The College of Carpenters and Allied Trades Inc. (CCAT) is a jointly trusted union-employer construction skills school that was established to serve the recruitment and educational needs of Carpenters Local 27 members and their employers.
Since its inception in 1986, CCAT has offered an extensive variety of carpentry trades-related pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, health and safety, and continuing education courses to thousands of students.
The Board of Directors governing the CCAT is comprised of labour representatives from the Carpenters’ Local 27 Union and employer representatives from the General Contractors’ Section Toronto.
Two separate joint employer/labour committees, the Carpenters Joint Local Apprenticeship Committee and the Floor Covering Installer Joint Local Apprenticeship Committee, oversee all activities related to the carpentry and floor covering apprenticeship programs offered by CCAT. The carpenters’ apprenticeship system in Ontario’s unionized construction sector is a model of employer/labour cooperation that is essential for the industry’s future competitiveness and productivity.
CCAT’s two state-of-the-art facilities in Woodbridge total approximately 113,000 square feet of “hands-on” shop and classroom areas that have been customized in accordance with the theoretical and practical requirements of the educational programs.
In addition to its fully site-simulated carpentry shops, CCAT is equipped with 13 electronic classrooms; 2 computer laboratories; a wood working machine shop, a welding shop, a floor covering installer shop and an ICRA Best Practices in Healthcare Construction laboratory.
CCAT offers a pre-apprenticeship program in Formwork Carpentry designed to equip new entrants into General Carpentry Apprenticeship with market ready employment skills upon completion of the seven-week course.
General Carpenter Apprenticeship
CCAT is the largest Training Delivery Agency of General Carpentry Apprenticeship – on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development (MLTSD) – in the province of Ontario, with well over 2,000 Carpentry Apprentices signed to it’s Local Apprenticeship Committee and providing all three levels of in-school training (Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced) to over 450 carpenter apprentices a year.
Floor Covering Installer Apprenticeship
CCAT is also the largest Training Delivery Agency for Floor Covering Apprenticeship in the province, offering both levels of in-school training (Basic and Advanced) to Floor Covering Apprentices province-wide.
Health & Safety and Continuing Education Courses
Between 4,500 and 5,000 Union Members per year take advantage of the below listed health & safety and continuing education courses at CCAT. These courses are offered free charge to members in good standing of Carpenters’ Local Union 27 and take place on an evening and weekend basis.