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HBI Leads Efforts to Promote Careers in Home Building
Participants at the National Career Clusters Institute’s Fourth Annual Conference in Phoenix on June 12-14 discussed strategies to convey to state and local educators the importance of including architecture and construction programs in their schools’ core curriculums.
The presentation, which was hosted by the Home Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of NAHB, also emphasized the need for educators to develop partnerships with the residential construction industry to encourage students to consider careers in the industry.
HBI is the leader of the Architecture and Construction (A&C) Career Cluster and has been widening its efforts to promote home building careers through its new “Make It Happen” campaign and www.buildingcareers.org Web site.
The A&C Career Cluster is responsible for bringing together secondary and post-secondary educators with industry representatives from commercial, industrial and residential construction, as well as architecture.
Joining HBI on the A&C Career Cluster National Advisory Committee are the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education and the Nebraska Department of Education, among several others.
“Our goal is to let young people know that home building has a place for them no matter what their talents or skills, whether they want to be an architect or interior designer, or are interested in construction management or land acquisition,” said HBI Chairman Mike Sivage. “A great method of achieving this promotion is to combine the efforts of the educational and industrial sectors. That is what the Architecture and Construction Career Cluster does.”
The A&C Career Cluster will meet again next month to weigh the results of a recently conducted Web-based survey on knowledge and skills, as well as review Pathway Plans of Study, which serve as study guidelines to take students from 9th grade through post secondary education.
For more information on the Architecture and Construction Career Cluster, e-mail Deanna Lewis at HBI, or call her at 800-795-7955 x8927.
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