Training Arena

The training arena has carefully mapped out stations where students can practice construction techniques. Concrete and asphalt students can actually pour the material, set forms and do demolition. A 50-foot trench allows students to learn to lay pipe; there is scaffolding for mason tenders and an area for students to learn about environmental services such as asbestos or hazardous waste removal.

Another training station has 4-foot-high concrete walls at the perimeter of the space where students will practice piling, grading and leveling dirt against it. A 14-foot-high mezzanine along one end will serve as a mock roadway, where students will build forms and erect concrete piers and a bridge to connect with the mock on-ramp.