16 Credits

This certificate prepares students to find employment with residential specialty and/or general contractor whose primary focus is foundations and/or concrete flatwork. The core skills acquired are location and forming concrete foundations for houses and constructing them level, plumb and square and to code or engineered specifications. In addition, students will develop skills with specialty tools and material related to foundation and/or flatwork, as well as how to calculate, order and place concrete in forms and finish specifications. This certificate also meets two of the CEATT (Carpenters Employers Apprenticeship Training Trust) Preferred Enrollment and Advance Placement Requirements.

Contact: Robert Bean, rbean@greenriver.edu

Program Website:

Carpentry Technology | https://www.greenriver.edu/students/academics/areas-of-interest/program-maps/trades-industrial-tech-aviation-natural-resources/carpentry-technology/index.html

Program Outcomes:

Students who successfully complete this program will be able to:

1. Be employed as a carpenter helper or a union carpentry apprenticeship program.
2. Demonstrate efficiency, safety, and accuracy in the completion of carpentry tasks.
3. Use all basic hand and power tools related to carpentry.
4. Form and pour a typical foundation for a basic home.
5. Frame the wooden structure for a basic single-story home.
6. Install all basic interior trim components for a home.
7. Install all basic exterior trim components for a home.
8. Read and interpret basic architectural residential prints
9. Calculate, layout and install basic stairs and components.
10. Calculate, install and sheath typical stick-framed roof structures.
11. Build a basic kitchen base cabinet to within 1/32” of all given dimensions
12. Form and pour typical concrete slabs.
13. Estimate materials and supplies to build a basic single story residential home.