The Alaska Contractor - Summer 2008
The Alaska Contractor - Summer 2008
The Alaska Contractor - Summer 2008
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A back injury forced Lynnette Warren to leave<br />
her career as a journeyman carpenter in 2001.<br />
She received training for a new career in<br />
construction management at UAA and was<br />
one of four people in May who received a<br />
Bachelor of Science in Construction<br />
Management degree from the university.<br />
“We were the guinea pigs,” she<br />
laughed. “For it being a new course right<br />
out of the box, they do a pretty good<br />
job. Over time, overall, it will improve<br />
and be a program to be proud of for the<br />
university and the state of <strong>Alaska</strong>.”<br />
Construction is a good career in<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong>, she said.<br />
“Look around us,” Warren said.<br />
“In the 30 years I’ve lived here, things<br />
have changed so much. <strong>The</strong> construction<br />
industry is just growing leaps and<br />
bounds. <strong>The</strong> gas pipeline goes through,<br />
you don’t even want to know what<br />
the construction is going to be like.<br />
I mean, when the gas pipeline goes<br />
through, we’ll have probably another<br />
100,000 people here in town added to<br />
what we already got. So construction,<br />
it ain’t going away.<br />
“We don’t have enough stuff to support<br />
the people we have here already,<br />
so it’s going to continually grow and<br />
we’ll just keep growing with it.”<br />
Tracy Kalytiak is a freelance writer in<br />
the Palmer area.