Program Overview
At Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Construction Technology is a broad program where you combine various disciplines with work-based experience. As a Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Tiger you ultimately build an entire house with your own two hands, becoming familiar with all phases of residential carpentry from the foundation to the roof.
Fort Hays Tech | Northwest prepares you for employment the day you graduate. Our up-to-date curriculum transforms directly alongside the industry’s green building and energy efficient standards.
In only two years at Fort Hays Tech | Northwest, you will have the necessary job skills and related technical information require in the construction and cabinet-making trades. Upon completion of the program, you will enter the trade with a thorough and versatile understanding of the profession, as well as the opportunity to obtain a contractor’s license and/or advance to the level of master or journeyman tradesman.
The Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Construction Technology program is in alignment with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CIP code 46.0201: Carpentry/Carpenter. A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Includes instruction in technical mathematics, framing, construction materials and selection, job estimating, blueprint reading, foundations and roughing-in, finish carpentry techniques, and applicable codes and standards.
