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The next IGSHPA Drillers Training Course PLUS*

by Todd Giddings, Ph.D., P.G.,

will be held on February 22, 23, and 24, 2010

at the manufacturing plant of Schramm, Inc. in West Chester, PA.

Also consider staying for another day-and-a-half for:

Schramm's Water Well & Geothermal Drill Rig Operation &

 Maintenance Service Seminar onFebruary 25 and 26, 2010.


* Why the “PLUS” in the course title?  Todd's Drillers Training Course PLUS contains 6 additional hours of training beyond the IGSHPA course content.  The bonus lessons include the following topics:  How and where to do your first geo job, How to use PDC and ballistic-button bits to increase your loop-hole drilling rate, How to install loops into problem boreholes, Why you should go after retrofit geo jobs, The role of open-loop systems in the geo marketplace, What are all of the differences between a water well and a geothermal borehole, A retrofit case-history example including how to optimize the hot-water benefits from a desuperheater , Innovative marketing methods for geothermal systems, including understanding the new Federal geothermal tax credits.  To see a pie chart of the organization of Todd's Drillers Training Course PLUS content click this link


The Schramm Water Well & Geothermal Drill Rig Operation & Maintenance Service Seminar will teach you how to operate, troubleshoot, and maintain drill rig engines, hydraulic systems, air compressors, mud systems, PTO drives, and accessories that will increase your geothermal drilling rate.  This seminar will present what's new in geothermal production drilling technology and energy saving options.  The Schramm i-control intelligent drilling control system will be explained.  For a schedule for the Schramm Service Seminar, click this link.  For the Schramm Service Seminar Registration form, click this link.  NOTE that there is NO additional registration fee for the day-and-a-half Schramm Service Seminar.


Three ways to grow your drilling

business during this recession:

1.   Understand what the geothermal industry is and why it’s important to your company.

2.   Have a clear picture of where the geothermal opportunities are for your company.

3.   Have a better understanding of how to enter or grow in the geothermal industry, get geothermal jobs, and make money drilling geothermal boreholes.

So how do you get to really understand the geothermal industry and learn about the opportunities, jobs, and how to make money drilling geothermal boreholes???

 Text Box: Take this IGSHPA Drillers Training Course PLUS* 

 

 

Todd has designed this PLUS* course to give you:

  • a complete understanding of the geothermal industry so you will know why it is important to the growth of your company.

  • the geothermal opportunities and where they are so you will know how to enter or grow in the geothermal industry. 

  • innovative geothermal marketing methods to find and get the jobs.

  • two ways to increase your geothermal borehole drilling rate to make more money. 

The course instructor is Todd Giddings, Ph.D., P.G.  Todd is an IGSHPA Accredited Trainer, an IGSHPA Accredited Vertical Loop Installer, and an IGSHPA Accredited Geothermal Installer.  He has prepared the bonus lessons in the PLUS part of his course by using job-site photographs to show how the principles and procedures in the course are applied in the real world on actual geo jobs.  Actual job-site examples will be presented to show how his students have made more money using the new drilling methods he presented to them.

 The registration fee for Todd’s IGSHPA Drillers Training Course PLUS is $995.  To go to the registration form, click this link.  If you want to attend this course, mail in your registration form with your check for $995 soon, because this course has filled quickly when it was offered previously.  When this course was offered in January, 2009, more than 25 people wanted to register after the course was full.  When this course was offered in June, 2009, more than 20 people had to wait for the next time.  Print and fill out the registration form at this link, and then mail it to: 

Todd Giddings and Associates, Inc.

3049 Enterprise Drive

State College, PA 16801

 

with your check for $995 also made payable to Todd Giddings and Associates, Inc.  Remember, this course filled very quickly previously, so do not delay in sending in your registration if you really want to attend this November 16, 17, and 18, 2009 Drillers Training Course PLUS. 

The Drillers Training Course PLUS Location:  Todd's next Drillers Training Course PLUS will be held at the drill rig manufacturing plant of Schramm, Inc. located at 800 E. Virginia Avenue, in West Chester, PA 19380.   There is a block of sleeping rooms available at the Inn at Chester Springs hotel at the discounted rate of $99.00 per night and the cutoff date for these discounted sleeping rooms is November 2.  The hotel phone number is 610-363-1100 for sleeping room reservations.  Driving directions and a map of the hotel location are at this link.  A shuttle bus will operate each day between the hotel and the Schramm, Inc. plant building.

Who should attend?  Water-well drilling contractors, drilling company owners, drilling company project managers, drilling company administrators, loop-field design engineers, hydrogeologists, environmental engineers, suppliers to the geothermal industry, and anyone else with a professional interest in geothermal heat pump systems, vertical geothermal heat exchanger design and installation, loop field production drilling techniques, and geothermal loop installation procedures.  This course is not just for well drillers!

Don’t miss out!  By taking this IGSHPA Drillers Training Course PLUS and passing the open-book exam, you will become an IGSHPA Accredited Vertical Loop Installer.  This accreditation will distinguish you from your competition and help you to grow your business in the geothermal heat pump industry.

This course in not just for well drillers!  Even if you are already doing geothermal work, becoming an IGSHPA Accredited Vertical Loop Installer by taking this course and passing the exam will make you stand out from your competition and thereby help your business grow.  This course in designed for drillers who are currently doing geo work and is designed for drillers who have not done their first geo job.  If you are an environmental consultant, you will benefit from this course by learning how to grow your consulting business into geo.  Suppliers have also taken this course to learn how to grow their geo supply businesses.

Why attend?  This Drillers Training Course is designed to help water-well drillers grow their water-well drilling business into GeoExchange borehole and loop field production drilling. The GeoExchange industry has seen an abundance of growth in recent years, and there is new a “perfect storm” brewing in the well-drilling industry.  To learn about this "perfect storm" in the water-well drilling industry, click this link.


The students in this November, 2009 Drillers Training Course PLUS* class picture are standing in front of a Schramm geothermal drill rig model T450GT.

 

 


 

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