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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
2 YEARS
CONSTRUCTION
TECHNOLOGY
At Fort Hays Tech | Northwest
Construction Technology is a broad
program where you combine various
disciplines with work-based experience.
As a Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Tiger
you ultimately build an entire house with
your own two hands, becoming familiar
with all phases of residential carpentry
from the foundation to the roof.
In only two years at Fort Hays Tech |
Northwest, you will have the necessary
job skills and related technical
information required in the construction
and cabinet-making trades. Upon
completion of the program, you
will enter the trade with a thorough
and versatile understanding of the
profession, as well as the opportunity
to obtain a contractor’s license and/
or advance to the level of master or
journeyman tradesman.
The Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Construction
Technology program is in alignment with
the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) CIP code 46.0201: Carpentry/
Carpenter. A program that prepares
individuals to apply technical knowledge
and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect,
install, and repair wooden structures and
fixtures, using hand and power tools. Includes
instruction in technical mathematics,
framing, construction materials and
selection, job estimating, blueprint reading,
foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry
techniques, and applicable codes and
standards.
Stackable credentials and industry
certification opportunities available.
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OPPORTUNITY TO
WORK ON
PASSIVE HOMES
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