The Construction Career Cluster focuses on professions involved in designing, planning, managing, and executing projects in the built environment. It emphasizes sustainable building practices to ensure that structures are both environmentally responsible and resilient. Careers in this Cluster are pivotal in creating durable infrastructure that meets present needs without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their own, covering a range of roles from architects and engineers to construction managers and skilled tradespeople.

The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.

• Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards

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.

• Program Standards - Building Trades in Construction Technology with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources - Building Trades in Construction Technology with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

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.

• Program Standards - Design Drafting with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources - Design Drafting with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

The Electronic Technology program provides students the opportunity to develop technical skills that are used throughout the electronic industry. Areas of study include safety, tools, direct current (DC), alternating current (AC), schematics, soldering, measuring electricity, Ohm's/Watt's/Kirchhoff's Laws, electronic circuits, and digital theory.

• Program Standards - Electronic Technology (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Electronic Technology (pdf)

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.

• Program Standards - HVACR with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources - HVACR with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

The Metalworking program provides students with instruction in the various metalworking processes. Areas of study include safety procedures, print reading, measurement, properties of metals, machine operation, metal-fabricating methods, industrial applications, and problem-solving. Students will also be introduced to the principles of metallurgy, metal lathe operation, forging methods, casting process, welding, and heat-treating procedures.

• Program Standards – Metalworking (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Metal Working (pdf)

The Welding Technology program provides students with instruction in the industry standard welding practices. Areas of study include print reading, measurement, properties of metals, shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), and thermal cutting.

• Program Standards - Welding Technology with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources - Welding Technology with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)