Shelter Institute offers a wide variety of courses ranging in length and hands-on opportunity. In our classes we take apart the building process and teach each step individually.
Students walk away from the course with all the design tools necessary to build a house.
We offer three different housebuilding courses to serve your needs. Our students range in age from fourteen to eighty. Some of them are contractors, architects, and engineers while others have never picked up a hammer. It receives four college credits, real estate, and appraisal recertification credits. Our three week class offers the most well rounded experience with lectures on weekday mornings, workshops in the afternoons and house sites on the weekends.