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At Orleans Technical Institute, you can earn your Trades Diploma in just 6 months and take the first step toward an exciting career in Carpentry. Learn construction, installation, and renovation skills for an array of opportunities—inside and out—working with wood and other materials. Students experience building a house to scale and tackling framing, drywall, rough and fine
finishing, siding, roofing, and door and window installation.

Program Objective

Learn hands-on new construction skills. Students build a house to scale in order to learn framing, drywall, rough and fine finishing, siding, shingled roofing, and door and window installation. Students construct a full size deck and staircase. Training includes blueprint reading, safety practices, and trade mathematics.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates are prepared for entry-level employment as carpenters, carpentry assistants, carpentry apprentices, maintenance carpenters, finish carpenters, house repairers, door installers, cabinet and trim installers, lay-out workers, framers, assemblers, and woodworkers.

Career Outlook According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment of carpenters is expected to increase by
13 percent during the 2008–18 decade, as fast as the average for all occupations.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Occupational Outlook Handbook,” 2010-11 Edition.

Industry Certification

Students in this program are eligible to receive industry recognized certification from the Residential Construction Academy (RCA) of the Home Builders Institute upon successful completion of certification exams.

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