First-year students learn basic terminology, estimating of materials, laying out buildings with a transit, and using framing techniques during their first quarter in the fall. This knowledge becomes very valuable the following spring quarter as students leave campus to lay out and build a two-car garage from start to finish. The project includes forming and pouring the foundation, all aspects of framing, composition roofing, doors, windows, and vinyl soffit and siding.
Students gain valuable hands-on experience and benefit future students at the same time.
Our department has been purchasing new and replacing old equipment with these funds. With no cost to the taxpayer, everybody wins. This truly becomes a districtwide effort with involvement from numerous programs. The blueprints for the house are drawn by SCC's architectural students and the heating and cooling system is designed and installed by the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning students. The sheet metal students manufacture the ductwork for that system.