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Commercial Construction
New for 2012-2013!
Commercial Construction will teach you how to maintain, repair, construct, and remodel commercial buildings in a real world, practical setting. The program includes the fundamentals of blueprint reading, site preparation, and training in commercial carpentry, plumbing, wiring, roofing, drywall installation, concrete, masonry, metals, curtain-walls and finishes.
Credits
High School Credit Junior Year
Construction Trades: 2.5, Technology: .5, Geometry: 1.0
Potential College Semester Hour Credit
Cuyahoga Community College: 9.0
College Tech Prep: 6.0
Construction Trades: 2.5, Technology: .5, Geometry: 1.0
Potential College Semester Hour Credit
Cuyahoga Community College: 9.0
College Tech Prep: 6.0
Program Resources
Teacher: Paul Yuravak
Email: pyuravak@polaris.edu
Education:
24 hr. CTE, Kent State University
Years at Polaris: 8
Industry Experience: I worked as an electrician, plumber, concrete mason, sider, roofer and finish carpenter. I specialized in framing and spent a year as an assistant superintendent.
Interests/Hobbies: Playing with my four kids and building custom motorcyclesTeacher: Tom Chevalier
Skills
- Residential Carpentry
- Floor, wall, and roof framing
- Stair building
- Material estimating
- Residential Wiring
- Wiring basic circuits
- Drawing and reading schematics
- Residential Plumbing
- Fundamentals of the drain, waste, and vent system
- Fundamentals of the potable water system
- Fundamentals of the storm water/foundation drainage system
- Practical shop activities in the following areas:
- Drywall
- Roofing
- Siding
- Door and window installation
- Overview of the concrete and masonry trades
- Blueprint reading
- Related mathematics
- Personal, shop, and work-site safety practices
Equipment
- Power drills
- Saber saw
- Transit
- Jointer
- Planer
- Table saw
- Radial arm saw
- Power miter saw
- Pneumatic tools
Career Options
- Carpenter
- Electrician
- Plumber
- Roofer
- Drywall installer
- Maintenance worker in schools, industry, hospitals, etc.
- Union/non-union apprentice
Future Opportunities with Further Education
- Company owner
- Professional builder
- Estimator
- Construction foreman
- Construction superintendent
- Construction manager
- Building inspector
- Building manager
- Architect/engineer
