Residential Construction
Residential Construction is a half year (20 week) course. The course will go into the processes involved with building and maintaining a house. Students will learn everything from buying, planning, building, and maintaining a house. Click on the links below to stay up to date with course content, handouts, projects, and presentations.
OUR PROJECTS

What is Construction?
What is the construction industry. Diving in with hands-on practice

Designing and Planning a Project
What goes into planning a construction project

Tools/ People/ Processes of Construction
The seven elements of construction

The Block Plan
Architects don't think of buildings in isolation

Hands-on Practice
Gaining practice in all forms of house construction. Foundations, walls, utilities and roofs.

The Site Plan
The location of the land and how a building sits on the land is just as important as how it looks, who uses it, or how it stands up.

Details and Maintainence
Trim work and Maintaining a house

The Floor Plan
How a building is laid out

Capstone
Shed/ Gazebo/ Playhouse/ A large construction project will be built.
What is Construction?
Light Construction
Commercial Construction
Industrial Construction
Civil Construction
Tools, People, and Processes of Construction
-The 7 Elements of Construction
People
Careers in Construction
Time
Information
Construction Management (making bids)
Construction Stories
(arch handbook)
Tools/ Machines/ Equipment
Capital
Energy
Topographic Map creation
Pop-up Buildings
The location of the land and how a building sits on the land is just as important as how it looks, who uses it, or how it stands up.
The Site Plan
Sunlight Model Write-up


How a building is laid out
The Floor Plan
Hands-on Practice
Laying out a foundation
