Building Construction Articles

A pair of teams comprising students from construction-related programs at Pennsylvania College of Technology admirably met the challenge of competition at the recent National Association of Home Builders International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Florida.

"Working Class" "Working Class: Build and Grow Green," the second episode of a Telly Award-winning series co-produced by Penn College, will be rebroadcast at 7 p.m. Thursday on WVIA.

Building construction technology major Michael J. Deragon, of Fort Washington, helps Joey Boler Santoyo with a keepsake toolbox. The boy is the grandson of Stanley G. Boler, who retired in 2012 from the electronics and computer engineering technology faculty; his mother, Amanda, is a 1998 graduate in legal assistant-paralegal.

Jim Ellwood meets with students in one of Rob A. Wozniak's Codes, Specifications and Estimating classes. Students in Penn College's School of Construction & Design Technologies recently had the opportunity to meet Jim Ellwood, educational liaison for the International Codes Council, who visited Building Code-based classes taught by Rob A. Wozniak and Harry W. Hintz Jr.

Reber's class fills the forms for one of 18 upright pillars that will hold plaques of recognition. An earlier pour shows the configuration of wedges atop a geometric pad. The Campus Center roof provides a perfect "big picture" vantage point. Another set of vertical walls for Penn College’s Recognition Garden was erected this week by Franklin H.

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.