This Career Cluster® is focused on careers in designing, planning, managing, building, and maintaining the built environment.
The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.
The Building Trades in Construction Technology program provides students with the opportunity to develop technical skills in in the building trades within the construction industry. Students will develop skills in the areas of construction including safety, proper use of hand and power tools, blueprint reading, framing, floor systems, finish carpentry, exterior finish applications, fundamental design techniques, identifying material properties and hardware, manufacturing processes, and applying basic principles of plumbing and electrical.
The Design Drafting program provides students with the principles of technical drafting and design concepts. Areas of study include sketching, dimensioning and annotation, construction and engineering documentation, 3D modeling, problem solving, critiquing, and team building.
The heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration program provides students with the opportunity to develop technical skills that are used in the HVACR industry. Areas include an introduction to HVACR, trade mathematics, thermodynamics, components of the refrigeration cycle, basic electricity, introduction to heating and combustion, piping principles, soldering and brazing, compressors, refrigerants, and metering devices.
Students who started the program of study in or prior to the 2022-23 school year will complete the program sequence as stated in the 2021-22 CTE Course Catalog. The Level 3 course for students who started the program of study in or prior to the 2022-23 school year will be offered through the 2024-25 school year.
Any materials needed to complete these courses may be requested by emailing cteinfo@doe.nv.gov.