Building Construction Articles

Gwendolyn M. Wagner, of Cressona, a building construction technology: masonry emphasis student, concentrates on the task at hand. Penn College at work! The job site: a venerable landmark in Williamsport's East End A brief pause in action to oblige a passing photographer Nicholas E. Mills, of Tyrone, signals his workplace satisfaction.

“When you're in high school, and you're thinking about a career, you could think about what's just going to make you a lot of money, or you could think about something that you're going to be happy doing for the rest of your life.” This advice, from a Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate working at one of the world’s great gardens, is offered in “Working Class: Build & Grow Green,” an hourl

As concrete flows down the chute into reinforced forms constructed last week, students scramble into action in this view from the Campus Center roof. Franklin H. Reber adds to his Concrete Construction students' hands-on instruction through a keen eye sharpened by years of field experience.

Students abide a blistering hot Wednesday to get the job done. Students in instructor Franklin H. Reber's Concrete Construction lab have built the reinforced forms for the first of three hexagonal pads that will be the basis for Penn College’s Recognition Garden outside the Bush Campus Center.

Plotting and prepping the site on Thursday morning are Michael L. Bremigen (left), horticulture technician, and Chad L. Karstetter, horticulturist/motorpool lead person. Work has begun on Penn College's Recognition Garden on the west side of the Bush Campus Center, a cooperative project involving General Services employees and three groups of students taught by Franklin H.

Student builders acknowledged A ribbon rests atop a pillar constructed by Penn College masonry students. (Photo by Carol A. Lugg, assistant dean of construction and design technologies) Penn College's involvement in construction of the Lycoming County Sensory Garden is noted in a Newswatch 16 piece previewing this weekend's ribbon-cutting at the Fairfield Township facility.

A Pennsylvania-based, nationally recognized masonry subcontracting business that regularly recruits graduates of Pennsylvania College of Technology has established an annual scholarship at the institution.

Words to live by A closeup of students' craft A handcrafted addition to a hallway in Penn College's School of Construction & Design Technologies – espousing "honesty," "integrity" and "respect" – shows off students' skills while offering bywords for the campus community. From a seed planted with faculty last fall by Marc E.

Seventeen first-place winners from Pennsylvania College of Technology have advanced to the 52nd annual National SkillsUSA Conference, to be held from June 20-24 in Louisville, Kentucky. Three other students finished in the top four places in their respective categories during the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania Leadership and Skills Conference held earlier this month in Hershey.

Adorned with their alma mater, Penn Staters work to beat the clock. From Happy Valley to serious business, coaching a teammate to an ultimate second-place design. Surveying the landscape, ready to offer assistance as the mortar flies, are (from left) building construction technology: masonry emphasis majors Gwendolyn M. Wagner, of Cressona, and Nicholas E.