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Pathway: Architectural Design

Get the Facts: Architectural Design is: College and Career: Architectural and Civil Drafters prepare detailed • High skill There are a number of options for education and drawings of architectural and structural features • High wage training beyond high school, depending on your of buildings or drawings and topographical relief • High demand career goals. In Utah, the following colleges offer maps used in civil engineering projects, such as Occupation Outlook: programs in Architectural Design. highways, bridges, and public works. Use knowledge of building materials, engineering practices, • BYUI – AAS Architectural Technology and mathematics to complete drawings. • WSU – BS Design Engineering Technology; The Utah statewide annual median wage: Architects plan and design structures, such as BIS Architecture, Engineering & Construction private residences, office buildings, theaters, Technology; AAS Design Engineering Tech AS Architectural/Civil Drafter factories, and other structural property. $47,120 • U of U – BS Architectural Studies; BS Urban Architecture students learn the fundamentals of BS Architect architecture design, technology, history and $71,150 Ecology; BS Multi-Disciplinary Design theory. • UVU – AS, AAS Drafting; CP Architectural Design Technology; CP Civil Design Tech; CP Structural Design Technology Workforce Trends: Sample Career Occupations: • SUU – BS Engineering Technology- Employment of Architects and Architectural • Architectural/Civil Drafter Architecture/Civil Design emphasis; Drafters is projected to GROW 7 percent • Architect BS Engineering Technology-CAD/CAM from 2014 to 2024, about as fast as the average • Urban Planner emphasis; AAS Engineering Technology- for all occupations. • Building Surveyor CAD/CAM Technology; CC Civil Design • Architectural Manager Those with up-to- date technical skills • USU/E – CC Engineering Drafting & Design —including a strong grasp of CAD and BIM— Technology and experience in sustainable design will have an advantage. • SLCC – AS Architecture; AAS Architectural Technology; AAS Architectural Tech-CAD/ BIM emphasis

Get the Facts: Cabinetmaking/Millwork is: College and Career: Cabinetmakers cut, shape, and assemble • High demand There are a number of options for education and wooden articles or set up and operate a variety Occupation Outlook: training beyond high school, depending on your of woodworking machines, such as power saws career goals. In Utah, two colleges offer a degree and jointers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or in Cabinetmaking/Millwork. They are: to fabricate parts for wood products. • SLCC – CC Cabinetmaking & Furniture Furniture Finishers shape, finish, and refinish Construction damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high- The Utah statewide annual median wage: • UVU - AS Pre Major, AAS, CCnCabinetry & grade furniture to specified color or finish. Cabinetmaker $34,330 Architectural Woodwork

Furniture Finisher $34,620 Workforce Trends: Employment of Cabinetmakers and Furniture Sample Career Occupations: Finishers is projected to GROW 4% from 2014 to 2024. • Cabinetmaker • Finish Carpenter Those who have advanced skills, including • Furniture Finisher the ability to use computer-controlled • Cabinet Assembler machinery and good math skills should have • Cabinet Installation the best job opportunities. • Furniture Maker

Get the Facts: Construction Management: College and Career: Construction Managers plan, direct, or • High skill There are a number of options for education coordinate activities concerned with the • Medium to High wage and training beyond high school, depending on construction and maintenance of structures, • High demand your career goals. facilities, and systems. Participate in the Occupation Outlook: conceptual development of a construction • BYU – BS Construction Management project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. • BYUI – BS Construction Management The Utah statewide annual median wage: Building Inspectors inspect structures using • WSU – BS, AAS Construction Management Technology engineering skills to determine structural Construction Manager $76,170 soundness and compliance with specifications, • UVU – BS, AAS Construction Management; building codes, and other regulations. Building Inspector $58,580 Inspections may be limited to a specific area, AAS, CC Building Inspection Technology such as electrical systems or plumbing. Carpenter $35,600 • SUU – BS, AAS, CC Construction Carpenters construct, erect, install, or repair Management structures and fixtures made of wood, such as concrete forms, building frameworks, window Sample Career Occupations: • USU/E – CC Building Construction & and door frames, and hardwood floors. Construction Management • Construction Manager • Building inspector • SLCC – AS Construction Management; Workforce Trends: • Carpenter AAS Construction Management & Sustainable • Restoration Specialist Employment of Construction Managers, Building; CC Sustainable Building • Subcontractor Building Inspectors and Carpenters is Construction projected to GROW 5-8 percent from 2014 to 2024, about as fast as the average for all • SNOW – AS, AAS, CP Building & occupations. Construction Management

Those with a bachelor’s (BS) degree coupled • MATC – Apprenticeships in Construction with construction experience will have the best Craft Skilled Laborer and Form Builder- job prospects. Rough Carpenter.

Get the Facts: Facilities Management is: College and Career: Facility and Property Management is the • High skill There are a number of options for education and development and management of all types of • Medium wage training beyond high school, depending on your real estate, facilities, and properties from original • High demand career goals. In Utah, three colleges offer a degree design and construction, through the different Occupation Outlook: in Facilities Management. They are: phases of occupation, including remodeling, to the final demise of the property. It is managing • BYU – BS Facilities Management the real estate to fulfill the purpose for which it is intended. • WSU – BS Construction Management Average starting salary for a Technology—Facilities Management emphasis Whether it’s providing services in a multi-tenant Facilities Management graduate is skyscraper, overseeing the infrastructure of a $53,000 • UVU – BS Technology Management – manufacturing plant, maintaining a university, Facilities Management emphasis managing a sports event, or operating a hospital complex-- the facilities manager does it all. Sample Career Occupations: • Property Manager • Sports and Event Manager Workforce Trends: • Facilities Engineer • Campus Facilities Manager Facilities Management positions are expected • Site Manager to INCREASE 12% in the next decade.

Students having meaningful work experience and internships during their education will have better job prospects.

Although ALA makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of this information, it reserves the right to make changes asmay be required. Students should consult the specific college advisement center with further questions. Pathway: Architecture & Construction These programs are a good fit if you like to design and build things, enjoy working as a team, can problem solve, are a good leader, and have good communication skills

Architectural Design is: Facilities Management is: The Utah statewide annual median wage: Average starting salary for a Facilities Management graduate is $53,000

AS Architectural/Civil Drafter $47,120 Facility and Property Management is the development and management of all types of real estate, facilities, and properties from original design and construction, through the different phases of occupation, including remodeling, to the final demise of Architect $71,150 the property. It is managing the real estate to fulfill the purpose for which it is intended. BS Architectural and Civil Drafters prepare detailed drawings of architectural and Whether it’s providing services in a multi-tenant skyscraper, overseeing the infrastructure structural features of buildings or drawings and topographical relief maps used of a manufacturing plant, maintaining a university, managing a sports event, or operating a in civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, and public works. hospital complex-- the facilities manager does it all. Use knowledge of building materials, engineering practices, and mathematics to complete drawings.

Architects plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property. Architecture students Construction Management: learn the fundamentals of architecture design, technology, history and theory. The Utah statewide annual median wage:

Construction Manager $76,170

Building Inspector $58,580

Cabinetmaking/Millwork is: Carpenter $35,600 Construction Managers plan, direct, or coordinate activities concerned with the The Utah statewide annual median wage: construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in Cabinetmaker the conceptual development of a construction $34,330 project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Furniture Finisher $34,620 Building Inspectors inspect structures using engineering skills to determine Cabinetmakers cut, shape, and assemble wooden articles or set up and structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and operate a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws and jointers other regulations. Inspections may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products. systems or plumbing.

Furniture Finishers shape, finish, and refinish damaged, worn, or used Carpenters construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish. wood, such as concrete forms, building frameworks, window and door frames, and hardwood floors.