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Explore the Architecture and Construction Career Cluster

Are you good at making designs or models?
Can you visualize projects in your mind?
Do you enjoy beautiful and historic buildings?
Are you good with plans and blueprints?
Are you good with your hands?
Would you enjoy designing a park or garden?

If you answered yes to two or more of the questions above, you'll probably enjoy exploring the architecture and construction career cluster. This cluster includes jobs such as:

  • Architect
  • Electrician
  • Architectural restorer
  • Brick mason
  • Surveyor
  • Landscape Architect
  • Urban Planner
  • Drafter

Cluster Definition:

Jobs in the architecture and construction career cluster involve designing, planning, managing, building, and maintaining the built environment.

Career Pathways in Architecture and Construction:

A career pathway is an area of concentration within a career cluster. Each pathway contains a group of careers requiring similar academic and technical skills as well as similar industry certifications or postsecondary education. The architecture and construction career cluster has three pathways: preconstruction and design, construction, and maintenance and operations.

Preconstruction and Design:
This pathway encompasses all the jobs that are done before a project can be built, including architect, civil engineer, cost estimator, contractor, developer, highway engineer, surveyor, specification writer, and urban planner.

Construction:
The construction pathway includes all the jobs involved in actual construction, from demolition to finish carpentry. Jobs include bricklayer, construction worker, demolition worker, heavy equipment operator, drywall installer, mason, lather, floor covering installer, pipefitter, rigger, and welder.

Maintenance and Operations:
This pathway contains all the jobs related to maintaining, repairing, and upgrading structures; such as electrician, plumber, painter, HVAC mechanic, building inspector, and architectural historian.

Click here for a visual representation of the architecture and construction career cluster.

Print and Internet Resources:

These Print and Internet Resources offer references for career cluster exploration, including trade, professional, and business associations, government departments and agencies, labor unions, and cluster-specific career Web sites.

Architecture and Construction Career Cluster Print and Internet Resources

 

 

 

 

Courses Available in this Cluster

 
  • Carpentry
  • Drafting

carpentry

The Carpentry program begins with the core program developed by the National Center for Construction Education and Research. Core includes areas such as safety, math for construction, power and hand tool use. Students will also complete the 10 hour OSHA certification course. Classroom instruction and practical experience are combined in the actual construction of single family houses. The program partners with the local Habitat for Humanity and The CDBIA (Charlotte-Desoto Building Industry Association). Students are members of Future Builders of America (FBA) and compete for scholarship opportunities. Internships with local employers are possible for advanced level students. This program is a 3 year program and a total of 1050 clock hours. Course completion allows articulation to any community college in Florida equal to 3 credit hours (held in escrow).

The OCP's that you can earn in this program are:

A. Carpenter Helper
B. Trim and Finish Carpenter
C. Rough Carpenter
D. Carpenter

drafting

Train today at CTC for a career in drafting.There are three programs to choose from. Each program is taught in a classroom laboratory with individual work stations. Classroom instruction is delivered through lecture, individualized instruction, team building exercises, simulated work assignments, and "live" work projects. All equipment and software are current with needs of industry. Students learn basic board drafting along with Computer Assisted Drafting and Design (CADD). Field experiences to local construction sites are included in instruction. CTC offers three different areas in the drafting profession:

Architectural Drafting
Students in this class have individualized computer stations using the most current Autocad software. They advance through Blueprint Reader, Drafting Assistant, Drafting Detailer, CADD Drafter, and Architectual Drafter. The work in this class will include updating existing drawings, completing sets of plans from sketches prepared by the Architect/Builder, and creating your own drawings. This is a 1900 hour program.

The OCP's that you can earn in this program are:

A. Blueprint Reader
B. Drafting Assistant
C. Architectural Detailer
D. CAD Drafter
E. Architectural Drafter

Mechanical Drafting  
Students in this class have individualized computer stations using the most current Autocad software. They advance through Blueprint Reader, Drafting Assistant, Drafting Detailer, CAD Technician, and Mechanical Drafter. The work in this class includes updating existing machine drawings and completing sets of drawings from engineering sketches. This is a 1900 hour program.

The OCP's that you can earn in this program are:

A. Blueprint Reader
B. Drafting Assistant
C. Drafting Detailer
D. CAD Technician
E. Mechanical Drafter

Structural Drafting   
Students in this class have individual computer stations using the most current Autocad software. They advance through Blueprint Reader, Drafting Assisting, Cartographic Drafter, Civil Drafter, and Structral Drafter.  Plat drawings and civil maps are a part of the instruction. This is an 1800 hour program.

The OCP's that you can earn in this program are:

A. Blueprint Reader
B. Drafting Assistant
C. Cartographci Drafter
D. Civil Drafter
E. Structural Drafter

Course completion in any of the three drafting classes allows articulation to any community college in Florida equal to 12 credit hours (held in escrow).

 

 

 

Drafting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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