Wo-Built Inc: Clients' Advocate for making their Dream Home happen: We Were Mentioned in the Star

Thursday 1 May 2008

We Were Mentioned in the Star

Martina Ernst and Elida Huignard at the Pre-Apprenticeship Training Institute, founded Wo-Built Inc.

Martina Ernst and Elida Huignard at the Pre-Apprenticeship Training Institute, founded Wo-Built.
Photo by Jim Ross, The Toronto Star

We were mentioned in the Toronto Star on April 19th, 2008 Building on women's skills.
Article by Donna Laporte, REAL ESTATE Reporter, The Toronto Star, Condo section.

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
Building on women's skills
Etobicoke contracting firm
encourages more to consider give
their careers a finishing touch

Women, if you're good with your hands, detail-oriented, like watching renovation shows and don't mind getting a bit dirty, then maybe a career in the finishing trades is for you.

Painting, drywalling, carpentry and cabinetmaking are part of the vast array of skilled trades that don't often register on women's radar.

Two female architects are out to change that.

More than a year ago, Martina Ernst and Elida Huignard co-founded Wo-Built, a general contracting firm based in Etobicoke, to encourage women to enter the building trades by hiring and mentoring them in their renovation business.

There is no shortage of work for women who are already trained. But there's room for many more.

If you want to read the whole article, please click on the link below.
http://www.thestar.com/article/414967

link:
TheStar.com - News & Features - Building on women's skills

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