Construction, Signature Website

Eastern Atlantic States
Carpenters Technical Centers

The Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters Technical Centers (EASCTC) delivers high-quality technical training, arming its members with the skills to be competitive in today’s construction market. The EASCTC was formed after combining seven regionally-adjacent training centers under the same brand. The organization needed a new website to support the new organization structure and share program details with members.

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The Key Facts About This Construction Website

Merging the content of seven training centers into the EASCTC required a thoughtful approach. Partnering with inConcert Web Solutions, the new site’s information architecture content tells the story of the combined brand. It also has seven microsites, giving each center a place to tell its unique story. A robust class management portal is easy for students and administrators to use. Students can easily search for classes and register, while admins can manage class information and rosters.

Individual
Microsites

Using a sophisticated multi-location approach, the seven training centers that combined to form EASCTC each received a microsite connected to the main site. inConcert Web worked with each location to ensure their microsite accurately represented the individual center, highlighting unique information about the campus, available classes, and unique calls to action.

Robust Class Management

Since offering training is the core of EASCTC, the new site needed to offer an easy-to-use class management portal. The portal allows administrators to easily add and edit class details, send email notifications to registrants, and share interactive maps and directions to help students find class locations. The portal automatically shares available classes to the public-facing site through a dynamic feed.

Intuitive Student
Portal

Students can easily search for classes by program or location. Each class page shares important information, including training dates, remaining open seats, contact information, equipment required, attendance requirements, and more. After the student selects a class they want to register for, they can log in and register securely. If classes are full, students can request to be added to a waitlist and notified if a seat opens up.

EASCTC: Supporting Tomorrow’s Construction Industry with a Powerful Website

The Challenge and Solution of EASCTC

The Challenge

Combining Seven Locations
into One Site

As a newly formed brand structure, EASCTC needed a single public-facing website to share how the organization is still committed to delivering technical training for the construction industry within it’s seven campus locations. However, the organization wanted each campus to have their own online presence, sharing the unique classes and information available at each location. In addition, the EASCTC needed to provide students with an intuitive way to register for classes while providing administrators a way to manage class information, alerts, rosters, and waitlists.

The Solution

Powerful Class Management

As EASCTC’s web partner, inConcert Web Solutions developed a new site architecture that created a hub for the main organization while giving each of the seven campuses a microsite to share location-specific information. The attractive, user-friendly site helps guide students to apply for membership or to sign up for trainings. A completely custom class management portal, developed by inConcert and used by other Carpenter’s Training Fund chapters as well, meets the needs of both students and administrators, making class management easier than ever. Other site features include a blog, providing EASCTC a place to share news and stories, as well as an alert bar to post time-sensitive information.