construction techniques in a way that was accessible to participants with different levels of experience."
"I just wanted to register my profound appreciation once again for your incredible training on Modular Housing and particularly on LinkedIn. You are such an amazing instructor with a golden heart."
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