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In addition to serving as a full-time instructor at the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters Carpenter Training Center (CTC), Pete Dinschel holds numerous professional distinctions and is active in many trade associations that serve the locksmith industry. Along with colleague Art Urbano, he handles all CTC architectural hardware, mechanical keying, and electronic access control.
Following are the Ledger’s questions and Dinschel’s answers.
What is your background?
I’m a 33-year union carpenter with an early career building houses, moving to installing cabinets/trim in houses, later to commercial cabinets/trim, which just included installing more and more hardware in various quantities, types, and manufacturers.
Prior to carpentry, I obtained an architectural degree and for seven years worked for two well-respected architecture firms. For 14 years, while working daily as a union carpenter, I taught architectural classes at a local junior college in the evenings.
I’m a long-time member of CSI (the Construction Specifications Institute), DHI (the Door and Hardware Institute), NFPA (the National Fire Protection Association), AWI (the Architectural Woodwork Institute), and ICC (the International Code Council).
What is your job now?
For the last 17 years, I have been a full-time instructor at the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters, Carpenter Training Center (CTC). The CTC serves 35,000 union carpenters with apprentice training and approximately 300 skill advancement courses, growing to over 500,000 square feet in six buildings spread throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
