{"id":131440,"date":"2021-11-05T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/?p=131440"},"modified":"2021-11-05T08:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:17:45","slug":"fgia-team-expands-with-new-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/fgia-team-expands-with-new-member\/","title":{"rendered":"FGIA team expands with new member"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131441\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BC_FGIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-131441 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BC_FGIA-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BC_FGIA-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BC_FGIA-365x500.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BC_FGIA.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Aaron Blom has joined the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) association as the technical training specialist.<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Photo courtesy FGIA<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aaron Blom has joined the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) association as the technical training specialist. Blom will be responsible for conducting and developing FGIA&#8217;s professional education and technical training programs.<\/p>\n<p>Before accepting this position, Blom most recently served as director of preconstruction for Architectural Preconstruction, LLC. He is well-versed in the commercial industry, having previously served as a southwest sales representative for major projects, and earlier as an outside sales representative for FGIA member, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope. Aaron began his position with FGIA on October 25 and will work remotely from his base in Colorado, while traveling to in-person FGIA training sessions and events throughout the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaron&#8217;s strengths as an industrial engineer, a skilled trainer, versatile communicator and a commercial industry sales representative will serve him well and directly align with the needs for this important new position,&#8221; said Kathy Krafka Harkema, FGIA&#8217;s U.S. technical operations director. &#8220;Due to the continued growth of our education initiatives, we look forward to training and inspiring even more people thanks to Aaron&#8217;s enthusiastic, dedicated training expertise and outreach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Blom has joined the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) association as the technical training specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27272,"featured_media":131441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[1479,3665,5459,6810,6750],"class_list":["post-131440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-architecture","tag-events","tag-fgia","tag-programs","tag-technical","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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