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College Cascade Campus where two buildings and an underground parking garage is be constructed along North Albina Avenue.
Construction also a Learning Zone
Cascade campus expansion includes students
Construction workers at Portland
C om m unity C o lleg e’s Cascade
Campus are rolling out the red car­
pet for a pre-apprenticeship class.
On a recent cloudy winter morn­
ing, Jacob McKay, the Cascade su­
perintendent for Hoffman Construc­
tion, and Derrick Beneville, project
manager for Hoffman, welcomed the
Trades Preparation class of 25 stu­
dents onto the north Portland job
site to get a tour of the work. The
tour helps show
* students what kinds
of jobs are on a construction site
and, hopefully, inspire them to pick
a career.
“It’s fantastic,” M cKay said.
“I’ve worked on probably five to six
campuses now. It’s always been a
priority when you’re at a university
or a college campus to bring people
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in and help facilitate the learning
process. These people we talked to
today are looking to get involved in
working on our job sites and we
really need that. So, as a company,
and personally, we want to support
any kind of knowledge passing that
we can and we appreciate the op­
portunity to do so.”
McKay and Beneville guided the
students around the job site, which
takes up one city block between
North Mississippi and North Albina
avenues. Part of the $40 million bond
capital construction at Cascade, the
work will produce a three-story aca­
demic building and adjacent stu­
dent center on top of a single-level
underground parking structure.
The whole area has been exca­
vated and at the time of the tour
crews were readying to pour sup­
port concrete slabs. As they walked
around the edge of the site, stu­
dents had a bird’s eye view of all the
workers.
Hawaii native Paul Pagatpatan has
been in the course for more than three
weeks. He’s using it to see what’s out
there and keep his options open for
what he wants to do. While on the
tour, he zeroed in on the surveyor and
crane operator jobs.
“Once you see it up close you get
a better idea of what it is you are
about to go out and do in the world,”
Pagatpatan said. “I saw how all these
little pieces go together to form the
big picture. There was a lot of infor­
mation that was given out there. It’s
definitely more interesting than it is
in the classroom because you get to
see how it all fits.”
T h at’s exactly what K atrina
Cloud, PCC’s apprenticeship and
trades specialist, wants her students
to do. She is in charge of the field
trips that the pre-apprenticeship
students take to job sites around
the metro area.
“We can use the construction
site in our backyard as a learning
tool and classroom environment for
them,” said Cloud, who regularly
partners with Hoffman to have
classes visit their construction sites
all over Portland. “Every single day
there is a different environment for
them; something different we can
show them. It’s a fabulous opportu­
nity for Hoffman to be supporting
the school like that.”