Last fall, Mr. Pelzer enrolled in a federally financed training course to become a certified building technician, following the guidance of a caseworker at a city-run work force center.
Jean says that his "interest in bins" started in 1995, a long time before he quit his job as a building technician in 2002.
Jean says that his "interest in trash bins" started in 1995, a long time before he quit his job as a building technician in 2002.
In a building still under construction, technicians wearing hair nets hunch over machines.
Subcontractors scattered around the world will probably do most of the manufacturing work, and the new airliner's American "factory" will turn out to be not much more than a building where technicians bolt together ten or 11 large pieces and hook up some wires.Airbus works that way at its A330/340 plant in Toulouse, France.
Friendly's get-it-done quality was much in evidence when, last spring, he flew down to Huntsville, Alabama, in the process of making a "C.B.S. Reports" documentary entitled "Why Man in Space?" There, at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, he ordered his camera crew into a building where technicians were assembling a Saturn rocket booster.
A three-dimensional map of all downtown buildings allows technicians to simulate bomb blasts and debris projections.
Home energy (remote) control systems help consumers save energy when they aren't home; daily information in high consuming buildings helps technicians find or anticipate energy saving options.
Inside the building, carpenters and technicians are putting the finishing touches to the offices.
Two miles south, in the basement of the Federal Court Building downtown, F.B.I. technicians were analyzing the explosives found on the beach.
In a government building in Jerusalem, technicians in civilian clothes sit in front of a bank of screens, trying to deflect millions of attempted attacks on Israel's government websites.
