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Henrico Workforce & Career Development

Summer Building Trades

Summer Building Trades

Logo for Summer Building Trades featuring a blue and black house roof graphic above the bold text 'SBT'.

The Summer Building Trades Program lets students experience what it means to help build a house from the ground to the roof for 6 weeks during the summer. During this time, they can get experience in masonry, electricity, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, and welding while building an actual house that was started by other students from the two Advanced Career Education Centers (ACE) during the regular school year.

The Summer Building Trades Program is for rising 10th and 11th grade students.

Registration coming March 16th!

  • Three construction workers collaborate to build a stone column outside a beige building.
  • Two workers in yellow hard hats remove old siding from the side of a building.
  • Three construction workers collaborate on a building project outdoors.
  • A large brick and stucco sign reads "1003 E. ACE Center at Highland Springs Springer Preschool Academy" on a sunny day.
  • A group of workers wearing hard hats position a large white water storage tank indoors.
  • A construction instructor guides students on how to wrap pipe thread tape around a brass valve in a workshop.
  • A group of students wearing hard hats observe a large white H2home water tank in a building under construction.
  • A diverse group of people wearing hard hats work together to lift and move a large white water tank at a construction site.

Registration is limited to the first 50 students.

Take this fun course and earn one high school credit while learning about Electricity •  Masonry , Carpentry, Heating/Air Conditioning, and Cabling/Networking

For questions, please contact Erin Hurley, 804-246-4108 for the Department of Workforce & Career Development (CTE)

Henrico’s Career & Technical Education can provide students with this opportunity because of the hard work of the Henrico County Vocational/Technical Education Foundation. The mission of the foundation and our House Building Project is to provide real-life, hands-on experience to students involved in the housing industry and associated programs in Henrico County Public Schools. To find out more about the foundation, please click here for HCVTEF. 

The Summer Building Trades Program helps students work together and teaches them the basic skills, with the help of our instructors, to build a house that a family can live in one day. Once these students complete this program, we hope they will want to sign up with one of our trades programs at one of the ACE Centers to learn a specific skill trade in their junior and senior year in high school and earn a certification in that trade. Either way, these students will take away skills and experiences that will stay with them forever.

Take this fun course and earn one high school credit while learning about:

  • Electricity
  • Masonry
  • Carpentry
  • Heating/Air Conditioning
  • Cabling/Networking
  • Welding

Ask your counselor