Craft Skills of IMI Personnel to Be Featured on PBS

JOURNAL: ISSUE 4 - 2013

IMI recently renewed a longstanding relationship with the Brunelleschi Dome in Florence, Italy, when National Geographic and Camera One Productions came calling for IMI expertise. IMI National Director of Industry Development David Sovinski had worked with architect Massimo Ricci and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design to produce a CD-ROM on Ricci's theory of how the Dome was constructed in 2000. 

National Geographic's program, "Secrets of the Duomo", will be aired on PBS on January 29th and will feature the skills of IMI personnel who worked on a smaller scale version of the Dome in a park in Florence to demonstrate how the Dome may have been constructed. IMI National Director of Apprenticeship and Training Robert Arnold, IMI North Central Regional Director Dave Wysocki, Apprentice Coordinators Don Hunt of Local 15 Missouri/Kansas and Tom Ward of Local 2 Michigan, and National Job Corps Director Jonas Elmore all traveled to Florence to work on the project with all expenses being paid by Camera One Productions.