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152 APPENDIX I – KEY FINDINGS FROM CONSULTANT INTERVIEWS This section documents the perspectives of third-party consultant firms that provide inspection services for transportation infrastructure projects regarding the training and certification, career development, lessons learned, and future challenges for construction inspectors. An interview protocol specifically focused at the consultant firms was developed based on literature review, data from consultant survey questionnaire responses and internal discussions with the project team.
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153 2. Perform interviews with consultant firm key leadership staff to identify the construction inspector training, certification and development related components that are working well and that are needed to be improved.
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154 interests rather than STAs needs, as these inspectors then would be able to work across state, city and county transportation agencies based on their passion rather than the need of STAs. Training the inspection workforce for their future will indeed result in creating high quality inspectors for all transportation projects.
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155 Consultants have two perspectives on recertification. Some consultants suggested elimination of recertification because inspectors who are certified and have been doing this for a long time typically have no issues passing a recertification exam, but it takes time and resources to recertify experienced inspectors.
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156 emerged recently, whereas the new certification focuses on all required training aspects from scratch," opined a participant indicating the importance of avoiding double teaching the inspectors seeking recertification. This will result in effective use of training resources as availability of training classes for new inspectors can be increased.
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157 Training inspectors for new technologies Consultants provide training to inspectors on the use of inspection technologies. If STAs initiate the use of new software applications (AASHTOware, internal STA systems)
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158 construction they're (inspectors) interested in, train and provide certifications in that.
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