Professional Women in Construction Leads Tour of Kemper System America
WEST SENECA, N.Y.— On Wednesday, May 22, Professional Women in Construction (PWC) in conjunction with Kemper System America led a group of teenage girls and a teacher flown in from the Bronx Design & Construction Academy (BDCA), a high school located in the South Bronx, on a tour of the company’s production facility in West Seneca, N.Y. The tour is part of PWC’s new Mentorship program that introduces young women to career opportunities in the nontraditional fields of construction, design and related industries.
Since PWC President Lenore Janis and a committee launched the Mentorship program in the fall of 2012, the organization has taken groups of girls to a variety of job sites in New York City and introduced them to executive women and entrepreneurs working in the field. On the tour, they applied a test of the company’s “odor-free” Kemperol®2K PUR (two-part polyurethane) liquid-resin waterproofing membrane system.