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A general term referring to one of the many construction specialties.
What is a Craft or trade?
A trained and skilled individual who designs and builds things. Craft professionals conform to the technical and ethical standards of their trade.
What is a Craft professional?
The transportation, water, electrical, and telecommunications systems that allow communities and countries to operate.
What is Infrastructure?
An agency of the US Department of Labor with the mission to establish and enforce safe working conditions for the US workforce.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
The practice of minimizing negative impacts to Earth’s climate and natural environment.
What is Sustainability?
Construction practices that involve the creation of structures that adhere to sustainability principles.
What is Green Construction?
Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or reduce injuries.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
The use of computers to digitally sketch construction designs, allowing other people to see how aspects of a structure would look and work together when built.
What is Computer-aided design (CAD)?
A process in which software reads computer files containing building data to create a virtual picture of a facility before it is built. BIM objects represent many dimensions of construction, and allow builders to adjust the plans prior to beginning actual construction.
What is Building information modeling (BIM)?
Provides a 3D model of a construction site and allows users to directly immerse themselves into the virtual space. This tool enables multiple people to envision the final product, feel what it is like to be in the space, and identify any issues before work begins.
What is Virtual Reality (VR)?
An approach to education that pays trainees wages for work completed as part of an on-the-job learning (OJL) program.
What is Earn as You Learn?
A program in which you gain valuable skills on the job under the instruction of more experienced professionals, often making money as you obtain training.
A category of construction distinguished by specific types of work, materials, equipment, and skills.
What is a Sector?
This individual oversees many parts of a construction project, including resource management, budgeting, code adherence, quality assurance, and construction materials.
What is a Contractor?
This individual or company is the initiator of the project who usually finances the building endeavor.
What is the Project Owner?
This business employs craft professionals who have specialized skills needed to complete a particular part of the construction project.
What is a Subcontractor or Specialty Contractor?
Also called foreman, this supervisory role oversees a crew of craft professionals. It is the crew leader’s job to make sure that work is completed correctly and on time. This individual is also responsible for the safety and work of those under them.
What is a Crew Leader?
This individual manages day-to-day activities on a construction site and supervises work performed by the subcontractors.
What is a Site Superintendent?
This individual oversees the planning and delivery of construction projects on time and within budget.
What is a Project Manager?
These are programs offered in high school and technical education centers that allow students to explore career options available in construction.
What are Career and Technical Education Programs
This sector of construction includes professionals who build bridges, roadways, airports, tunnels and dams. It is often referred to as horizontal construction.
What is the Heavy Civil / Infrastructure Sector?
This construction sector includes design, construction, and maintenance of schools, government buildings, medical facilities, hotels, sports arenas and stadiums, shopping centers, and large office buildings.
What is the Commercial Sector?
This construction sector includes construction of public works such as manufacturing plants, oil refineries, electrical generating plants, chemical processing plants, and large mills.
What is the Industrial Sector?
This construction sector includes design, construction, and maintenance of single-family homes, multi-family home such as apartment buildings, public housing developments, and even separate garages and sheds.
What is the Residential Sector?
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