Building Construction Technology - Associate of Applied Science Degree

Portland Community College

Construction is a huge industry with a wide variety of career options, great earnings potential, and a solid future for years to come.

The best hands-on in Oregon also delivers a degree: our associate degree in Building Construction Technology combines realistic with excellent classroom instruction in the latest materials, methods, and sustainable building practices.

We split our time between our fully-equipped woodworking shop, which contains all the tools, large and small, that any carpenter or cabinet maker would put on their list. Whether it’s learning how to operate our industrial-grade planers, our joiners, our state-of-the-art SawStop table saws, or the litany of handheld power tools in our tool room, there is no limit to what we can build in this facility. When we build big, we head outdoors to our construction yard, a fully serviced exterior classroom big enough to have several ''houses'' in foundations, and several more in finish work, or being remodeled.