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TRAINING CENTER
The path to your new career starts here
UA Local 525 offers two tracks for apprenticeship training: Building Trades (which focuses on plumbing and pipefitting) and HVACR Service. Both are five-year programs that require rigorous technical and safety training on the jobsite, along with engaging classroom-related instruction. The result? The most qualified, highly skilled workforce in Southern Nevada.
The glittering casinos, luxury hotels and dynamic attractions of the Las Vegas Strip are prime locations for UA Local 525 members to showcase the diversity of our two programs. Our tradespeople make sure Las Vegas buildings have clean drinking water and sanitary waste drainage. They’re involved in the complex piping systems of the hospitality industry. And they’re pros at improving energy efficiency of and making sure HVAC systems function properly in our desert heat.
Joining the skilled trades offers an essential, risk-proof career with plenty of opportunities for advancement. Increasingly, skilled tradesmen and women are becoming inspectors, supervisors, researchers, engineers, business owners and more. At UA Local 525, you make your own luck.
Plumbers & Pipefitters
At Local 525, plumbing and pipefitting apprentices are part of our Building Trades Apprenticeship Program, receiving a minimum of 8,500 on-the-job hours and 1,230 hours of classroom-related instruction.
HVAC Service
We stay at the forefront of today’s cutting edge technologies so we’re always teaching what’s being used in the field. HVAC Service Apprenticeship Program apprentices receive a minimum of 8,500 on-the-job hours and 1,230 hours of classroom-related instruction.
Allegiant Stadium
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Opened in 2020, Allegiant Stadium is the home field of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders. The facility features 65,000 seats, a retractable natural turf field, a translucent roof and walls that open to spectacular views of the Strip. To complete the $1.97 billion project, nearly 1,100 local apprentices were utilized in the completion of this $1.97 billion project, giving them valuable on-the-job learning opportunities.
Brightline West
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Brightline West will be America’s first true high-speed passenger rail system. The modern, eco-friendly system will redefine train travel in America and connect two of our country’s most iconic destinations: Las Vegas and Southern California. Construction is expected to take about four years with service beginning in 2028.
Sphere at The Venetian
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One of the most talked-about venues in the world, Sphere at The Venetian is the next generation of Las Vegas entertainment. This revolutionary, fully immersive cinematic, musical and entertainment experience was created by combining centuries-old mathematical formulas with 22nd century engineering and technology.
FONTAINEBLEAU
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At 68 stories, Fontainebleau Las Vegas is the second-tallest structure in Nevada, just under the Stratosphere observation tower. This ultra-luxurious, $3.7 Billion resort stretches across 25 acres of the North Vegas Strip, with 3,780 rooms, a 150,000 square-foot casino, 90,000 square-foot of luxury retail space, a high-tech nightclub and more inside.
RESORTS WORLD
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When it opened to the public in June 2021, Resorts World became the first completely new casino resort built on the Vegas Strip in more than a decade. The 90-acre, $4.3 Billion Resorts World complex offers some 3,500 luxury hotel rooms by Hilton, Crockfords and Conrad, a 104,000-square-foot casino floor, several cutting-edge entertainment venues and so much more.
TRAINING CENTER
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At Local 525, we’re proud to be at the forefront of training excellence — and have been for more than a century. Our state-of-the-art training center, which was rebuilt and opened in 2020.
