The Alaska Contractor - Summer 2008
The Alaska Contractor - Summer 2008
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Juneau’s “in school” program of the Juneau Construction<br />
Academy, served more than 422 students in construction and<br />
construction-related classes this school year. <strong>The</strong>se classes included:<br />
Creative Woods, Computer-Assisted Drafting, Basic Construction,<br />
Metals and Small Engine Repair. Some 43 students participated in after<br />
school classes in Basic Construction, Computer-Assisted Drafting and Welding.<br />
In February, a select team of five Juneau Douglas High School students won<br />
first place in the National Residential Construction Competition in Orlando, Fla.<br />
(See <strong>Alaska</strong> <strong>Contractor</strong> Spring <strong>2008</strong>, Pg. 69)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Southeast Regional Resource Center, SERRC, facilitated the adult training<br />
program. SERRC screened 98 applicants and trained 32 adults in Basic Construction,<br />
Drywall, Welding, Plumbing and Heating, First Aid and CPR, OSHA 10,<br />
Scaffolding and Forklift Safety classes. Training was coordinated with UAS-Juneau,<br />
BY CARIN SMOLIN<br />
Adult student Alphonozo Hampton grinding<br />
away in the academy’s welding program. He is<br />
now employed with Channel Construction at<br />
the Greens Creek Mine.<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong> Works Partnership and local<br />
unions. <strong>The</strong> program provided assistance<br />
with job placement and apprenticeship<br />
applications. Charlie Carlson is<br />
the SERRC admissions coordinator.<br />
As a residential contractor and former<br />
SEABIA president, Russ McDougal has<br />
already experienced the benefit of hiring<br />
a Construction Academy graduate.<br />
“I was very pleased with his attitude,<br />
desire to learn and his work ethic,”<br />
he said.<br />
Juneau Construction Academy partners<br />
include the Juneau School District,<br />
SERRC, UAS-Juneau AWP, AGC of<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong>, Southeast <strong>Alaska</strong> Building Industry<br />
Association, <strong>Alaska</strong> Department<br />
of Labor and Workforce Development,<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong> Plumbers and Pipefitters Local<br />
262 and Juneau Building Trades Council/IBEW<br />
1547.<br />
Carin Smolin is the career and technical<br />
education coordinator for the Juneau School<br />
District.<br />
Bob Hammer,<br />
president of the<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong> State Home<br />
BY BARB ROPER<br />
Building Association,<br />
ASHBA, and a Kenai contractor,<br />
remembers a time when vocational<br />
education students built an entire<br />
house with the guidance of a master<br />
journeyman in the construction trades.<br />
That memory has become a vision<br />
for the future as Construction Academy<br />
partners work together to bring<br />
hands-on construction training to the<br />
Kenai Peninsula.