District closed for Independence Day
It’s Construction Inclusion Week 2022, and our construction management partners at Turner met Thursday with Albany High School seniors taking advanced carpentry classes to talk about the burgeoning fields of construction trades and construction management.
Construction Inclusion Week is an industry-wide effort to effort to improve diversity and inclusion in the construction industry.
Turner’s Kevin Alexandre, Beth DiBattista and Hannah Bagshaw quizzed students about their knowledge of the construction industry. They each talked about their jobs at Turner and the overall salary and career opportunities in the field.
Their visit was capped off by an exercise that challenged students to build a structure from Legos, with students taking on real-world roles in the process. One student was project manager (responsible for the schedule and budget), another was superintendent (directing the work) and the rest were crew members (people like carpenters, plumbers and so on who perform the work).
The students – all are taking Construction 3 with Art Erbe – walked away with a new appreciation of the knowledge and coordination a building project requires from start to finish.
