Construction Technology - Carpentry Emphasis
The goal of the program is to prepare students eventually to become leaders at many levels in the construction field.
Associate in Specialized Technology Degree
Through lectures, demonstrations, shop exercises, and campus work projects, students are prepared for employment in the residential-commercial carpentry construction industry. The goal of the program is to prepare students eventually to become leaders at many levels in the construction field: journeyman carpenter, job site foreman, construction superintendent, project manager, front office administrator, or owner of a contracting firm.
The program provides thorough instruction and training in house and small commercial building construction through lecture and shop demonstrations, including topics such as job safety, manual tools, hand and stationary power tools, scaffolding, rough framing, roof framing, insulation, stairs, interior and exterior finishes and trim, flooring, and cabinetmaking. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the layout of difficult framing applications, including equally sloped hip roofs and stair construction. Other topics include reading of blueprints and specifications, cost estimating, site layout and development, scheduling, construction quality control, material purchasing, small business management, and accident prevention. The program also covers the processes and procedures necessary for carrying out construction projects from start to finish, including complying with building permit requirements and mandatory site tests. Students in this program also take courses in the technical, business, logistical, and management aspects of the construction industry to prepare them to advance into supervisory or administrative positions or to run their own businesses.
The ability of students to apply theory to hand skills is monitored through shop projects requiring skill levels of increasing difficulty and through serving the college on supervised building maintenance, renovation, and new construction assignments.
Introduction to the Program
“The program provides thorough instruction and training in house and small commercial building construction through lecture and shop demonstrations, including topics such as job safety, manual tools, hand and stationary power tools, scaffolding, rough framing, roof framing, insulation, stairs, interior and exterior finishes and trim, flooring, and cabinetmaking.”
Mike Neville, Director of Carpentry
Employment Information
Potential Carpentry Jobs
- Apprentice Carpenter
- Assistant Carpenter
- Assistant Construction Manager
- Assistant Field Engineer
- Assistant Project Manager
- Assistant Site Manager
- Assistant Superintendent
- Carpenter
- Field Engineer
- Field Manager
- Finish Carpenter
- Installer
- Maintenance Assistant
- Production Carpenter
- Production Supervisor
- Project Manager
- Self-Employed Carpentry Contractor
- Senior Crew Leader
- Service Technician
- Superintendent
Who Has Hired Our Graduates?
- ARCO Design/Build Industrial
- ASK Contracting
- Baer Construction
- Bancroft Construction Co.
- Benner and White Construction
- BPGS Construction
- Canino Construction
- Carpenters Local 255
- Cavan Construction Company
- CBG Building Company
- Ceilings, Inc.
- CentiMark Corporation
- Cherokee Construction
- Concept Carpentry
- Corbett inc.
- Dale Corporation
- DEW Construction
- EDA Contractors
- EDiS Company
- Harkins
- Hellings Builders
- Hensel Phelps
- Highline Partners
- HSC Builders and Construction Managers
- IMC Construction
- Jacobs Engineering Group
- J.A. Wilwert Custom Carpentry
- Joe Hopkins Inc.
- Joseph Jingoli & Son, Inc
- Kevin J. Carpentry
- Kurtz Construction Company
- Lakash Constructors
- Leonard S. Fiore, Inc.
- Lennar Homes
- LF Driscoll Company
- Lombardozzi Construction
- The Master's Craftsman, Inc.
- McGonigle & Co. Building Contractors
- McHugh Construction
- Miller Flooring
- Neerland Building & Remodeling
- North American Window & Door
- NVHomes
- Oakglade Realty Capital Partners
- P. Agnes, Inc
- Paul Restall Co., Inc.
- Philadelphia Cricket Club
- Philadelphia Roof Management
- Pulte Homes
- Rinker and Brown Custom Carpentry
- Robert Ranson Construction & Fine Carpentry
- Skanska AB
- Thomas P. Carney
- Toll Brothers
- Treetop Builders, Inc.
- Tri-Vet Contracting
- University City Housing
- Vector Construction
- W.B. Homes
- W.S. Cumby Construction
- Warfel Construction
- Webb Building Group
- Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
- Wiltshire Custom Carpentry
- Wohlsen Construction
- Zebby Sulecki, Inc.