Construction & Architecture Articles

A series of academic-based camps at Pennsylvania College of Technology included enough information to satisfy minds hungry for challenge, while not forgetting that it IS summer.

Barbara Helen Williams A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday for Barbara Helen Williams, a professor emeritus at Penn College, who died Monday.

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.

Pride among the ruins Enjoying a cross-cultural experience Thirty-nine students from the ACH 270 (European Sustainable Building, Historical Architecture and Art) class joined two faculty members on a recent nine-day, four-city educational tour of Italy. The students – accompanied on their May 18-26 adventure by Naim N. Jabbour, assistant professor of architectural technology, and Daniel L.

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.

Michael J. Fonti (left), of Wayne, N.J., and Patrick T. McCaffery, of Carbondale, help beautify the Susquehanna Riverwalk ... ... and join Robert W. Klingerman (left), of Langhorne, for a photo with the bronze "Wood Hick" statue. Brandon P. Boyce, of Clearfield, is among the civic-minded students scouring the levee for refuse. Andrew L.

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.

John Michael Sabga, left, and Tarik Laroche From the Spring 2016 One College Avenue magazine: Long before becoming Wildcat soccer teammates, John Michael Sabga and Tarik Laroche shared a “football” field in Trinidad. Read more in "Unexpected Reunion."

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.